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Show RUSSIANS OFFER TO NEGOTIATE WITH PERSIANS LONDON, Jan. 4. The Bolsheviki foreign for-eign minister. Leon Trotzky, is said by the Petrograd correspondent of the Exchange Ex-change Telegraph company to have sent a communication to the Persian government govern-ment offering to begin negotiations for the withdrawal of Russian troops from Persian territory, provided Turkey will withdraw hers. The Russian commissioners, the correspondent corre-spondent says, have decided to negotiate with the government of Ukraine on the basis of recognition of the Ukrainian republic, re-public, provided it does not hinder military mili-tary operations against General Kaledines, the Cossack leader. It is suggested that these negotiations be held at the Smolensk or Vitebsk. According to the same correspondent, M. Kereneky, the deposed premier, has prepared an account of his services during the period of the first revolution, which will be presented to the constituent assembly. as-sembly. It includes full details of conditions con-ditions at the front during the June offensive of-fensive and the reasons why M. Kerensky decided to remove former Emperor Nick-olas Nick-olas to Siberia. In the archives of the Russian foreign office there have been discovered documents docu-ments of unusual interest dealing with negotiations between Germany and the imperial Russian government " in regard to a national (Convention to combat socialism. so-cialism. Other curious documents relating relat-ing to the origin of the war throw light on certain aspects of German poiicv These papers will be published as soon as they have been classified. |