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Show WORKERS FINDING OUT WHAT WORD OF GERMANY IS WORTH PETROGRAD, Wednesday, Jan. 2.--The Izvestia today gives the text of a pamphlet which the Bolsheviki are circulating cir-culating in the German lines, in which it is declared that the peace conditions submitted sub-mitted hy the-v central powers show the Austro-Germaif promises of a democratic peace to be unconscionable lies. After describing the actions of the Germans in Poland and in Lithuania in recruiting forced labor and shooting hunger hun-ger strikers, the pamphlet continues: "The German government only found support in Courland from the bated slave owners, the German barons, who have t heir prototypes in the Polish landowners." landown-ers." The document declares Germany desires de-sires to free the people on Russia's western west-ern frontier from the scope of the Russian Rus-sian revolution in order to subjugate them with German capital, impose an, Austrian monarchy on Poland and make Lithuania Lithu-ania and Courland German duchies. It concludes: "On such basis the Russian workmen's government can never enter negotiations." negotia-tions." . |