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Show Passports Refused. PETROGRAD, Tuesday, .Tan. 1. Replying Reply-ing to the Rm-sh.n protest, the German foreign minister. Dr. von Kuehlmann, has confirmed Germany's refusal to issue passports to Hugo Haase. Georg Ledebour and Carl Kautsky. Socialists, who de- sired to go to Stockholm to attend an unofficial peace conference. Dr. von Kuehlmann stated that this refusal should not be interpreted as an act in opposition to Ihe movement for peace. The German government believed, he said, that the progress of peac- negotiations misht be hindered by an unofficial conference held Eimulta neousiy with the official negotiations. |