| Show FREE 14 FRAME PEACE REPLY AlU ALUES MUST U l f HIO US J ll f. f DAD PARLEY n r Observer Believes ves E En Ei Entente 1 tente S Should Se Send d RepresentativeS Representatives Rep Rep- I 11 I io to C nf f 1 ence at at aBr Brest st r t Li o ok k ii n j By Bu or J J. W 1 J I Written en or u t s. s I I OPPEN COPENHAGEN Did Mb St r 1 l a aai ai l he A nan me mei interned in Russ Rus's Russian an harbors according to word r received received re re- i here today The ships I total tons The release of these ships Ii Iii i would seem to indicate the Russian Rus Rus- I 1 Isian sian governments government's 13 immediate carrying into effect of peace provisions pro pro- 1 i visions agreed upon at Brest- Brest One of the stipulations i adopted there was for immediate I release of interned civilians e 02 change of war prisoners and return of merchant vessels By y United Press Presa NEW N M V E YORK Dec 31 Ger Ger German i man mall statesmen are working to detach Russia I I permanently from the friendship of the Western Vestern powers and to turn the tl Russian republic into an exclusive field for Teutonic exploitation when the war is jg over The kaisers kaiser's plenipotentiaries ar aro ara offering g to resume trade relations with Russia at once without waiting I for tho signing of or a peace treal treaty I There Is reason to believe that German German Ger Ger- man economic experts am arc aro now in I Petrograd planning tho preliminaries j for an exchange of Russian and German German German Ger Ger- I man goods The situation on which thus f I faces America Ica and the entente powers is Js one ono requiring very delicate handling if it U e tle Germans are aro to bo be prevented from making malting serious serious headway Should German organizing capacity bo be permitted to restore some in industrial and agricultural order o out ot t of the Russian chaos It is but n natural tun to assume e that the tho Russian Hussian p people ople will willbe be grateful With this as a a. start sart the German grip on Russia might continue e to to- tobe be so ti tightened as to cause the German German German Ger Ger- man statesmen to substitute commercial commercial commer cial expansion eastward through through-Rus- us- us sit for their fast vanishing dream n of ot Mittel 1 Europa domination Anybody can cnn stand stilt still and andre de denounce de- de the jhc Jo government nt for or betraying the tho cause CRUS of the allies S. S Jt lIt lItIs I 1 Is easy to do nothing and put blind faith in fate to Rw awaken ken the Russians to the tho danger of future pro German influences But the chances are that policies of this negative character will willbe be as if playing the h time Germanys Germany's r had n come game to realize ea It seems eti that the Russians m must be consulted more noe than tho the allies have 8 consulted them 1 In Inthe 1 tho the past unfortunate year ear Russia must be shown by actual facts that is still trying trying trying-te to throttle democracy Ic and that a peace l. signed by the present rulers of Ge Germany Ger many would compel democracy to re remain r. r main maln on tho the defensive The prese present tt Russian government is beginning to show evidence nce of being of the existing Slav SIM spirit If the Bol Del demand a general conference at one neutral capital al to examine amine peace terms the allies must realize that if they decline t to be he represented Russia ma may be thrown into the ar arum arm m of Germany for a generation or more Such a a. conference might be ebb ablo to formulate terms based on or the stal- stal j of ot a democratic gO government lent ih Germany that would 1 compel tim tho j to bow to the Ii h i J ble and nd abandon their absolutist 1 power J li |
