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Show RUPTURE OF PEACE PARLEYS EXPECTED London, Jan. 16 The Dally News correspondent at Petrograd sends the following: "'The final rupture of negotiations at Brest Utovsk may be expected at any moment if, as seems probable, the German militarists continue to Impose their policy on their delegates." dele-gates." The correspondent says a dispatch from Kuban reports that the Turks have broken the armistice by landing land-ing 20,000 troops between Treblzond and Ltze and that a submarine has sunk a Russian transport. Many Bolshevik! leaders were prepared to regard a German refusal refus-al to negotiate on neutral soil as an ultimatum to break the negotiations. That It did not was due to the attitude atti-tude of Foreign Minister Trotsky, which is said to have exposed the plans ot the German militarists. Petrograd evening newspapers had a rumor that the peace negotiations were to be removed to Warsaw. The Dally News correspondent quotes the comment of the newspaper newspa-per Isvesttaron President; Wilson' message does not refer to that of the Pravda. It says that the Bolshevl-kt Bolshevl-kt regard the president's statement as a jMsibe actual help in the present pres-ent single, handed struggle with the German' diplomats-and on the order of Premier Lenlne the full text of the' speech was Immediately telegraphed tele-graphed lo Foreign Minister Trotsky at Brest Litovsk. A copy was also sent by special courier. On the other hand the speech, of Premier Lloyd George is printed by an antl-Bolshe-v'ikl newspaper under this .heading: "Leave Russia to her fate." |
