Show GERMANY OFFERS SEPARATE PEACE RUSSIAN AUTHOR EXPOSES PLOT OF TO PUT RUSSIA OUT OF THE WAR Offer Made to Evacuate Occupied Russian Territory Without the Expenditure of Another Drop of Russian Blood Petrograd Maxim Maxim Gorky the noted Russian author publishes a n sensational account of an attempt b by D D. the thc Bulgarian minister at Berlin to inveigle him Into clandestine negotiations for a separate peace The peace proposal Gorky Gorley declares was delivered to him at Petrograd in duplicate by two German agents actIng actIng actIng act- act Ing individually In the Uie Noval of which GorJe Gorky is the editor he prints secret dispatch occupying three columns with concrete peace proposals and although although although al al- al- al though he himself Is an almost fanatical fanatical fanatical cal advocate of peace denounces begins by proclaiming that already in January he had approached the Russian s ian ministers at Stockholm nn and with a n proposal to conclude an nn honorable peace between between be be- tween Russia and ind her foes lIe He received received re re- re- re i a rebuff Immediately after the revolution re Rizos' Rizos renewed his hits attempt attempt at at- tempt with the Russian minister at who was an un old acquaintance acquaint acquaInt- ance and obtained through the minIster minister min mm- ister a n reply from Professor Paul MI- MI lukoff then the foreign minister in tile the temporary government that there could be no question of a n separate peace Notwithstanding his two repulses representing himself as ns Russia's Russia's Rus Rus- sias sia's real cal friend now his I acquaintance Maxim Gorky Gorley He lIe attempts attempts at at- tempts to refute successively the arguments arguments arguments ments customarily used by the Russians Bus Rus sinns and the thc allies against a n separate separate separate separ separ- ate peace He offers to guarantee that Germany and Austria will not again undertake an offensive against free Russia and adds that both powers are willing to evacuate the occupied territory territory ter ter- without the expenditure of another another another an an- other drop of Russian blood He lie declares that Germany and Austria Austria Aus Aus- tria in no wise menace Russia's Hussla's new freedom He lie accuses England of ot being being beIng be be- ing the real militarist state not Germany Germany Ger Ger- Germany many and declares that Russia has no m moral oral obligation to keep her ber treaty with the allies because treaty breaking has hns been common In the present war j I II I |