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Show RUSSIANS ARE" " 10 KEEP FAITH The Will Not Negotiate a Separate Peace With German Ger-man Government. WASHINGTON, April IS. Assurances Assur-ances reached Washington today thai under no conditions that are now conceivable con-ceivable will the provisional government govern-ment of Russia yield to the overtures from German and Austrian Socialistic representatives to negotiate a separate separ-ate peace. The entente embassies, with this assurance as-surance before them, frankly confessed confess-ed great relief. Tho gathering of Socialists So-cialists at Stockholm, known to he fomented by Germans and Austrians, was looked upon with dread and suspicion, su-spicion, and it was feared that cunning cun-ning appeals to the altruistic princi-' princi-' pies of Socialism, the universal brotherhood broth-erhood of workingmen and such considerations con-siderations might force the provisional provision-al government to consent to a separate separ-ate peace to terminate the war. It is now learned from an nuthorl-lalive nuthorl-lalive source that these apprehensions and misgivings were based upon misunderstanding mis-understanding of the aims of tho extreme ex-treme Socialistic element In Russia and of the real strength of the provisional pro-visional govornmont. So far from contemplating con-templating any peace on the basis of existing governments, tho advanced Russian Socialists want to carry their democratizing ideas by force into tho enemy countries, nnd to appeal to their brother Socialists in Austria and Germany to rise In revolt, overturn the monarchies and establish true Socialistic So-cialistic republics In their places. This movement is reported gathering gather-ing strength rapidly in Russia among the soldiers and workingmen. The formor are falling' Into line again to renew the campaign in the east and the workingmen are going back to their shops to turn out shot and shell and powder on the greatest possible scale. From every quarter comes assurance as-surance of support for the provisional government. Rehabilitation of the crippled . Rus-s.an Rus-s.an railway by a corps of more than 500 trained American railway mon will be the early result of an appeal to iho president from several of Russia's ablest engineers. The new governmont thus will be strengthened against the pressure to make a separate peace with Germany. Plans to lend the Russian government govern-ment some $2,000,000,000 out of the new $5,000,000,000 war bond issue already al-ready have been formulated, but American Am-erican aid is to go still further and make effective the expenditure of tho great sums of money tho new Russian Rus-sian democracy is to receive from the United States. nn |