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Show ; ?' : Reports Reiterated That Germans Would Not Accept Russian Terms I PETROGPlAD, Dec. 22. Leon Trot-zky, Trot-zky, the Bolsheviki foreign minister, in addressing the Council of Soldiers' and Workmen, declared that If the German emperor ofTered "offensive" peace terms, the Russians would fight against it. "We did not overthrow czarism to kneel before the kaiser," he said. Continuing, he said: "If our country would have to accept tho kaiser's terms we would do so to rise up again jwith the German people against Ger-(man Ger-(man militarism." The report is reiterated today that the Russian delegation to the peace I conference at Bret-Litovsk has been I recalled - because ' the Germans would i not accept the Russian terms. It is the Daily Mail's correspondent in'Petro-grad in'Petro-grad who now makes this declaration in a .dispatch filed on Thursday and just received. Reutcr's Petrograd correspondent , reports that tho premises of the TJk- rainan revolutionary staff in Petro-grad Petro-grad were invaded by the Red guard and the four members who were pros- IH ent at the time arrested and taken to jH the Smolny institute, the Bolsheviki headquarters, the guard then going in search of the remaining Ukrainan rep- El rescntatives. El Will Not Submit to Leninc. 11 PETROGRAD, Friday, Dec."5l. M. fH Tohernoff, former minister of agricul- E ture, and Mme. Catherine Breshkovs-kaya Breshkovs-kaya and 'other Social -Revolutfonist .H members of the constittuent assembly, r have proclaimed their determination p not to submit to Premier Lenine and Foreign Minister Trotzky but to con-vene con-vene the assembly and to endeavor lH through it to carry out a program of peace and land freedom. The total number of .members elect-ed elect-ed to the constituent assembly is now 36S but only forty-eight of these have been registered as members by the Bolsheviki. Sl |