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Show London Papers Bitter Against George's Hint of Negotiations. "SHAKE MURDERERS' Baltic States May Move I to Reach Agreement With the Soviet. LONDON, Nov 10 (By The Associated Asso-ciated Press Premier Lloyd George's hint in his Guild hall speech Saturday night of an attempt to uego ;tiate peace with tbe Bolshevik in 'Russia has created a stir her' The anti-Bolshevik press is indignant over i the suggestion. I The Daily Mail scouts he idea as ("shaking hand, wlth-a murder. -r," ..nd l generally denounces the suggestion, I which It says, caused great amazement amaze-ment In political clrdes The Tele graph and the Morning Post are also hostile to the proposition. Referring to tn portion of the j speech dealing w ith the possibility of peace with RUasia, th-- ('bronic)e. special spe-cial champion of :he pi emir r. declares "It is not free from obscurity." "Some may see in It," the Cnronicle continues, "a sugg?stion of returning to the Prinklpo polcy; we do not, however, read In it quite that sense ' The Daily News, Anlch is antago iis-tic iis-tic to the premier and strongly in faor of making peace witn the Holshe-vik, Holshe-vik, accuses Mr Lloyd GOTge of in-consistency in-consistency and insincerl'v in all his dealings with Russia. TIk newspaper contends that th terms which the soviet government is k.iown to be willing will-ing to accept are essentially reason able n declares a sincer? attempt at peace thought to be successful, though "it ihe Bolshevik! mot with military successes, thev may be tempted to pu' the price of peace higher than they are putting it today ' The determination of labor o opp .se intervention in Russia has at ast taught the premier that labor is more to be feared than . reactionary press says the Herald, labor organ The newspaper calls upon labor to fore, the government to make peace on the soviet terms. Some commentators remark on what they call the apparent discrepancy be-tween be-tween Mr. Lloyd George's treatment o!" the Russian problem and the speech Oi Winston Spencer I hurchill in Ihe house of commons Wednesdaj in which the war minister demanded the fullest support j( Admiral Kolctiak and General Kenikine. They ccntind that the two utterances are divergent in sens.- and spirit and ask which cor rectly represents the government' policy The discoveries . -s.pl in" from raid on soviet quarters ii the United States are said by anti-Bolshevik papers to be proof of th danger of dealing with the Colsheiki. BALTIC STATES MOVE HELSINGFORS, Sunday. Nov. 9 --Opinion --Opinion in political circles here is that the Baltic states and Poland at the conference being hetd at ' orpat .' 111 reach an agreement to Invite the Bol-Bhevlkl Bol-Bhevlkl to send representatives to i ioi p. it on November 1C to discuss wit b them the question of peace. It is considered untimely that Finland Fin-land will enter into the negotiations at the present time TO CONSIDER RUSSIA PARIS. Nov. 10. Considerable (m-portance (m-portance is attached by the press to ihe visit of President Poincare to ESng land According to Marcel Hutin. writing In the Echo de Paris, the president and foreign minister, Plchon, will accompany mm, will discuss with Premier Lloyd George and Earl Cur-zon, Cur-zon, British foreign minl-ter, questions ques-tions relating to putting the peace treaty into effect, taking into account new dispositions by the United States The Russian problem, according to the writer, especially in view of the recent utterances ot Premiei Lloyd George, also will be the subject of dis cussion Reds Take Fastoff. LONDON, Nov 10. Occupation of the town of Fastoff, near Kiev, by OVlet troops, is reported In a Russian Bolshevik communication received by wireless today (The Bolsheyiki last week reported the capture of Tcherni gov, eighty miles north of Kiev Fastoff Fas-toff does not appear on nvailable maps of the district Cessation of Hostilities. HELSINGFORS. Sunday. Nov. 9.--(By the Assoc iated Press ) "For Es-thonia Es-thonia it is not a question of peace with the Bolshevlki but a cessation of hostilities In order for our existence," exist-ence," said Premier Standmann, the Esthonian prime minister. In an Intel view today. "We cannot fight indefinitely,' Mr Standmann continued. "Our financial and economic condition will not pe:mit this our military supplies ar exhausted ex-hausted those from England have ceased and Esthonla and the other border states have no reason to tight longer." LONDON, Nov. 10. A wireless dispatch dis-patch received here from Berlin says it has been learned from statement -appearing In Russian newspapers ihat N. V Nekrasnff, former finance minister, min-ister, minister of railways and vice-president vice-president of the Russian duma. was I shot by the Bolshevlki a year ago. The dispatch adds that after the I Bolshevik revolution Wkrasoff fled to south Russia, seeking to BRV6 hlm- j self from the Bolshevlki but that on 1 crossing the Volga river he was discovered dis-covered and stood against a w-all and shot. |