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Show f Conflicting Demands for Strip of Territory in North Ends Negotiations MOSCOW, April 25. Armistice negotiations ne-gotiations between Russia and Finland reached a crisis today and ended with recall of the Russian delegates. Russians Rus-sians demanded as a b?,sis of the negotiations ne-gotiations the status quo ante of 1914 and the Finns the status prior to their last offensive. This in volves Finnish occupation of Petchenga and Karelyia, a wide strip of territory oxtending almost al-most to Murmansk and giving Finland strategic advantage in the peace negotiators. nego-tiators. Anothor reason for the un-lenablllty un-lenablllty of the proposal, according to the Russian viewpoint, was the declaration dec-laration of Norway that In such a case the government could make demands for a strip of territory on the Murmansk. Mur-mansk. The Lettish-Murmansk peace negotiations nego-tiations were suspended today to permit per-mit the Letts to communicate with their government regarding boundaries. bound-aries. A member of .the Letvian delegation dele-gation said today demands of Letvia j J were known to be endorsed by the en tente powers and that the government did not intend to recede. Treaty Nearly Ready. WARSAW, April 26. (By the Asso ciated .press,; xno lorejgn oiuce announces an-nounces a treaty between Poland and i - Ukraine will be signed soon. Inde- i pendence of the Ukranians will be pro- ' , claimed shortly afterwards. ; , . It is' understood Poland agrees to support the Ukranian military at the i 1 proper time when the Ukraine army occupy territory extending to the Dnieper. While much of Ukraine is v within Bolshevik lines, Ukraine plans to establish its capital in Kiev as soon as possible. W- j:; The resignation of" Stanislas Grad- t ' ,' ski, National-Democratic and chair-. chair-. 1 ; man of the diet's committee on foreign y ' affairs, was also announced. He is 1 opposing the government's policy de.- signed to create buffer states between ; Russia and Poland. At the committee hearing recent Gradski characterized Poland's aims as imperialistic. The government's policy was upheld by a vote of 19 to 6. |