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Show HUNS AND RUSSIANS SIGN PEACE TERMS FEARING MORE ONEROUS TERMS MIGHT BE IMPOSED, RUSS ACCEPT AC-CEPT WHAT THEY CAN GET. Turkey Wins Former and Disputed Territory in Latest Demands of Germany. Military Movements Expected to Cease. Petrograd. In the fear that argument argu-ment would result in even more onerous oner-ous terms, the Russian delegation at Brest-Li tovsk has accepted all the German Ger-man peace conditions and has signed an agreement", according to a telegram tele-gram from the delegates received Sunday Sun-day at the Smoluey institute. The demands de-mands already have been increased, they reported. "By reason of the signing of the peace treaty with Russia," says the official of-ficial communication from Berlin, "military "mil-itary movements in Great Russia have ceased." The message, which was addressed to Premier Lenine and Foreign Minister Min-ister Trotzky, follows: Deliberations Useless. "As we anticipated, deliberations on a treaty of peace are absolutely useless use-less and could only make things worse in comparison with the ultimatum of February 21. They might even assume the character of leading to the presentation presen-tation of another ultimatum. "In view of this fact and in consequence conse-quence of the Germans' refusal to cease military action until peace is signed, we have resolved to sign the treaty without discussing its contents and leave after, we have attached our signatures. We, therefore, have requested re-quested a train, expecting to sign and leave afterwards. "The most serious feature of the new demands compared with those of February 21 is the following: "To detach the regions of Karaband, Kars and Batoum from Russian territory ter-ritory on the pretext of the right of peoples to self-determination." The new territorial claims upon Russia are apparently advanced in the interest of Turkey. Batoum, a strongly fortified seaport on the Black sea coast, in Transcaucasia, about twenty miles north of the border of Turkish Armenia, was one of the cities ceded by Turkey to Russia after the Russo-Turkish Russo-Turkish war of 1877-78. Kars, also in Transcaucasia, 105 miles northeast of Erzeroum, in Turkish Armenia, has been in dispute between Turks and the Russians for nearly a century and finally was ceded to Russia at the same time as was Batoum. The other region mentioned probably is that of Karabagh, Transcaucasia, lying to the east of the Kars region and north of the Persian border. |