Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1918 — YIELD IN WEEK OR WAR-KAISER [ARTICLE]

YIELD IN WEEK OR WAR-KAISER

Germans Demand All the Baltic Provinces or Resume Attacks RUSSIANS SPURN THE TERMS Helure of Keval Is Threatened if Conditions Aro Not Agreed to Immediately. Berlin, Jan. 25.- —'The Imperial Defy man chancellor, Count von Hertling, in his address before the relchstng; said he still held fast to the hope that the Brest-Litovsk peace negotiations would reach a satisfactory conclusion at an eurly date. Petrograd, Jan. 25. —Russia must give up Courland and all the Baltlo provinces, or the Germans will resume military operations and occupy Reral within a week, the German delegation at Brest-Litovsk told the Russian representatives at the last session. An adjournment was taken until January 29 to permit the Russians tq consider the German terms. Reports of the session indicate that the Germans took a definite stand an<| most frankly outlined demands upon which they are insistent. The secretary of the Ukrainian delegation gave out an account of the meeting. It says the Russians put a| question to the delegates of the central powers as to what were their final peace terms. Hoffman Delivers Ultimatum. General Hoffman, one of the Ger« man delegates, replied by opening » map and pointing out the following line which they luslsted should tute the future frontier of Russia: From tha shores of the gulf of Finland to tha east of the Moon Sountl Island to Valk, to the west of Minsky to Brest-Litovsk. This compjetely eliminates Courlandj and ail the Baltic provinces. The Russians asked the terms of! the central powers in regard to thei territory south of Brest-Litovsk. General Hoffman replied that was a question which they would discuss onlyl with the Ukrulne. M. Kameueff, a] member of the Russlun delegation* asked: “Suppose we do not agree to such) conditions. What are you going tm do?” General Hoffman’s answer is ed to have been : “Within a week, then, we will cupy Beval." c Demand Food From Ukraine. The Russians then asked for a recess, which was granted reluctantly. The Germans declared It was thelast postponement to which they would consent. The request was made by Leon Trotzky, head of the Russian delegation, who said he desired an opportunity to lay the German peace terms before the council of workmen's and soldiers’ delegates. ( Forty Killed in Moscow Riots. Forty persons were killed and 200 wounded In riots at Moscow on Tuesday during a demonstration at an anniversary celebration of “Bloody Sunday.” Twenty or more social revolutionary members of the constituent assembly were arrested here Monday evening. i i ■ i ■