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VOLUME XX
HUNS ASK SWEDEN TO NEGOTIATE WITH ALLIES |
American Force in France Ready for Action,Baher Says
IMEM WDMEI\I TH
BE GRANTED VOTE IN
FEDERAL ELECTIONS
Women’s War Work Is Win
ning Them Right to Havei
Voice in Government of
Their Country
WASHINGTON. Jan 18. —Woman's
war work ’s winning them the right to
v ote.
The first trench in the battle for suf- |
fraze extending over many years in I
th:»= country, is expected to fall late
toda: when the house votes on a con
stitutional amendment granting equal
franchise rights to women. With Presi
dent Wilson supporting the suffrage
ranks and Republicans almost solid!)
for the amendment, it :s expected to
set the necessary two-thirds vote.
Already the battle to carry the sen
ate has been started by the suffragists.
They will press for an immediate vote
in the upper branch and expect a com
pletetvlefory within two months.
Suffrage leaders, happy today at the
sudden and tremendous impetus given ;
their movement, predicted ratification of ’
the amendment by all the states by’
1920. In twelve states they already
'nave full suffrage and in five enjoy
partial suffrage. A complete suffrage
victory would mark the second great i
onstitutional amendment brought about ,
by the war. Prohibition came as a war '
measure. Then.the women of the coun- ;
try. sacrificing their sons, knitting, mak
ing bandages, working, tirelessly for the ;
Red Cross and in Liberty bonck cam
paigns. won the right for equal recogni
tion with the men. .
Started Tears Ago
it was many years ago that Susan
R. Anthony started her movement for
suffrage. Then during a trip she made
south with Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt.
now president of the National American
.Woman’s Suffrage association. Miss An
thony said:
•'We njust work along by states for
a iong time. When we have got enougn
SIMM. the women of. the country wiU 4
know the time has come to press for j
a constitutional amendment and it will
win *•
At the recent convention l»f tue Na
•ional American Woman’s Suffrage as- 1
.©elation here. Mrs. Catt declared ’ this
- the psychological moment —we have j
• arried New York. The time has come
to press so- the constitutional amend
ment."
They began their light in congress
orthwitn. always aware of the sym
pathetic support of ' President Wilson.
Today they sec victory in sight.
Twelve slates are already theirs— ;
.’allforala. Washington. Oregon. Nevada.
Kansas. New York. Idaho. Wyoming.
Ctah. Montana. Arizona and Colorado.
Cive others enjoy partial suffrage Ne
braska. Illinois. Rhode Island. North
Dakota and Michigan.
Wardart Fights ia South
The loudest’ratification fights arc ej
ected in the southern states—with the
xcept’oi. of Florida. Tennessee. Arkan- j
a?. Missouri. Texas and West Vir- ;
These states, suffrage leaders :
•eda- declared, would come quickly and !
The fiaht In the senate is expected ■
• U' hard and close, but with the |
, res'd nf -a d. suffrage leaders are con-
• r ent they Wil win the necessary two
c.’rd- Ahe-e.
-uff as leaders planned a great
d ronsirution in the house this aster
n- on whe- the vets is taken. Seats in
.he galleries were at a premium today.
Many sat through the entire day to
witness the flrat -rent victory antici-
• ated after years of eff<yt.
snd in the throng were heard deter- ■
so -cd threats to "get. at the polls.” the
-r.wary representative who failed to 1
unpert the treasure today or who avoid
<.s the is-i.’e by failing to appear at
the'roll call*
Billy Prays for Peace
As the house met, among those op
posed to the amendment, there was a
'rwrkness that the president’s declara
tion had probably - hanged enough votes
to Insure adoption, although some of the
opposition still contended it would be
hard to break the alignment against it
In the south
Speaker Clark said he expected the
vote to come between a and 6 o clock.
The session of the house was opened
With prayer by Billy Sunday, the evan
gelist, who invoked divine mercy on
the president, the cabinet, the allies and
\merican soldiers. He referred to the
world as sin-cursed, denounced the Ger
mans as a -wolfish paek of Huns. ’ and
prayed for peace.
Representative Foster of Illinois
. prned the fight • . offering the specia
r ile which fixed four hours for general
debate and reading of the bill for amend
ment to begin not later than 5 o’clock.
Representative Barker of New Jersey.
Republican, led off the debate, opposing
•he amendment.
President Approves Measure
President Wilson last night threw Ma
upper: to the federal amendment for
woman suffrage.
On the eve of a vote on suffrage in
the bouse twelve Democratic members
-tailed at the White House with word
• hat many of their colleagues wanted
advice from the head of their party as
»o the position they should take. There
was a conference of forty minutes, the
result of which was described In this
statement, dictated by the president
nimself and mode public by the dele
gation :
The committee found that the
president had not felt at liberty to
volunteer his advice to members of
or.gress in this Important matter,
but when we sought his advice he
very frankly and earnestly advised
ns to vote for the amendment, as
an act of right and justice for the
women of ths country and of the
world.
Eul! Associated Press Service
11. S. FORESTRY BOARD
REFUSES TO SANCTION
GEORSIA LM SALES
Legislation Passed by State
1
Assembly Alleged to Be in|
Interest of Non-Resident
»
Owners of Land
BY KALPH SMJTH
WASHINGTON. D. C. Jan. 10.- As
the direct result of an cnecatmcnt by 1
the Georgia legislature last summer,
which the federal government believes
to be hostile toward it and inimical to
the interests of Grorgia and Georgians,
the United States forestry commission;
has refused to sanction the purchase for i
$205,705, of certain lands lying in the
counties of Union. Fanin, Lumpkin,
Rabun, and Habersham.
The attitude of the forestry commis
sion is represented by the following ex
cerpt from the minutes of its last meet
ing.
’•Resolved, that the government de» I
clines further purchase in the state of
Georgia until sympathy of the. state of
Georgia is shown with the undertaking
of the government by the withdrawal of
hostile legislation."
The full import of the resolution will
be better understood and apprepciated
when the personnel of the forestry com
mission is considered.
-The following distinguished gentlel
- compose the board:
Secretary of War Newton D. Baker,
Secretary of Interior Franklin K. Lane.
Secretary of Agriculture David H. Hous
ton, United States Senator John Walter
Smith, of Maryland; United States Sen
ator Jacob H. Galinger, of New Hamp
shire; Representative Gordon Lee, of
Georgia; Representative Willis C. Ham
ley, of Oregon.
The forestry commission took its ac
tion on December 12, last year, when
there was submitted to it for approv
al a recommendation for the purchase of
69,405 acres of land iu Union, Fannin,
Lumpkin. Rabun and Habersham coun
tiese, at a price totalling $205,709.
What Act Provides
The legislation that aroused the re
sentment of the commission is repre
sented by bill No. 187. approved by thf
governor on August 18 of last year,
and entitled an act to limit condemna
tion proceedings by the United States
to such lands as may be offered to the
United States in writing in which the
owner consents to such condemnation." j
Ostensibly, the purpose of the bill
was to protect the owners of mountain
ous lands in Georgia from arbitrary
action by the federal government in I
taking their lands for national forests.
The government believes, however,
that the legislation, far from protecting
the small land owners, the county and j
state, was designed chiefly to benefit
large nonresident owners of forest
lands, and will result in depriving the
state and the counties of a large rev
enue from the sale by the government
of timber. The action of the com mis- i
sion in declining to purchase the oig j
tract of Georgia land, in accordance i
with .the recomendations, was predicated
upon the report of W. W. Ashe, an in
spector in the acquisition division of
the forest reserve bureau. In reporting
upon the legislation and its origin, the I
inspector first commented upon the fal
lacious plausibility of the legislation
as an easy means of defending its jus-1'
tice. He declared that the authors of ■
the bit! probably experienced small dis- 1.
Acuity in convincing the uninformed
that the legislation proposed only to
protect the smajl mountain land own- 1
er from being arbitrarily deprived of!
his home by the “greedy" federal gov- (
ernment. He pointed out, however, that,
in its forest reservation land eondem-.
nations the federal government has re- J
ligiously and invariably eliminated all j
(Continuad on Page 8, CoL 3.)
Dynamite in Coal
Wrecks Freight Train
Crossing River Bridge
MEMPHIS, Tenn.. Jan. 10.—Dynamite I
| in coal shoveled into the engine’s boiler i
this afternoon, exploded a freight loco- i
motive at Harahan bridge, spanning the i
Mississippi river here, fatally injuring j
several persons. At least two inen are |
reported to be dying. •
The fireman of the train. W. L. Brew- j
er. of Paducah, Ky., was blown through !
the window of the engine and miracu- i
lously escaped falling into the water ,
sixty feet below. The third injured man
ie H. T. Malone, switchman, of Mem- '
phis. The men were scalded and other- '
wise injured
The train did not leave the rails |
j and is stalled on the bridge.
The Haraha;; bridge Is. the biggest,
bridge over the Mississippi. Until re-
I cently it had been guarded by federal ’
troops. It is now under a railroad guard.
Police nave been rushed to the scene !
of the accident and are investigating
the possibility of a plot to wreck the
bridge.
Two Georgia Boys
Are Dead in France;'
One by Asphyxiation
WASHINGTON. Jan. 10.—General Per
shing reported today that Private T. H.
Sharpe, signal corps, was killed January
7 as the result of an airplane accident.
No details were given. L. K. Sharpe, his
father, lives at LaMlrque. 1-a.
Deaths from natural causes also re- j
ported include:
Corporal Edgar Sutton, stevedores,
pneumonia. Thomasville, Ga., and Cor
poral Aaron Crook. Jr., stevedores, gas j
aspAyxiatten. Abbeville, Ga
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NEWLY ORGANIZED
HUN PLOTS HERE
ARE FRUSTRATED
Included Fresh Propaganda
and Sabotage of Extreme
Type—Movement, However,
Limited to Sporadic Activity
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. —Through in
tercepted communications and evidence
found on a score or more of arrested
aliens, government agents have discov
ered a movement to reorganize German
sabotage and anti-war propaganda In
this country.
The movement was broken up and ene
my activities now are believed confined
to sporadic cases carried on largely by
pro-Ge.rman sympathizers without guid
-1 ance from a central headquarters. '
This was disclosed today by govern
ment officials, who declined, however, to
give all the details surrounding a series
!of measures recently taken to prevent
I the rebuilding, of a unified enemy spy
I system. It is known that about thirty
; Germans and a few Scandinavians have
1 been arrested on suspicion of complicity
in the new plot. , The Germans have
been interned and the Scandinavians sent
I out of the country. Some Americans are
under suspicion and are being closely
watched.
The evidence gathered in the round-up
I indicated that a few leaders, whose
1 identity has not been disclosed but who
are believed to be neutral subjects, tried
1 to communicate with a number of ag:ta
tors located mainly in eastern seaports,
j in industrial centers, and in the extreme
1 west, to develop co-operation among
, them.
Sabotage was to be conducted system
-1 atically, and propaganda for peace, or
dissemination of pessimistic war reports,
was to be stimulated under direction of
1 a recognized head. There were indica
tions also that the headquarters was to
gather bits of information from all parts
lof the country and forward it to Ger
many through a north European neutral
• by code communications carried by mem
bers of ship crews other means.
Hundreds of self-appointed spies are
now believed to be at work in the United
, States, but officials disclaim that they
worry much about them. Fires and ex
plosions which have occurred recently
are said to be the work) of individual
cranks, probably pro-Gennan in their
sympathies, but without direction of a
master organization.
Officials explained today that it was in
expedient to make public all facts con
nected with recent discoveries, inasmuch
as there still is danger of a reorganiza-
I tion of the spy system which was in op
eration when the United States entered
the war.
Text of President Wil
son’s speech will be
found on page two.
• ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1018.
KfIISER TO BEGIN BIG
MOVEMENT OF TROOPS
Germany Closes Neutral Fron
tiers Presumably for Of
fensive in France
BERNE, Jan. 10. —dosing of the Ger
man-Swiss and German-Holland fron
tiers for a month, just as announced by
the Germans, was ’aken today to pre
sage extensive troop transfers.
Presumably it means switch of Teu
tonic forces from the Italian to the
west front.
French Easily Repulse
Minor German Raid
PARIS. Jan. 10.—" The Frpnch easily
repulsed a German raid against small
posts on the western edge of the upper
Coucy forest,” says today’s official com
munication. "The artillery fighting was
active in the region of Vauxaillon.
Everywhere else the night was calm.”
Artillery Fighting Active
In Arras Region of France
NEW YORK, San. iO.—(Summary of
European Cables.) —On the western
front the opposing guns have been
active near the Scarpe, in the Arras
area; northeast of Ypres, and northeast
of Verdun. The Germans have failed
thus far to take counter measures
against the successful French sortie in
the Woevre.
British merchantmen lost during the
last week equal the losses of the pre
vious week, when eighteen of more than
1.600 tons and three of less than that
tonnage were sunk by submarines or
mines. The French report the loss of
one merchantman, as compared with
nine the previous week.
Peace emissaries of Russia and the
central powers are meeting at Brest-
Litovsk. It is reported that the first
discussion revolved around the selection
of a meeting place which has not yet
been decided upon. It is added, however,
that, a settlement probably will life
reached. The Russian government has
refused Turkey’s offer of a separate
peace and has informed that country
that she must participate in the gen
eral conference.
President Wilson's message has been
indorsed without reservation by the
British Labor party and British public
men, from the Labor, Socialist and Lib
eral parties. Attention is now directed
to Germany and Russia to see what ef
fect the message will have on the peo
ples of those countries. It is felt in
Ixmdon that the German government
may be compelled to answer the presi
dent’s address because of the continued
differences between the militarists and
noninilitarists in Germany.
Slight Artillery Firing
Is All Gen. Haig Reports
LONDON. Jan. 10.—Slight artillerying
in the neighborhood of Gonnelieu was
all Field Marshal Haig reported from
the British front today.
MINISTER PICHON
TO STATE FRENCH
WAR AIMS FRIDAY
♦
Will Follow Lines Laid Down,
by President Wilson and
Premier Lloyd George, It Is
Said
PARIS, Jan. 10.—The Echo d’Paris an
nounced today that a collective list of
allied war aims would probably be is
sued shortly,” the exact date to be de
cided at the meeting of allied premiers
next week.
Minister of Foreign affairs Pichon
this afternoon or tomorrow will
speak in the chamber of depu
ties outlining France's war aims, accord
ing to authoritative information today.
It was stated the foreign minister
would follow exactly the lines of Pre
mier Lloyd George, of England, and
President Wilson, of America, in baring
to the world the exact aims which
France has in continuing the war and
the only terms on which she can consid
er peace.
At the opening of the session of the
chaunber of deputies today Deputy Des
chanel, speaking, said, he said in the
name of the deputies, pledged that the
chamber would support the restitution
of Alsace-Lorraine and sustain the ar
mies in the field to this end
Amid a storm of applause he paid elo
quent tribute to Prisedent Wilsop's
speech.
“Glory to all the allied nations,” Des
chanel declared. “Glory especially to
the United States, which from Washing
ton to Lincoln to Wilson, has added new
light in universal morale, as she has.
added new stars to her flag.
"Victorious France will nd: have a
peace of a vanquished people; she w\ll
not recede; she will oppose her invaders
with an inflexible heart—a heart in
flamed with the one passion that France
is to .save the supreme good of our fath
erland by justice."
Town Reported Wiped
Out by Explosion of
Powder and Dynamite
FORT SMITH, Ark., Jan. 10. —A pow
der and dynamite plant at aPtterson,
Okla., 18 miles east of McAlester, Okla.,
was blown up at 12:30 o’clock today,
according to a message received over a
railroad wire. It was reported that
there had been loss of life.
The operator of the Misouri, Kansas
and Texas railroad at Patterson wired
that the town had been wiped out. He
feared the loSs of life would be great
he said.
The explosion rocked the mining town
of Bokoshe, eighteen miles west of For:
Smith. At Crowder, west of Fort
Smith, every plate glass window was
broken.
WO.RDOMENNDW
IN ARMS. EQUIPPED.
SECRHABY DECLARES
Force Six Times That of
Sp a n i s h-American War,
Sickness Less Than If Sol
diers Had Remained Home
WASHINGTON. Jan. 10— Secretary
Baker today replied to criticisms of. his
I department’s conduct of the war, in a
long and exhaustive prepared statement
i presented to the senate military com
-1 mittee.
Conceding delays and errors of judge
: ment in so vast an undertaking Secre
-1 tary Baker epitomized his reply in these
: words:
‘No army of similar size in the his
-1 tory of the world has ever been raised.
, equipped or trained so quickly. No
■ such provision has ever been made for
the conduct, health and general well
being of an army.”
America now has in France an army of
’’substantial” size ready for active serv
ice. Secretary Baker today told the sen
ate war investigating committee.
1 t Officers and men, Tie explained, have
i been trained specially for modern war
fare, independent lines of communica
tion and supply are in process of con
struction. and great programs have been
formulated for the production of new
instruments of war.
Arms of the most modern and effective
kind, the secretary declared, have been
provided for every soldier in France
and are available for every figjiting man
who can be sent to France in 1918.
An army of nearly a million and a
half men is now in the field or in train
ing at home and abroad, he asserted.
The subsistence of the army, he con
tinued, has been above criticism, while
its initial clothing supply, temporarily
inadequate, is now substantially com
plete. •
“I state the foregoing conditions of
the war department’s problem, and some
of the results attained, for two pur
poses,” he said. “In the first place, the
American people are entitled to know
of the splendid effectiveness with which
they, have been able to ergwnfse the man-’
power and' the material power of the
; nation; and, second, our army in France
and our allies are entitled to have the
benefit resulting from the depression of
the morale of their enemies which must
come when the Germans realize that
the American democracy has neither
blundered nor hesitated.
“No army of similar size in the his
tory of the world has ever been raised,
equipped or trained so quickly. No such
I provision has ever been made for the
, comfort, health and gqneral well-being
j of an army.”
Outline of eWork
The secretary gave the committee
an outline of the work of the department
. and its various bureaus.
"On the first day of April, 1917, the
regular army,” he said, “egm prised 5,-
; 791 officers and 121,797 enlisted men; the
! national guard In federal service, ap
proximately 3,733 officers and 76,713 en
listed men, and the reserve, 4,000 en
listed men. There were also at that
time aproximately 2,573 officers in the
reserve, but as these weer on inactive
duty they cannot properly be considered
in estimating the strength of the army
of the United States at that time. On
the 31st day of December, 1917, the reg
ular army consisted of 10,250 officers
and 475.000 enlisted men; the national
guard of 16,031 officers and 400,900 en
listed men; the national army of 430.000
men, and the reserve of 84,575 officers
and 72,75(1 enlisted men. In other words,
in. nine months the increase has been
from 9,524 officers to 100,856 officers;
from 202,310 to 1,428,650 men.
“During the war with Spain, the army
of the United States At its maximum
strength aggregated 272.000 men and of
ficers. The army now in the field and
in training is, therefore, roughly six
times as great as the maximum npinber
under arms in the Spanish-American
war.
“The total number already in the mil
itary service is one and a half times as
large as any force mobilized by this na
tion.
Small Death. Bate
••The death rate in forces in the Unit
ed States, from mid-September to the
end of December, averaged 7.5 per thou
sand, and is slightly less than would
have been the death rate of men of the
same age at home,” the secretary said.
* "In 1898, the death rate per thousand
was 20.14, or nearly three times as
great,” he cofitinued.
"Our death rate in the army during
1916. just before the war, was five per
thousand. Leaving out the deaths due
to measles and its complications, our
rate among all troops in the United
States, since September 1, has been
about two per thousand.
“For the fiscal year 1915 congress ap
propriated for the war department $158.-
000,000; for the fiscal year 1916, $203,-
000.000; for the fiscal year 1917, $403,-
'000.000; for the fiscal year 1918, $7,527,-
I 338,716. in other words, taking 1915 as
a normal year, the appropriations for
are nearly fifty times as great.
"The regular appropriations made by
congress for all government purposes
for the fiscal year 1915 were $720,000,000.
or nearly one-tenth the 19I£ appropria
tions for the war department alone.
"Os the total war department appro
priations for 1918, $3,200,000 000 was for
I the ordnance department, of which con
tracts amounting to $1,67 7,000,000 al
: ready haev been placed.”
New Ordnance Material
Many of tne classes of ord.iance ma
! terial requiring to be designed, specifi-
I cations drawn, and contracts let. were
| wholly unfamiliar to the country’s nor
mal military practices. The trench war
(fare material alone involves commit-
Iments of $282 000.000, Mr. Baker said.
"For the quartermaster general's de
partment in 1918. $3,018,000,000 was ap
| propriated, or a sum more tifari four
(Continued on Pc-ge 7, Column 1.)
NUMBER 31.
9DLSHEVIKI MAY
■EL NATIONAL
DEBT OF RUSSIANS
Bulgaria and Russia Have-
Concluded Separate Peace
Agreement, According to Re
ports From Berne d
PETROGRAD. Wednesday, Jan. 9.
The German delegations in ’Petrograd
are reported by the Evening Post to hare
got into touch with the "Swedish legation
here and to have expressed the desire
that Sweden act as a go-between with
Great Britain. France and Italy.
The German delegations in Petrograd j
were sent to take up with the Russians J
questions such as resumption of com-1
mercial relations and releases of certain I
classes of prisoners. So far as is known 1
they were not charged with political ■
affairs, and in ordinary circumstances 1
the German government would not en»« 1
ploy such agents in seeking Sweden
mediator. Negotiations would be
ried on directly with the Swedish
ister at Berlin or through the
minister at Stockholm.
Bolsheviki Government to
Repudiate Its Obligationsr
LONDON, Jan. 10.—The Bolsheviki
government intends to publish a decree
within a few days cancelling the Rus
sian national debt, telegraphs the cor
respondent at Petrograd' of the Man
chester Guardian. The correspondent
understands the decree will contain
these provisions.
First—All loans and treasury bonds
held by foreign subjects abroad pr In
Russia are repudiated.
Second—Loans and treasury bonds
held by Russian subjects possessing
more than 10,000 rubles in capital kxe
repudiated.
Third—Loans and treasury bonds
by Russian subjects possessing capitafl
in loafo scrip or deposits not axteedini®
1,000 rubles are to receive five per cenM
Interest on the nominal value of
loan and those possessing 10,000
are to receive three per cent.
Fourth Workmen and
holding 100 rubies worth of loans
bonds may sell their holdings to
stale at 75-per cent of Its nominal
ue. Those holding 600 rubles worth
sell at 70 per cent of its
Separate Peace Concluded! '
By Bulgaria and Rusß
BERNE. Switzerland. Jan. 10.—A
.irate peace agreement nas been
by Russia and Bulgaria, the
ports.
A Bulgarian correspondent of th«H
Bund says Premier Radoslavoff read
following dispatch from Brest-Litovsk,
in parliament:
“War between Russia and Bulgaria
ceases. Dilomatlc and economic rela
tions between Russia and Bulgaria ar®
resumed. Russia recognizes Bulgaria’®
right to nominate a delegate to an in
ternational Danube commission. Th®
first peace is thus concluded with th® 1
consent of Bulgaria’s allies.”
Hhe Bund says Bulgaria has appoint- '
ed a minister to PArtograd and a consul
general to be stationed at Odessa, and
has ordered the resumption of naviga
tion to Odessa.
Bulgaria took part with Germany
Austria and Turkey in the first negotia
tions at Brest-Litovsk and it has been,
assumed that no peace terms would b®
agreed to by the central powers except j
in concert. However, advices •yesterday I
giving the names of those who took part I
in the first session of the Brest-Litovsk I
conferences, when they were resumed A
this week, made no mention of a Bui-]
garian representative. I
King of Bulgaria is credited]
with opposing the formula of peac®M
without annexations or indemnities,
daring Bulgaria should retain the
ritory she had wolf. This would not
terfere with a peace between Russia and,
Bulgaria, however. Inasmuch as the tertM •
ritory Bulgaria desires consists of partfl
of Serbia and Rumania. Premier Rado
slavoff was quoted In a Sofia dispaieb.
last month to the effect that Bulgaria had.
accepted the Russian proposals, provid
ing for ending the war, restoring eon>«
mercial treaties in effect before the waF
and settling the Danube question.
Peace Negotiations Will Be
Moved to Neutral Nation’
LONDON. Jan. 10.—At the first sit
ting of the resumed negotiations atr—.
Brest-Litovsk on Tuesday, says a dts-T
patch sent out by the official Russian
news agency, the discussion between the
Russian delegates and those of the cen
tral powers centered on the selection of
a city in some neutral country in which
to continue the deliberations. There is
every probability, it is added, of a sat
isfactory arrangement being reached.
Turkey Refused Separate
Peace Terms by Russia
PETROGRAD, WednffHay, Jan. 9.—/
Separate peace proposals made by Tur
key, it is reported, haA been refused by
the Bolshevik government'. Turkey was
requ«sted to participate in the general
conference between Russia and the cen
tral powers.
A dispatch received in London last
Saturday from Petrograd purported to
give the Turkish peace terms as pre
sented to Russia, but the dispatch did
not state that Turkey's proposals had
been made independent of the other cen
tral powers. . Among the terms proposed
by Turkey were free passage of the
Dardanelles for Russian ships. Russian
evacuation o€ Turkish territory and de
mobilization of the Russia)# Black, sea
fleet. Turkey was to retain her active i
army in consequence of continuation of I
war against the entente. ,