Proceedings of the Brest-Litovsk Peace Conference: the peace ...

AUSTEO-HUNGARIAN REPLY TO KBYLENKO. 9
An earlier message (Nov. 28) states:
The Commander in Chief, in an order to the Army and Navy
announces that the envoys nominated by him, consisting of a hussar
lieutenant, a military doctor, and a volunteer, have returned with the
official answer of the German Commander in Chief consenting to
enter into negotiations for an armistice on all fronts.
A companion of Krilenko telegraphs that the German Commander
in Chief deputied the Commander of the Northern Army as its plenipotentiary.
The latter's answer was received on official Government
paper.
4. German Eeply to the Overtures of Ensign Kexlenko.
[From the (British) Daily Review of the Foreign Press, 3 December, 1917.]
A message from Petrograd (Nov. 29) states:
An answer has been received from the German Commander-in-Chief
on the Russian front respecting the conduct of the peace negotiations
launched by Lenin's Commander-in-Chief Krylenko. The answer
contained six paragraphs, and is
as follows:
1. The German Commander-in-Chief on the Eastern front is ready
to enter into negotiations with the Russian Commander-in-Chief.
2. The German Commander-in-Chief is authorized by the German
High Command to negotiate an armistice.
3. The Russian Commander-in-Chief must appoint a committee
duly authorized in writing and send it to the German Eastern headquarters.
4. The German Commander-in-Chief will likewise appoint a duly
authorized committee.
5. The German Commander-in-Chief must be informed of the day
and hour appointed in sufficient time to make necessary arrangements
to prepare a special train to the place where the Russian committee
purpose crossing the German lines.
(i. The Germans will arrange direct telegraph communication
between the committees and the Russian Higher Command.
(Signed) Von Hofmeistee,
Lieutenant- General Gommianding a Division.
6. AUSTRO-HUNGAEIAN RePLY TO THE OVERTURES OF EnSIGN
Krylenko.
[Prom the (British) Daily Review of the Foreign Press, 4 December, 1917,
p. 265.]
A Russian wireless received Dec. 1 states that the Council of the
People's Commissioners received the following radiotelegram sent
from Vienna on November 30
To the Government of the Russian Republic
The circular telegram of November 28 of the Council of the People's
Commissioners in which the Russian Government expresses its
willingness to commence negotiations concerning the conclusion of