The Russian Anarchists signed an armistice with the enemy at
Brest-Litovsk last Saturday "for bringing about a lasting and honourable peace." It is to endure from Monday last till January 14th, and to continue afterwards until either party gives a week's notice to end it. The armistice applies to both the European and Asiatic fronts. Neither party is to make any transfer of troops from the European front, except such transfers as had begun before Saturday last—an exception which, of course, enables the Germans to send as many men as they please to the West. Organ- ized intercourse is permitted on every divisional front, for the exchange of news and letters and the sale of wares. The armistice extends to the waters of the Black Sea and the Baltic, but a special agreement is to be made regarding the White Sea, where the Allies, not Russia, control the situation. The Anarchists, however, have given a " guarantee " that Allied warships will observe the armistice. It is agreed that Russian and Turkish troops shall be withdrawn from Persia ; no Turkish troops are there now, and the proviso is intended to deprive General Marshall of such help as the Russian detachments have given him on the Persian frontier. Peace negotiations are to begin forthwith. Baron von Kohlmann and Count Czernin have invited M. Trotsky to join them at Brest-Litovsk. The Anarchist and the autocrat's servants will be good company.
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