5 JANUARY 1918, Page 10

The German Government has shown its real opinion of the

Russian Anarchist peace movement by making wholesale arrests among the leaders of the Independent Socialists, the only Germans who have any sympathy with Lenin and Trotsky. The enemy delegations visiting Petrograd to discuss the treatment of prisoners were told by the Anarchists- that these arrests would prevent Russia from negotiating with confidence for peace. The Russians declined, meanwhile, to resume trade with Germany.