At the President's invitation the Russian delegates now presented, in a long speech, the basic proposals for peace terms, already familiar in the forms of the various resolutions passed by the Workmen's and Soldiers' Delegates. The Russian demands comprised fifteen paragraphs, or points, as follows: 1. Evacuation of all Russian territory now occupied by Germany, with autonomy for Poland and the Lithuanian and Lettish provinces. 2. Autonomy for Turkish Armenia. 3. Settlement of the Alsace-Lorraine problem by a free plebiscite. 4. The restoration of Belgium and indemnity through an international fund for damages. 5. Restoration of Serbia and Montenegro with a similar indemnity, Serbia gaining access to the Adriatic. Complete autonomy for Bosnia and Herzegovina. 6. Other contested Balkan territory to be temporarily autonomous pending plebiscites. 7. Restoration of Rumanian territory with autonomy for the Dobrudja; the Berlin convention concerning equality for Jews to be put into full force. 8. Autonomy for the Italian population of Trent and Trieste, pending a plebiscite. 9. Restoration of the German colonies. 10. Restoration of Persia and Greece. 11. Neutralization of all maritime straits leading to inland seas, including the Suez and Panama Canals. 12. All belligerents to renounce indemnities; contributions exacted during the war to be refunded. 13. All belligerents to renounce commercial boycotts after the war or the institution of special customs agreements. 14. Peace conditions to be settled at a congress composed of delegates chosen by a national representative body, the condition being stipulated by the respective parliaments that the diplomats shall sign no secret treaty; all such secret treaties to be declared null and void. 15. Gradual disarmament on land and sea and the establishment of militia to replace the standing armies. At almost precisely the same moment that this conference was in session Trotzky was publicly delivering an address to the members of the Executive Committee of the Soviet, in Petrograd, in the following terms: "We have called you here to ask your support. You must help us in our efforts to make peace with nations, and not with German militarism. If our delegation meets, eye to eye, representatives of the German emperor, without the people, then peace will be impossible. If dead silence should continue in Europe, if the German emperor should be enabled to offer offensive terms of peace, we should fight against it. I do not know to what extent we could fight, because of economic conditions, utter exhaustion, and the disorganized state of the army. But I think we would fight. We would release all elderly soldiers and call the youth of the country to fight to the last drop of their blood. The Allies must understand that we did not overthrow czarism to bend our knees before the kaiser. They know our game is not yet ended.