But at last it is done.

Then there were further difficulties with the Turks.

They declared that they must insist on one thing, to wit, that the Russian troops should be withdrawn from the Caucasus immediately on the conclusion of peace, a proposal to which the Germans would not agree, as this would obviously mean that they would have to evacuate Poland, Courland, and Lithuania at the same time, to which Germany would never consent.

After a hard struggle and repeated efforts, we at last succeeded in persuading the Turks to give up this demand.

The second Turkish objection was that Russia had not sufficiently clearly declared its intention of refraining from all interference in internal affairs.