The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-12-07
'A|'T!,. !. PE BE-! ACT
|. MUvt' II, Ib,njWS
IN RUSSIA
Kerensky Claims Railroads
Are Weakening
AIR RAID ON LONDON
Twenty-Five German Airships Raided
English Coast But Only Five
Reached London
AIR RAID ON LONDON

London, Dec. 6,-While the Bolshe
| visit delegates have agreed 10 a ten.
| day armistice. as announced officially
by the Berlin War Office, powerful
and growing opposition to the peace
oyertures IS shaping itself in Russia,
as appears from advices from various
sources.
The ukrainian Official BuI eau, &C.
cording to dispatch by way of lie
neva, has made the following an,
nouncement.
Neither the Ukrainian Parliament
nor the Government has opened negc
tiations for separate peace with the
Central Powers, despite German af
flrmations to the contrary"
A dispatch to the Central News
from Copenhagen says:
THE Russian legation in the Dan
ish capital has published telegram
received from the Russian Legation
in Teheran, Persia, saying the Ad
ministration and the army command
in the Caucasus are opposed to the
Boisheviki and that special delega
tion has arrived in Teheran to negoii
ate with the Russian and British q
cations concerning the continuation
of the war. The dispatch adds that
the Caucasians will not stop fighting
against the Turks, but that they viii
need financial support
Petrograd advices announce that
the Social Revolutionary newspaper
Dielonaroda ( the Peoples Work.
publishes a letter from Kerensky
the former Premier, In which tie
following passages occur:
DO you not see that your frank
ness is being made use of and that
you are being deceived? You were
promised peace with the Germans
within three days Where is Il?
Where is the liberty which was
promised you?
TT Is dishonorable, infamous!
Fools! 1t is !, Kerensky, who tell
you this For eight months | safe
guarded the liberty of the people and
the future happiness of the masses OF
workers. Now they realize that
when | was in power liberty was
and democracy really existed"
London. Dec. 7.-Seven persons
were killed and 21 injured in Ger
man air raid on England yesterday
Chancellor Bonar Law announced iii
the House of Commons. OF the vic.
tins three were killed and 1o injured
in London. Bombs dropped by the
raiders caused number OF fires in
London. but all Of them were suick
ly brought under control. The casu
ualties are believed to be light.
About g airplanes took part in ths
raid, it was announced officially at
London. OF these, six reached Lon.
don. Two of the raiders were
brought down, the crew of three men
on each machine being captured
The text of the report by Field
Marshal Lord French. commander OF
the British home forces, regarding
the air raid, is as follows:
"a raid by about 25 enemy air
planes took place early this morning
The first group Of raiders came in
over Kent at 100 a. m. and dropped
bombs in various places on and near
the coast. The second group made
land shortly after 3 a. M. various
machines proceeding up the Thames
and some distance into Kent.
Both the above groups appear to
have carried out preliminary attacks
with the object of drawing gunfire
and exhausting the defenses for it
was not until an hour later that the
most serious attack developed.
Between and $3.50 a. M two
groups of enemy machines crossed
the Essex coast, proceeding towards
London on converging courses.
"Their tactical plan seems to have
been to deliver five simultaneous at.
tacks on the capital from the north
east. east and southeast. The whole
of one group, however. was turned
back by gunfire. and at the others
not more than five or six machines,
penetrated into London.
"One or two explosive and a large
number of incendiary bombs were
dropped in various districts about )
| a M.