The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-11-29

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Washington. d. c., Nov. 26.-Ambas-
4sador Bakhmeteff, of Russia, formally
notified the state department today
That the embassy does not
the authority of the extremists now in
control of the foreign office at Petro-
grad.
In a letter to Secretary Lansing fol-
lowing the resignation of three Of the
chlef officers of the embassy to avoid
having relations with the bolsheviki.
the ambassador said the bolsheviki
government was not representative Of
the true will of the Russian people and
se MN not recognize that or any other
'sinlllar government which would lead
the country into nonparticipation in the
war.
Will Stay at Post.
The ambassador said he considered
himself duty bound to remain at his
poss n would do so with a competent
Sta1f or assistants. While expressing
the belief that the true spirit of Russia
was bound to arise, he said, it was
evident that until conditions changed
the embassy could not exercise in full
measure it's essential duties and there
Tore he had authorized members of tho
embassy to find other fields for their
activities.
John Sookine, first secretary of the
embassy and an officer Of the Russian
army n Ferdinand De Mohrenschildt,
the second secretary, who married
Secretary McAdoo's daughter last Nav.
nave offered their services to the Am
eflcan government for the war against
Germany.
Washington. Nov. 26.-Three of the
chief officers of the Russian embassy
here resigned today to avoid having
further relations with the bolsheviki
leaders now controlling the Petrograd
foreign office. They are C. Onou,
counsellor; John Sookine, first secre-
tary, and f. De Mohrenschildt, second
secretary. Mr.. Sookine came to Wash
1nSton with Ambassador Boris Bakh-
meteff, after the overthrow of the non
archy, and has been the ambassadors
chief assistant.
Mr.. Mohrenschildt married Miss
Mona Hazelhurst McAdoo, daughter of
the secretary Of the treasury, last May.
Both he and Mr.. Onou were attached
to the embassy before the arrival of
the new ambassador.
OFFICIALS of this government regard
the bO~lSheVikl move for an armiStice
etWee Russia and her enemies and
the opening of immediate peace negoti-
atoms as an act that would place Rus
STA almost in the list of unfriendly ma
tons.
Amsterdam, Nov. 26.-Russian SOL
diers ave already abandoned their ad-
vanced positions against the Austro-
German troops at various parts of the
front, according to the Frankferter
Ieitung. Tha newspaper today print
ed a dispatch from Tarnovol stating
that Russians We're preparing for the
complete evacuation or Crzymalow
and Skalt.
Answering an Interpolation in the
Austrian house of deputies, Premier
Won Seydler, according to a Vienna dis
patch, declared that OIL information from
the foreign minister up to this time no
Russian peace offer had been made on
the eastern front. He added that the
offer would be examined in a benevo-
lent spirit and that accommodating
terms would be accepted. Unusual
conditions in Russia. he said, did not
allow clear judgment as to whether
the peace party there would be able
to accomplish it's objects.
Amsterdam, Nov. 2~6.-According to
advices received here. General Won
Ludendorff. first ouartermaster general
of the German armies. has started for
the eastern front in connection with
the Russian offer of a truce. He is
said to be accompanied by a numerous
staff.
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