The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-12-27
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!, RUSSIAN PEACE
FOR NO LAMENTATIONS; sLAv
DELEGATES RECALLED
DRUNKENNESS PEIN0GRAD.
Mob Raids DistiIlery Where Fifteen
Soldiers Drink Themselves TO
| DeSth-strests Run BED With
In Wine From Cellars.

4 WIZ .EtNtHt SSii~fS'f ..
London, Dec. %. The bolshevIki
government has decided to allow the
Former car of Rush and bis family
to leave the country and seek refuge
abroad, said dispatch from Petro-
grad.
Petrograd, Dec. 22.-There is an I'M
confirmed report here that the Brest-
LitoVsk peace conference Inns terni-
mated in quarrel. 1T Is said thatithe
Germans, ridiculed & sRpssia's peace
terms; whereupon. the Russian delega-
ton was recalled.gs trtseGfG
Little News In London.
London, Dec. 22 Little news re-
garding the peace negotiations has
reached London. Foreign Minister
Trotzky is said to have told NJ. Nou-
lens, the French ambassador to Petro-
grad, that If Germany rejects q peace
without annexations and indemnities 1t
win end the negotiations. 1t is note
worthy now that In the Petrograd dis:
patches every government act is at
trfbuted to Trotzky. X f'%aA
Streets Run Red With Wine.
Petrograd, Dec. o. -Incessant fight
ing has occurred in many parts Of Pc
trograd In connection with the efforts
to check drunkenness and prevent mid
ing of wine cellars. A mob raided n dis
tillery where TO soldiers drank them
selves to death. Fifteen persons were
killed and wounded when an armored
motor car attacked the: distillery,
which was set on FIRE. The fire de-
partment was prevented from extin-
gushing the blaze by r6wdies and
many persons were burned before the
situation was brought under, control.
The streets are running with wine in,
many sections where the soldiers are
pumping wine out of the cellars to pre-
vent disorder as8 ~
Butcher Red Guards.
London, Dec. %, The rada, the gov
erning body of the Ukraine, apparent
ly Is maintaining its determined stand
toward the bolsheviki government
1t is reported that II has converted
its sympathies with the movement OF
General Kaledines, the uCossack lead
err into definite alliance. Wa
Atlyices received from Russia are TO
the effect that the bolsheviki commits
sfoners after receiving the rada's re-
lection of the bolshetiki ultimatnm,
sent another one giving the Ukraine a
further 4S hours in which to reconsid-
err Its refusal to acquiesce in the de
mands of the bolshevid government,
XIII 800 Reds; Wound 900. .1''
Another report received here says
that Odessa now has definitely gone
over to the side of the Ukraine! Y De
tails of the capture of ROstoyLon-Don
printed in Petrograd show there were
six days of fighting before the Cos
sacks entered the town last saturday
Yhe red guards lost 800 men killed
and 1000 wounded In the fighting. The
Cossacls gave short shrift to the red
guards, whom they hate. The boil
sheyiki chiefs fled from the town on
board warships The cruiser Kolkvida
(Kplchlda? grounded in the river and
was destroyed by Cossack artillery.
Bessarabian Town on Fire.
There has been no important fight.
ing at Nakhitchevan, Province OF the
Don, where the bolsheviki troops have
fraternized with the Cossacks. A clash
has occurred between the bolshevikl
and Ukrainians at Bolgard, Bessara.
bia. The town is on fire.
Mobs Pillage Homes Of Rich.
1t is said that a great quantity Of
valuable property has been taken from
houses of the rich in Petrograd by the
mobs that have been searching for
liquor. Among the buildings sacked
IS the palace of Grand Duchess Marie
Payloyna, widow of Grand Duke
Vladimir Special dispatches say that
the plundered people are absolutely
without redress. rrFs Y
Allies Recognize Ukraine. p.
Copenhagen, Denmark, Dec. 22.-
The entente allied powers, according
TO the Vossiche-Zeitpng Of Berlin, on
December 10, accredited legations to
the government Of the Ukraine.
ALICE NIELSEN NOW A BRIDE.
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