Evening journal., 1917-11-22
RUSSIA recalls
100000 TROOPS
Situation Becomes Even
More Grave as Bolsheviki
Moves for Peace
WEALTHY ARE
THREATENED

LONDON, NOV. 22.-The Bolshevik |
apparently are doing their utmost for
a separate Russian peace. although re-
ports Of some OF their latest move
menis are discredlted by the Russian
Embassy here. The extremists in Pet
roersd also appear TO be planning still
further grave steps against the wealthy
classes. The food situation grows in
creasingly serious AS an added step
IN their supposed peace program the
Bolsheviki are said 10 have ordered the
Withdrawal Of 100000 Ukranian troops
from the front This may leave a large
section Of the line unguarded against
German invasion.
Private advices from Petrograd say
external order reigns and that no pog-
roms have taken place. Negotiations
between the Bolshevlh and other So
cialist parties were broken up today on
account Of the irrconcllable attlture
Of Lenine Of Trotzky. A majority OF
the workmen and soldiers are said 90
support Bolshevih government. while
lhe rest Of the population is said to
be doing everything possible 10 Inn
pede their activities.
Conditions at Moscow continue grave.
The town Duma has been dissolved.
but Is trying to continue its authority
through a special committee. Mayor
Roudenen is reported In hiding. De
iachments of sailors forcibly prevented
departure Of an armed train for Peiro-
grad. A Swedish report says General
kaledlnes. with an army Of Cossacks.
Is moving against the city
order has been restored in odessa,
ihe revolutionary committees having
como to a temporary agreement.
OF conditions in other cities little IS
known.
A dispatch to Stockholm tells OF a
revulsion Of feeling against the eXtrem-
lists and says this sentiment is spread
ing. A breech in The Workmen's and
Soldiers organizations throughout the
country is threatened through the OK
islence Of two central committees each
claiming authority as the duly consti-
iuted body and denying the rights OF
the other Tha new recent Congress Of
Wortmcn's and Soldiers Delegates and
which gave birth TO the present gov
nrnmental regime assumes TO super
sede another similar organization
which dates back to the months im-
mediately following the March revolu-
tion. These bodies are currently re-
rerred TO as the frst and second CEN
rial committees.
Tho second central committee, II Is
announced, proposes 60 assemble all
he Workmen's and Soldiers Delegates
Nho took no part I'm the last Con
grcss and to attempt to weld them into
/an organization which will Tight the
domination of the BolshevlN. The
leaders of The committee assert that out
IF 100 organized Workmcns and Sol
iors' Councils only approximately one
hundred participated in the last Con-
eress among the absiainers being a
very large majority of the army coun-
Ills.
After the arrest Monday OF vladimir
purishkevich, a former member Of the
Duma. who is charged with being at
the head OF a monarchist plot, a letter
found in his possession addressed TO Cen
eral kaledines. the Cossack leader, was
published. Aftcr describing political
conditions I'm Pelrograd the latter as
serls that officers and military cadets
are organized and are only awaiting the
arrival of the General, details OF whose
movements are asked.
The Foreign Ofilcc has been taken
over by Tr0tzky. Sub-Seceiary Nera-
ton. who has had charge since the ar
rest of NJ Tereschenko, formally sur
rendered control and departed along
with the other employees. Military stan
headquarters work IS reported TO be
at a standstill except the business of
army supply.
The Bolshevik have issued a warning
TO the wealthy classes and their seryi-
fors. whom the extremists accuse OF
inclting strikes in the state and mu-
nlclpal services. The warning says;
you are playing with fire. You will
be the first to suffer from the famine
that is threatening the country and tho
army. You viii be deprived of the right
Of receiving products. All your stores
win be requlsitioned and your property
c0nhscated."
The Bolsheviki leaders are holding out
10 their supporters the hope that the
prolelariat Of other countries will start
sympathetic revolutions on the Russian
model Thus their decree says:
The German aud Austrian Socialists
hail the BolsheviH revolution. The
French Socialists greet the Bolsheviki
In their newspapers"