Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-14
PEACE TOFOLLOW [
IF ARM|ST|CE PACT ,
assigned IN EAST
Irotzky Says BoIsheviki Dele
gates Are Empowered to En-
ter Into Final Negotiations,
RUSS TROOPS ORDERED
TO EvACUATE FINLAND
Lenine Regime Claims Military Sue
cesses Against Counter
Revolutionists. .
By the Associated Press.

Revolutionists.
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, December l4.-Leon Trot.
zky, the bolsheviki foreign minister, sc.
cording to Reuter- dispatch from Petro4
grad, announces that if an armistice for
the eastern front is signed at Brest-
Litovsk the Russian delegates are eni-
powered to enter into peace negotia-
tions.
The Russian authorities have or
dered the release of all civilian Ger
man prisoners in exchange for 1000
Russian officers in German prisons. ac-
cording to dispatch from Haparanda
printed in the Dagens Nyheter Of
stockholm. and forwarded by the cor
respondent of the Morning Post
1t is reported reliably. the dispatch /.
adds, that Russian troops have been
ordered to evacuate Finland. The com.
mander of the fortifications at Svea-
borg is said to have acknowledged Of
|ficially the independence of Finland
Two Towns Occupied.
Bolsheviki troops have occupied Tam
anovka and Kaluga, according to q
Reuter- dispatch from Petrograd.
,Tamanovka is near P;e,,oroa ~
kursk province. about $50 miles south
of Moscow. There is railroad town,
named Kaluga, IN the province of the
southwest of Moscow
Tasnanoyka was occupied by troope
from Peiroerad. while haiuga was cap
tureg Witnout mucn ngnting. Inc counter.
revoiu.,on.y uoops esle were dasa[meo
sastaai rn1 - anu DoistiesiAi autnorit'es
The Commissioner win, .tbe F,l.c,rt -.
fleet have teleeraphed asking for the i'm.
mediate dispatch by land and water or an
Black SEA detachments now ashore. They
NieO 74k f0r = 3Axga number OF fnarhiqo
e1nA Ine cosnHne1ioneN report tnnf mfil>
norsd ss. eass !. $500
the Don, according TO wireless ritcssaee
Pnutsr.s $3.50 =. seo@s.opos
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Boishev1k1 Claim Victory.
PETRoGRAD Thursaays Dec.,,,..
IA n.m.-In the b.tt,e ,e.r p;.lL
|
sorou' accoToins 70 poisneVlkl STAN
report, Gen. Kornilofrs Cossacks were
defeated They retre,ted 10 ya.,,.rk.
-... -..'S'-' :.
In connection with the battle at
Rostov the evening newspapers report
the Cossacks as victorious. the bolshe-
Wiki forces having retreated across the
Don river to Nakhitcheyan.
fighting says that the Kornilofr forces
T,se aesr. m,s aaSs .aat prasoners.
disapneared
A description of the Bostoy fighting
says that shells fred by bolshevilsi
gunboats IN the river missed their OBJ
J.ee; CN ~. .aueu an me oaI Iseks OF =
SosssA ua wieh hsa ueciaeo
~ fsina heula, put whicn iougnt
LOT haieoines when aistrouIeo Dy the
shells IL is reported that Gen. kale-
dimes is prepared to negotiate with the
bo1shevikf in order to avoid further
bioodshed around Rostov.
Center of Chief Fighting.
The nghting Win the korniioH and
Kaledines forces centers in the vicinity
.fNp,.,.orod IN ~. oro,h,,.~ s,..-,.t
where Gen. LUTON mas a large force OF
Cossacks. there has been little fighting
sno al nr, enr an'nng his troon. it ~.
o-,aS thst Ka1uea has hean taLan n,
tne po.snev,ni nnlrtinnar aer ths s.th aeiee1 2,
ion
Ihe commahuer ui me niack sea neet
nas na.snst Safedines deciar;np sKaias
dimes. together with the allied imperiai-
lists, has declared civil war"
..t,u ~l
~
The peoples commissaries have ors
dered the arrest OF the constitutional
democrat delegates to the constituent
assembly on charges that they are al
x.,aa;n.s n,ot 80
iied with ehe p,o' son3e -
those arrested inciode Cutler. q Fefro-
grad delegate, who was wounded IN the
knee when he resisted arrest
Forty-hve members of the assembly.
who were under. the protection OF the
white guard" composed OF officers and
Tauride Palace when they attempted to
enter, but held a meeting elsewhers
later in the afternoon.
The bolsheviki have caused the ar
rest of the strike committee of gov
ernmeut employees who declined to
,.,,rl- for the holsheyiki NJ ZfuoyieH