The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-12-20
Def HURLED
AT BOLSHEvIK
BY UKRAINE;
COSSACkS WIN
Rada Refuses to Permit Ex-
tremists to Enter Territory
in Pursuit Of Anti-Revolu-
tionists.
kALEDINES IS ACTIVE

PETROGRAD, Wednesday, Dec. 49,
--Orenburg Cossacks opposing the
Bolsheviki have occupied Tcheliabinsk
q junction on the Trans-Siberian rail.
road. according to report received by
the Den.
(By Associated PressJ
A state Of siege has been proclaimed
In Petrograd and the Ukrainian rada
has refused to obey an ultimatum pre-
sented by the Bolsheviki government.
Disorders in the capital. due. 1t Is said,
to the looting OF wine cellars and
shops, made necessary the proclama.
tion of state OF seige.
Relations between the Ukraine and
the Bolshevih government have not
been cordial. The Ukraine has refus.
ed to permit Maximalist troops to
cross its territory to attack General
Kaledines and several days ago Boil
sheviki troops attacked the Rada as
1t was sitting in Odessa and were de-
feated by Ukrainian troops.
The Bolsheviki government has &C
cused the Ukrainian rada of being
friendly to the constitutional demo
Gratis and the Cossacks. the main fac
tors behind the counter.revolution.
Bostov-On The-Don, recently report
ed captured by the Bolsheviki. is now
said to have been occupied Monday by
the Cossacks, of General Kaledines,
who, according to another recent ru.
NOR had been arrested by his own Of
ficers. The Cossack leader, accord
ing to despatch reaching London
from Petrograd, has proposed to the
Bolsheviki that civil strife come to an
end by declaring the independence OF
the Don territory and providing
against Maximalist Intervention
there.
PETROGRAD, Wednesday, Dec. o.
The RAda. the governing body Of the
Ukraine, has sent negative answer
to the ultimatum Of the CouacN OF
Peoples Commissaries, the Bolshevik
government. E-'ss aars
The UkrainiAn Rada and the Boil
sheviki government in Petrograd have
been at odds since the successful revo-
luton of the Maxmalists early in No
vember. The ultimatum referred to
probably is the demand by the Boil.
sheviki that the rada permit its troops
to go through the Ukraine to aid In
putting down the Kaledines revolt.
In its official announcement con-
corning the counter-revolution and
since that time. the Bolshevik govern.
ment has claimed that the Ukraine
was aiding the Cossacks and the con-
stitutional democrats.
A Petrograd dispatch dated last Fri
day, said that Bolshevik units at Kiev,
the capital OF the Ukraine, had been
disarmed by the Ukrainians and sent
to their homes. Bolshevik troops, ac-
cording TO a dispatch received in Lon
don on Dec II, attacked an arsenal in
Odessa, where the Ukrainian rada was
assembled. Ukranian troops were
summoned and after street fighting
the Maxmilists were defeated. The
same dispatch reported that major
ity of the sailors were defeated. The
same dispatch reported that majority
OF the sailors of the Black Sea fleet,
had gone over to the Ukrainians.
The Ukraine. which means from
tier, Is part of the old kingdom Of
Poland. II is made up Of parts Of the
governments OF Poltava, Kiev, Podolia,
Kharkov, Ekaterinoslav and Kherzon.
These governments have a combined
area of about 1877 900 square miles and
a population Of about 25.000,000.