Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-11
CIVIL WAR At HAND,
BOLSHEV|K| MOVING
AGAINST c'OSSAcKS
kaledines, KorniIoff and Du'
toff Prepare to Fight-Mos-
cow Situation Is Grave.
GERMANS GRASPING
IN ARMIsTICE TERMS
Demand Control of Wheat Market
for Fifteen Years and Would
Hold Ali Occupied Territory.


for Fifteen Years and Would
Hold Ali Occupied Territory.
Meager reports from Russia indicate
that the boIsheviki are meeting with diff
fculty in maintaining control Of Mos"
COW. The situation there is reported
grave with the bolsheviki garrison refus>
ing to obey its commander, who has ORE
dered machine guns placed in the streets
in anticipation of an uprising.
"a Copenhagen dispatch says that the
bolsheviki have ordered troops from the
Caucasus to put down Gems. Kaledines.
K6rniloff and Dutof, while from Lon.
don, it is reported, large forces are be-
ing sent from the Baltic-Black sea front
into the Ukraine and the Cossack prov
inces The bolsheviki government con.
trolls virtually all the direct means OF
communication with the interior of Rus.
sia.
Situation in Moscow.
LONDON, December 1.-THE situation
in Moscow is reported to be gra se. &C
corling to a Times dispatch from Pet
rograd. The poisneviKi- accort ing TO
Petrograd newspapers. have placed ma
chine guns in the streets. as they fear
an uprising of hostile parties. The gar
rison. however, shows signs OF lnsupor-
i'm 10 GlSODeNlnR
the bolsheviki commander, private SOL
dier named Muranoff.
Considerable forces, the dispatch adds.
are being detached from the west front
to be sent against the Cossacks.
Starvation Threatens.
Street fighting has occurred in Mos
COW. and the Swedish consul there has
advised all Swedes to leave the city. ac-
cording to advices received in Haparanda
and forwarded by the Stockholm cor-
respondent OF the Morning Post II 10
added that starvation seems to threaten
Moscow Most of the Swedes there are
said to have taken the consuls advice
The bolsheyfki governnnen nt mas
have been arresting workmen's and
soldiers councils. are trying to disarm
revolutionary garrisons. accoroing 70
dispatch sent from the of1ciai Petro-
grad telegram bureau, and the govern
ment has decided to make an end to the
counter revolutionary movement IL
has ordered enough troops TO suppress
the movement to be transferred from
the Caucasus 1t is explained that the
troons in the Caucasus were chosen SO
as not to diminish the forces on the
eastern front
Cossacks Prepare to Fight.
The Cossacks are preparing to fight.
the Petrograd correspondent OF the
Daily Mail reports. Three trainloads
of Cossacks are said to be at Bielgorod
and three at sunny, commanded by Gen.
korniloff. Extremist red guards to the
number of about LOCO are expected at
Kharkov from Moscow.
The correspondent says Gen. Kale-
dimes. the Cossack leader. is disbanding
infantry regiments in the Don terri-
tory and sending them home on account
of their extremist opinions.
German Peace Terms.
The Petrograd correspondent of the
Times attributes to responsipie
source the statement that during the
informal conversations between the
Russian and German representatives at
Brest-Litovsk. regarding the armistice
on the eastern front, the Germans indi-
Gated that the following points were
likely to be included in any of their
peace negotiations:
Germany to have control of the Rus
sian wheat market for fifteen years.
"All German goods to be admitted to
Russia duty free.
.'No territory now occupied by the
Germans to be surrendered.
The correspondent says the bolshevikt
were disappointed by the reserved at
titude of the German negotiators and
their lack of sympathy with political
idealism other causes contributed to
their depression but it is stated they
are determined to conclude an armistice
at any cost if the latest appeal by the
commissioners to the allies
fails.
Agreement Not Binding.
PETROGRAD, December 9.-A bat
TALON of death" which left Staffka, is re-
ported to have defeated the bolsheviki
troops near the town of Shlobin. in
Mohiley
NJ kamenef chief of the bolsheyiki del
egates sent to negotiate an armistice with
he Germans, said on his return from
that the official sessions of
he delegates were followed by semi-of-
icial exchange of views. at which the
Germans finally agreed not to transfer
nitted. however, that this was not bind
ng.
The Russians. he added. asked to be
permitted to send translatisns of Russian
literature to Germany, and
through that country to the other bellig-
rents The German delegates replied
.hey supposed their government would
consent to the sending of such
literature to England. France and Italy.
out not to Germany.
Defends American Aid.
Nine. Catharine Breshkovskaya. the
.cra ndn,other of the Russian revolution"