Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-27
FRANCIS ANSWERS
OLSHEV|KI CHARGE
U. 5. Ambassador Denies Aid
inq KaIedines or interfering
in Russ Affairs.
ATTACKS STILL CONTINUE

BY ne Associated PreSas
LONDON. December 27.-David h
Francis, the American ambassador TO
Russia, issued on Tuesday q nrm re-
buttal of the charges made against the
American embassy by the bolsheviki. He
declared according to a Petrograd dis
patch to the Times, that he ana his
staff never interfered with Internal
affairs In Russia. nor aided Gen kale-
dimes or any other faction.
The ambassador published letters
showing that the funds employed In
the transfer of automobiles were drawn
for the Red Cross and not for the en-
bassy, and that the automobiles were
removed for the purpose OF prevenIihs
their falling into the hands OF the Ger
mans in the event Of further mVa-
sion Of Russia
Gets Floral Offering.
A deputation of Russians visited the
American embassy on Monday. according
TO Petrograd dispatch to the Times, ana
presented a floral offering to Ambassaoor
Francis in recognition OF his enorIs 10
obtain a million pairs OF shoes ior railway
men, their wives and families.
The boishevik newspapers commune TO
print revelations Of an alleged American
plot to support Gen. kaiedines, acGo ruins
Post, dated Tuesday. So far as AmDas-
sador Francis Is concerned, the dispatch
adds, the whole ridiculous charge faIs
to the ground before the straightforward
statement issued by the American am
bassador on Tuesday. Col Kolpashnikon
never applied to the ambassador for any
fund for any purpose, although fuily EN-,
powered to draw as needed on the Red
Cross account, he being CONNECTED with
the American Red Cross
Trotzky Without Evidence.
Leon Trotzky's charges against Kol-
pashnikoff and American representa-
tives in Petrograd, the correspondent
lions unsupported by evidence of any
kind. The correspondent says that Col.
Kolpashnikon assisted the officials in
Halifax in examining Trotzky when he
and Trotzky were travelling to Russia
together, and adds:
aThe matter thus comes down to the
personal element. which plays so largo
part in what is called politics In Rus
STA today"
Col Kolpashnikoff. the correspondent
says. is still in prison and has not been
seen by any American official
1t is plain, according to the cor
respondent of the Post, that in some
small bits of friction between the re-
and Russia Trotzky found a peg on
which to hang a series OF baseless
charges against Ambassador Francis
and the American nation. Trotzky's OBJ
ject is to discredit the entente allied
governments through their representa-
tives. and the methods he has adopted
are calculated to intensity the hostility
Of the Russian proletariat toward the
allies which German agents also have
fostered.
New Russ Government.
SEATTLE, Wash, December 81
Nicholas Pegliosvensky, Russian. consul
at Seattle, announced yesterday he had
received cable. sent by way of India,
telling of the establishment of ne1
Russian government at Voronege. the
capital of a province of the same name,
between Moscow and Rontov. on the
Azoy sea.
The cable did not say who led in the
formation of the government. the con-
sui asserted. He said he believed the
leaders in the movement were members
Of toe Re easy pro isional government
who have fed from Petrograd.
Ukrainian Forces Active.
Ukrafnian forces, according to a re-
port received from Petrograd from the
Ukrafnfan rada and forwarded by Reu-
ter, have occupied the headquarters of
the fourth, eighth and eleventh armies
on the Rumanian and southwestern
fronts Those who resisted were dis
was seized. The Ukrainians have occu-
pied the station at Brailof and disarmed
A telegram received in Petrosrad
from Tomsk reports fighting in Irkutsk,
Siberia Cossacks and military cadets
two days with alternating success.