The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-18
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and territories have formally refused
recognition of the Bolshevih gov
eminent" Every Bolsheviki claim
from Petrograd must be heavily dis
counted. Terrorism reigns In Petro-
grad. The cleyerest intriguers OF
the old Russian regime are aiding
regimists In playing on the minds OF
Ignorant masses of soldiers by fairy
tales that there will be an immediate
4 revolution in Germany. The date OF
the opening Of the constituent as
sembly was occasion for a monster
demonstration in P~etrograd in v
Of this meeting. Not only was the
meeting suppressed, but the Boil
| sheviki have not permitted any news
of it to be sent out. The demon
strators expressed strong condemna-
ton of the Bolsheyiki efforts to wreck
the assembly.
That the maximaIists feel they can
no longer rely on the Petrograd gar
rison, once their greatest source OF
power, is indicated in notice that
Lettish troops have been ordered to
supersede them and are now policing
the city.
Such known German ~provocateurs
as Kommisaroff, Orotoff and Uritski
are now Bolsheviki police chiefs.
The notorious pro-German agent
Scheur was present at Hohileff on
the day General Dukhonin was muir
dered and in Petrograd the anti
Bolsheviki forces whisper that 1t was
Scheur who engineered the assassin
alton.
Kerensky has been chosen a mem-
- - o3st,o,t nrcanhIv mot
only from Samara, but as a delegate
representing the entire southwestern
army.
Mass meetings In denunciation OF
the Bolshevik rule are becoming fire.
quent in Petrograd.
Workmen and soldiers held one
tn e last week, at which b labor
leader, Baretelli, angrily warned the
Bolsheviki that they must not dis
solve the assembly. Leading educa-
tional, technical and journalistic in
stitutions have issued similar procla-
nations, defying the Lenine-Trotsky
| combination thus to defeat the peo-
! pies will.
Meanwhile, the Bolsheviki are des-
perately trying to coax over to their
camp some Of the old revolutionary
leaders, Vladimir Bourtseff, custod-
ian of the private archives under
Kerensky, and a veteran of early
revolutionary activities, and George
another social revolution
airy. both OF whom are now confined
in SITS. Peter and Paul fortress be-
cause of their support OF Kerensky,
were offered their liberty under Ger
tain conditions which would make 1t
appear they supported the maximal-
lists. Both refused. The provinces OF
Bessarabia, Viatka, Kaluga, Kost-
roma, Novgorod, Nizhni-Vovgorod,
Orenburg, Orloff, Riazian, Simzirk,
Smolensk, Tauris. Tyer, Tobolsk,
Tula and Cherson and the territories
of trans-Batkal, Semiretch, Urai.
Yakulsk, Kutano, Amur, Vladivostok,
E~katerinoslay, Samara, and Kursk,
have refused to acknowledge the Boil
shev1ki authority.
The maximalists, it was stated here
today, have dissolved the entire Rel
northern front
Four More Arrests.
PETROGRAD, Dec. 1S.-Arrest of
former Manager Pepine OF the gen
eral treasury, and Skvordsoff, Chats.
labanoff and Baiabanoff, ex-directors
of the ministry of finance, at a meet
ing of the upper classes" was an
nounced by the official news agency
today.
Election Results.
PETROGRAD, Dec. 1S.-Latest re-
turns indicates 1852 revolutionary So
cial;sts, ninety-six maximalists and
thirteen cade cts as the makeup Of the
constituent assembly.
Cossacks Win Victory.
PETROGRAD, Dec. 18.-The Co.'S
sacks ~reoccupied Rostoff today.
Reports received here declare they
disarmed the red guards OF the Boil
sheviki.
Rostoff-on-the-Don is one of the
most important commercial cities of
southeastern Russia. 1t is in the
territory of the Don Cossacks, first