Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-11-21
I ROTzKY HAS
CHARGE OVER
RUSS FUTURE
Travellers Tell Of RevulsIon
Against New Ruling
Powers.

(N00n)-The foreign office has
been taken ever by Leon Tr0tzky,
sub-Secretary Nerat0ff. who has
had charge since the arrest OF VI.
Terestehenko, formally surren-
dering control and departing along
with the other employees.
Military staff Headquarters work
is reported TO be ut standstill,
except the business of army sup
ply.
The Volna Nar0dna says that within
a few days Lenine and Trotzky will
announce the successful establishment
of workmen's and peasants govern
ment after which it is hoped that for
eign governments will enter into Of
fetal negotiatinos through the new
foreign minister.
Soldiers Against BOlsheyiki.
Stockholm, Tuesday, Nov 20.-Re-
ports brought by the latest travellers
TO reach Tornea from Petrograd indi-
cate that a reyulsion of feeling is set
ting in against the Bolshevik.
Regiments of soldiers have paraded
the streets Of the Russian capital
bearing banners with inscriptions
such as Eve want no separate peace, ;,
down with PetTograd's domination
by a minority party tyranny" and
Nicholas regime was never so, tyran-
nicaI as the BoIsheviki regime"
The central committee of the anti
Bolshevih socialist coalition has
passed d resolution demanding liberty
of the press, the dismissal Of the red
guard and the immediate cessation OF
fratricidal war. Maxim Gorky's paper
and the Volna Narodna also demand
that the red guard be disarmed.
American Minister Morris learns
from a competent source that the food
supply in Petrograd is ominously
short and that the bread ration is now
three-quarters OF a Russian pound for
two days.
Nearly one-third Of the members oil
+ the executive committee formed by the
Maximalists at the outbreak of the
revolt have resigned and it is report
ed that the remainder have conferred
/ Alt LatCt tsAi Ia ma Mug pow VI
Nikolai Lenine, who is now issuing de-
crees altering the fundamental laws
Troops Taken From Front,
| Petrograd, Nov. 20.-The military
chief Of the district of Kiev and the
! temporary governor with their stats
/ are reported to have left their posts
| Ukraiuian commissaries have been ap,
pointed to succeed them and they have
confirmed the independence of tbs
Ukraine
Three hundred and sixty Thousand
/ Ukrainian troops are said to have beer
recalled from the front. This is com
mented upon here as meaning a ser
ious Gripping Of the army and tn,
possible opening of the front TO III,
enemy
The town duma of Moscow has beer
| dissolved by the revolutionary wal
! committee Mayor Doudeneff Of Mos
COW is reported to be in hiding Il
escape threatened arrest An armoreC
| train bound for Petrograd has beeI
captured by detachments of sailors anf
| returned to Moscow.
/ A branch in the workmen's and sol
/ diers' organizations throughout thu
country is threatened through the ex
listence of two central committees
each claiming authority as the dul!
constituted body and denying tn
rights Of the other.
New Central Committee.
The new central committee appoint
ed by the recent congress of work
mems and soldiers delegates ant
which gave birth to the present gov
ernmental regime assumes TO super
sede another similar organization
which dates back to the months i'm
/ mediately following the March revo
luton These bodies are currently re
ferred to as the first and second cen
trail committees.
The second central committee. it /
announced today. purposes to ASSEMBLE
all the wotkmen's and soldiers dele
gates who took no part in the las
congress and to attempt to weld then
into. an organization which will figh
the domination of the Bolsheviki. TIL
leaders Of the committee claim tina
out of 500 organized workmen's AM
soldiers councils only approximate,
one hundred participated In the las
congress, among the abstainers beinj
very large majority Of the arm,
councils.