Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-12-11
PROCLAMATI0NS
Only Weapon Thus Far
Used by Bolsheviki.
Meanwhile Counter Revolt in South
eastern Russia Is Reaching Large
Proportions

London. Dec 10-The counter-revolt
in southeastern Russia, under the lead
ership of General kaledines, Dutor
and korniloff, apparently is aimed at
Selling the authority in that region
and cutting off food supplies from 81
IBERIA. According to the proclamation
of the Bolsheviki government, General
kaledineS' forces are menaclng Ekat-
erinoslav, kharkow and Moscow. In
the province of Orenburg the Bolshevi-
XII have been overthrow by General
DutOff
Tchehabinsk, an important railway
center in northeastern OrenhIrg, is be-
sieged by General Dutoffs troops. In
the Caucasus General karauloff is at
lacking Techechenrey and Ingusher.
The proclamation says that the EN-
emies of the people" have undertaken
a last attempt to destroy the cause
Of peace and that the constitutional
Democratic party is providing the
means for the revolt. 1t reads:
While representatives of the Con-
gress of Workmen's and Soldiers Dele
gates and the Congress of Peasants
deputies were llcSOLidtlllS " SCNOlC siti
honorable peace for the exhausted
country, the enemies of the people, the
imperialists, the land owners, the
banks and their allies, the CosSack
generals have undertaken a final at
tempt to destroy the cause of peace,
wrest the power from the hands of the
soldiers and workmen and the land
from the peasants and to compel sol
diers, sailors and Cossacks to shed
their blood for the benefit of the Rus
sian and Allied imperialists.
General Kaledines on the Don and
DutOff in the Ural province have rails
cd the flag Of revolt. The constitutional
! Democratic party is providing the ne
cesSary means to enable them to car
ry on the fight against the people. The
Rodziankos, the Milukoffs, the Clutch
koffs and the konovaloffs seeks 10 re-
gain powers and with the aid Of the
, kaledines, the korniloffs and the Dut-
! offs, are endeaVoring to turn the Cos
sack lahorcrs into an instrument for
achieving their criminal aims.
- General kaledineS has declared d
state of war in the Don region, is him
dering the supply of bread to the front
and collecting his forces, thus menac-
ing EkaterinoslaV. kharkov and Mos
cow. General korniloff, who fled from
prison, has arrived at his side. Gener-
al korniloff who in July introduced the
death penalty and conducted cam
paign against the revolutionary power
in PetrOgrad.
I'm Orenburg General Dutoff has
arrested the executive and the military
revolutionary committee, has disarm-
cd the soldiers and is endea Voring to
capture Tcheliabinsk in order to cut
off the supply of bread from Siberia 10
! the front and the towns. General Mar
auloff is attacking Techechenrey and
| Ingusher in the Caucasus
The Constitutional Democrats are
the political leaders. of this rising and
the bourgeois is supplying scores of
millions to the counter revolutionary
generals. The bourgeois central commit
tee of the Ukrainian republic, which is
waging q struggle against the work
mems and soldiers councils is assisting
General Kalcrines in drawing troops to
the Don region and is hindering the
workmen's and soldiers councils from
distributing the necessary forces
throughout the Ukrain for the sup
"The Constitutional Democrats, the
worst enemies Of the people, VINO togeth-
er with the capitalists Of all countries
prepared the present world war, are hop
ing that s members of the Constituent
Assembly they may be able to come to
the assistance of their generals the
Kaledines, the Korniloffs and the Dutoffs.
in order to strange the people with their
aid"
| The proclamation then makes an ap-
peal to the people to sweep away these
enemies" Of their cause and announces
that the necessary military dispositions
nave been made to suppress the uprising
1t concludes with the following decree
1-Declaring a state of siege in all the
regions of the Ural and Don provinces
and wherever ounter-revolutionarv de-
tachments are discovered
2-orders to local revolutionary garri
sons to act with all firmness against the
enemies of the people without waiting for
orders from the supreme authorities.
3-Forbidding negotiations with or ar
tempts at mediation with the leaders OF
the revolt
4-Threatening the most severe punish
ment for any assistance given the revolt
by local populations or railway employees.
5-Outlawing leaders of the conspiracy.
6-Promising fraternal support to every
Cossack laborer to cast off the yoke of
"the Kalednes the Korniloffs and the
Dutoffs."