The Washington times., 1917-12-18
TWENTY.SIX RUSSIAN
PROVINCES REFUSE
B0LSHEVIkl RULE

STOCKHOLM, Dec. 1s.-The Maxi
malist regime is slowly but inevitably
riding to a fall.
Reliable Information from travel
ers reaching here today. as we'll as
anti-BolsheYiki newspapers Struggled
via Haparanta, indicate even the Pet
rograd garrison no longer supports
the Lenine-Trotsky ring.
Twenty-sfx OF Russia's provinces and
territories have formally refused rec
ognitiOn OF the Bolsheviki govern
ment" Every Bolsheviki claim from
PetrOgrad must be heavily discounted.
Terrorism In PetroErad.
Terrorism reigns in Petrograd. The
cleverest intriguers OF the OLD Rus
sian regime are aiding the extremists
in playing on the minds OF the ignor-
ant masses OF the soldiers by fairy
tales that there will be an Immediate
revolution in Germany. The date set
for opening OF the constituent as
sembly was the occasion for a mon
steT demonstration In Petrograd in
favor OF this meeting. Not only was
the meeting suppressed. but the Boil
shelviki have not permitted any news
OF it to be sent out. The demonstra-
tors expressed strong condemnation
Of the Bolsheviki and tried to wreck
the assembly.
Turn Down Troops.
That Maximalists feel they can no
longer rely on the Petrograd garri-
son. once their greatest source Of
power, is indicated in notice that Let
fish troops have been ordered to su-
persede them and are now policing
the city. Such known German provo
cateurs as kommisarOf, Ortof and
Uritski are now Bolsheviki police
chiefs. The notorious pro-German
agent, Scheur, was present at MOhileff
on the day general Dukhonin was
murdered. and in Petrograd the anti
BolshevikI forces whisper that it was
Scheur who engineered the assassIna-
! ton.
KerenEky Assembly Member.
Kerensky has been chosen a mem
Der of the constituent assembly not
only from Samara. but as a delegate
representing the entire SOuthw estern
army.
Mass meetings in denunciation Of
| the Bolshevili rule are becoming fire.
quent in Petrograd. Workmen and
/ soldiers held one there last week, at
which the labor leader, RCretcIli. an
griIy warned the Bo!sheviki that they
must not dissolve the assembly. Lead
{ ing educational, technical and journal
! istic institutions have issued similar
/ proclamations defying the Lenlne-
! Trotsky combination thus to defeat
7 the VIII OF the people.
Meanwhile The Bolshevilli are dea-
perately trying to coax over to their
camp some Of the old revolutionary
Z leaders Vladimir BOuretsef. custo-
! dian OF private archives under Ke-
renElIy and a veteran Of early reyo-
| iutionary activities. and George PIE
/ chanoff, another social revolutionary.
/ both Of whom are now confined in IS.
/ Peter and Paul fortress because OF
their support OF Kerensky. were offer
ed their liberty under certain condI-
/ tions which would make 1t appear
I they supported the MaXimalists. Both
/ refused.
Provinces Refuse SubmIEsIon.
| The provinces Of Bessarabia. Wat.
4 Ia. Kaluga. Kostroms. Novgorod. Nj.
( zhni- Novgorod. Orlon. Riazan. SimbriIi,
/ Smolensk. Tausir. Tver. Tobolsk. lula
/ and Cherson and the territories Of
Trans-Baikal. Semiritch, Ural. va
| kulsk, Kutano. Amur, VladivostOk.
! Ekaterinoslav, Samara and Kursk
/ have refused to acknowledge the Boil
sheviki authority. The MaXimalists, II
was stated here today. have dissolved
the entire Red Cross and medical
service on the northern front