Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-22
AVOWS RUSSIANS |
REFUSE TO KNEE[ !
BEFORE THE KAISER
Trotzky Declares Offensive
Peace Terms win Be Fought.
Break Again Reported. !
SOCIAL REVOLUTI0NISTS !
PLAN TO RESIST LENINE
Would Convene Constituent Assem-
bly-Peasants Are Badly i.
Split.
By the Associated Press-

By the Associated Press-
PETROGRAD, December 22.-Leon
Trotzky, the bolshevik foreign minister,
in addressing the council of soldiers and
workmen declared that If the German
emperor offered Offensive" peace terms
the Russians would fight against it. "We
did not overthrow czarism to kneel be-
fore the kaiser" he cried.
Continuing, he said: "Bnt, IL through
our exhaustion we had to accept the
kaiser's terms, we would do SO to rise
with the German people against German
militarism."
VIII Fight Lenine.
NJ Tchernofr. former minister Of ag-
ricuiture. and Nine. Catherine Bresh-
kovskaya and other social revoiutionist
| members of the constituent assembly
have proclaimed their determination
not to submit to Premier Lenine and,
Foreign Minister Trotxky, but to con-
vene tho assembly and to endeavor
through IL to carry out a program az
peace and land freedom.
The total number Of members elected
to the constituent assembly IL now Sss.
but only forty-eiEht OF these have been
| registered as members by the boil
sheviki
Russ Delegation Recalled
| LONDON. December 22.-Ths report
is reiterated today that the Russian del
egation to the peace conferences at
Brest-Litovsk has been recalled because
the Germans would not accept the Rus
sian terms 1t is tho Daily Nails cor
! respondent in Petrograd who now
makes this declaration in . dispatch
| filed on Thursday and just recetveo-
| A long dispatch from the Russian
semi-offictal news agency reveals that
| were their ideas from those OF the
Germans.
Ukraine Joins Kaledinea.
The rada. the governing body Of tho
l Ukraine, apparently Is maintaining its
determined stand toward the bolshevfk
government. 1t is reported that 1t has
converted its sympathies with the
movement -of Gen. Kaledines. the Co.'S
sack leader. into a definite alliance.
Advices received from Russia are to
the effect that the bolshevik commits
| sioners, after receiving the rads's re-
| lection of the bolshevik ultfmatum.
sent another one. giving the Ukraine
further forty-eight hours IN which to
reconsider its refusal to acQutesce in
the demands Of the bolshevik govern
ment.
| Another report received here says
that Odessa now has definitely gone
\ over to the side of the Ukraine. De-
tails Of the capture Of Rostov-on-Don
six days of lighting before the cossecks
entered the town last Saturday. The
Red Guards lost 500 men killed and
| 1000 wounded in the fighting. Tho
cossacks gave short shrift to the Red
| vik chiefs fed from the town on board
! warships. The cruiser Kolkvida
| tKolchida?) grounded in the river and
was destroyed by the Cossack artil-
lery.
Clash at Bolgard.
| There has been no important fighting
at Nakhitchevan. province of the Don.
| where the bolshevik troops have fra
! ternized with the Cossacks A clash
| has occurred between the bolshevikf
| and Ukrainians at Bolgard. Bessara,
bia. The town is on nre.
The Terek and Kuban Cossacks are
reported to be experiencing trouble in
their own territories. the hill tribes OF.
the northern Caucasus having risen. It
is also said that some of the Cossacks
in the Don territory are dissatisfied
with their leaders and are being won
over by the propaganda of the extrenf-
lists.
Combating reports in circulation that
the bolsheviki commissioners have re-
fused to convene the constituent as
sembly, Moses uritzky, commissioner
for election to the assembly. has issued
a manifesto in which he gives ASSURE
ances that the assembly will be sum-
moned as soon as the 400 deputies have
registered themselves at his bureau.
1t is said that a great quantity of
valuable property has been taken from
houses of the rich in Petrograd by the
mobs that have been searching for
liquor Among the buildings sacked is
the palace of Grand Duchess Marie Paw
Iowa. widow of Grand Duke Vladimir.
Special dispatches say that the plum
dered people are absolutely without re-
dress.
Reuters Petrograd correspondent re-.
ports that the premises of the ukrai-
MAN revolutionary staff in Petrorrad
were invaded by the red guard and the
four members who were present Al the
time arrested and taken to the Smolny
institute. the bolshevik headquarters. the
guard then going in search of the re-
naming ukrainian representatives.
Peasants Badly Split.
LoNbOI>, DeCSfnDeT - - The meQa
ger news reports from Petro-
grad indicate a. serious division in
the peasants congress. which has been
in session there for a fortnight. The
right wing. led by NJ. Tchernon, insists :
that all power shall be given to the
constituent assembly. which will decide
upon peace. the land question and other
reforms, while the left Is dominated
by the soldiers and workmen's dele
gates The latter take the position
that the soldiers and workmen's dele
gates should be given authority above
that of the constituent assembly. All
attempts to heal the breach have
failed. The left wing has a slight ma
jority.
Oficers of the Baltic feet have adopt
ed a resolution protesting against the
latest reform which places the supreme
command of the feet in the hands of
the body of elected sailors and makes
all posts elective. The resolution OF
protest declares that the reform if
carried out will paralyze the fleet and
prevent peace on a democratic basis,
because to impotent Russia peace will
be dictated by the imperiaIists Of the