Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-11-27
Cossack Leader Controls
Grain Country and Holds.
Nations Gold Reserve.
RADICALS HAVE MADE
A "GHASTLY FAILURE"
Armies on Northern Front Have Had
No Bread for Several Days-Hun-
CRY Hordes May Invade Cities.

Gen. Kaledines, the Don Cossack lead
or a dispatch received in London SAID,
is master of the situation in Russia he
ia in control of most of the grain grow
ing territory in the south and IS SAID
to hold the Russian gold reserve, re-
ported removed from Petrograd a year
before the war broke out.
The Russian soldiers at the front are
reported desperate from hunger, due to
the exhaustion of food supplies, and
mutinies are said to have broken out.
The general situation in Russia shows
little improvement and the country IS
described as being on the verge of civil
war
Efforts of the bolsheviki government
to arrange an armistice continue and
Berlin and Petrograd are reported in
communication by wireless, presumably
in connection with the peace offer of
the maximalists. The I'd Army on
the Russian northern front has removed
its officers, agreed to the bolshevlkl
armistice proposal and pledged its sup
port to the extremists.
The ministers Of the allied powers in
the Russian capital, it is reported unofh-
cially. will demand their passports if
Russia enters into separate peace nego-
tiations.
Radicals Make Chastity Failure.
By the Associated Press.
LONDON. November 27.-The Russian
revolutionists have made ghastly
failure" Of their attempt at admins
tration. according to the Petrograd cor
respondent of the Morning Post, writ
ing under date Of Saturday. he adds
emily hopeless chaos the forces which
made Russia an empire are not Idle and
those who know Russian history under
stand perfectly well how matters VIII
end.
Even as write the situation is be-
coming clear. The elections to the con-
stituent assembly will take place. but
the success of the bolsheviki movement.
whatever that movement may really
cover. as 1t already has damned the
constituent assembly.
Gold Reserve in Safe Hands.
Meantime. would call attention to
the following facts:
The vast gold reserve of the Rus
sian empire, which was removed from
Petrograd to the krem1in in 1913, was
later carried still farther into the in
terror. 1t is in safe hands.
Gen. Kaledines. hetman of united
cossackdonl. is in secure possession
with trustworthy and disciplined troops
of all arms, of all those regions of Eu-
ropean Russia that produced a harvest
this year, and is rapidly capturing those
remaining territories upon which Rus
sia relies for its daily bread.
"a vast union. under the name of
the Southeastern Union. has been
formed. 1t includes the Don territory
a great part of Little Russia. the lower
area which feeds all Russia. This
union is extending and promises to
cover the Siberian corn land.
Master OF Situation.
Gen. Kaledines. holding the gold
reserve and the bread supplies. is mas
serves will accept dictation neither
from Kerensky. Lenine or anybody
else. least of all from Germany.
THE allies may safely admit a bow
ing acquaintance with the curious in
6ividualities thrown up from the
depths by internal disturbances, but
for intimate friendship and future
partnership they must look elsewhere,
and in the meantime they must wait
unconcernedly until their old friends
reappear above the present turmoil"