The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-12-13
Pc ASIAN IS BREAK
WITH BOLSHEV|K
They Protest Against Armis-
tiCe and Separate Peace
and Warn Against
Lenineites
KALEDINES OPENS REVOLT
Radicals, Defeated in Election
Despite Carrying Cities,
Now Favors Coalition .,
Government.

|
Now Favors Coalition
Government.
BY the Associated Press.
Civil war has broken out in Russia
and the bolsheviki regime apparently
| will be put to the test. The Petrograd
government has issued proclamation
announcing that Generals Kaledlnes,
Korniloff and Dutoff have begun re-
volt in southeastern European Russia.
Bolsheviks Take Field.
The bolshevik announcement De
| clares that the constitutional democrats
| are assisting the hetman of the Don
| Cossacks and his fellow military LEAD.
ers, who are said to aim at cutting OIL
| food supplies and in Selling power from
| the Black sea to the Ural mountains.
| as Well as in the Caucasus BolsheVlkl
| troops have been ordered to take the
| field against the counter revolutionists.
General Kaledines is said to be col
| lecting his forces and 1T is inferred
that their detectives include Moscow.
| General Dutoff is leading the revolt IN
| deavoring to cut the Trans Siberian
railway at Tcheliabinsk. Two towns IN
| the Caucasus are being besieged by
forces under General Korniloff.
| In Orenburg, the bolsheviki leaders
! have been arrested and the soldiers
! under them disarmed. In the new Ukra-
MAN republic the middle class is said
| to be assisting General Kaledines in
| opposition to the workmen's and sol
| dierS' councils.
| The proclamation of bolsheviki de-
! nounces the constitutional democratic
| party and its leaders, including Michael
! Rodzianllo. the former president of the
\ duma. and Paul N. Milukoff, the former
] foreign minister
Berlin. Dec. MILITARY officials Of
| the central powers have signed an
| armistice with the. Russian and Ru-
| manian armies on the Rumanian front
| between the Dniester river and the
mouth of the Danube the war office
| officially announced today.
| Petrograd, Dec. 1.-THE committee
| of the peasants council today issued
| manifesto repudiating an armistice
| with Germany and strongly appealing
to the people against the bolsheviki
| and against a separate peace with Ger
| many.
Bolsheviki Defeated.
Haperanda, Dec. 1.-THE bolsheviki
| are ready to agree to coalition gov
eminent, according to word brought
from Petrograd today. Returns from
| the Russian-wide elections showed
that the Trotzky Lenine government
has been overwhelmingly rejected by
| the Russian people at large. Their ma
| jorities at Petrograd and other large
| cities are reversed in the rural COM
munities Faced with this overwhelm-
| ing vote, the bolsheviki agrees to submit
| to a central committee of peasants and
| workingmen combined with other po-
! litical parties.
Chinese troops have entered Hardin
ana japanese troops have entered Vlad-
| ivostok to afford protection from dis
| turbances, according to announcement
| by the Petrograd official news agency.
Petrograd, Sunday Dec. 9.-The
| provisional government of Siberia has
| ordered the stoppage of food supplies
| for European Russia, particularly Pet
rograd, on the ground that they may
reach Germany.
London, Dec. 1.-THE counter re-
| volt in southeastern Russia, under the
leadership of Generals Kaledines. Du-
toff and Korniloff, apparently is aimed
at setting the authority in that region
and in cutting off food supplies from
Siberia, according to the proclamation
I of bolsheviki government. General
kaledines, forces are menasing Ekateri-
aoslav, Kharkov and Moscow. In the
| province OF Orenburg the bolsheyiki
nave been oyerthrown by General Du-
| toff
Blame Peoples Enemies. S
Tcheliabinsk, an important railway
| center IN northeastern Orenburg, is be-
sieged by General Dntoffs troops. In
| the Caucasus, General Karauloff is at
lacking Tchechunrov and Ingusher
The proclamation says the enemies of
| the people" have undertaken a last at
tempt to destroy the cause of peace
and says that the constitutional demo-
cratic party is providing the means for
the revolt. h 3