Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-12-21
news review OF
The PAST week
COSSACkS UNDER kORNiLOFF
AND KALEDINES FIGHTING
THE BOLSHEVIk.
LENINE'S RULE TOTTERING
Germans Prepare for Great Offensive
on Western Front-Haig Repulses
Their First Attacks-ItaIians Still
Holding PiaVe River Line-Our
War Preparation Methods
Are Being Investigated.
BY EDWARD w. PIckARD.

Specializing on what has happened
in Russia and what is about to happen
has become a favorite occupation OF
the rest of the world. Dispatches
from Petrograd, where the means OF
communication are controlled by the
bolsheviki, are wholly unreliable, and
news from other sources is fragmentary
and conflicting. At this writing the
facts appear to be about as follows: In
southern and southeastern Russia the
Cossacks, who stand for law and or
der, are fighting the bOlsheviki forces;
in Petrograd and Moscow Lenine and
his crowd are maintaining thenlelves
in power by using the strong hand, ar
resting and numbering their opponents
and bulldozing the constituent assem-
bly,, which began it's sessions; the Rus
sian armies on the east front, follow
ing the arrangement of an armiStice,
are rapidly disban0ing, and the Rou-
manians were forced to accept an arm
istice by the action of their allies; but
the negotiations for peace started by
the bOlsheviki have run against a Snag
in the extraordinary demands made by
the Germans; many different parts of
Russia have declared their independ-
ence, and Siberia shows signs Of re-
verting to the rule of the deposed cZar !;
VladivOstok, where are immense guam
titles of supplies sent by America and
the entente allies, is patrolled by Japa-
nese troops, and Harbin is being pro-
tected by Chinese soldiers.
If this is correct statement of con-
ditions at the close of the week, it
would be bold man who would pre-
dict the immediate future.
Reports of Battle Contradictory.
According to official bolsheviki dis
| patches from Petrograd, the Cossacks
! under Korniloff were defeated early in
the week near Bielgorod, but another
account of the battle said Korniloft
| routed his opponents, that. many OF
| them Joined his forces and that he
surrounded the others and dealt with
! them very drastfcally." General Kale
| dimes, the Cossack hetman, also is ac
tive in southern Russia and it is sale
to be his hope, with the aid of the al
| lies, at least to shut the Germans ou
| of the food-producing part of the coun
try.
Wireless reports from Rostov, which
did not reach the outside world unit
Thursday, said Kaledines was besieg
ing that city and that within Rostoy
the Cossacks had been fighting the
| I
quarters. At the same time a trans
port manned by bolsheviki was BON
harding the Kaledines forces.
Bitterly disappointing to the bolshe
Wiki must be the German demand
made in the peace negotiations, and a
may be the kaiser's purpose in bein
so severe. His commissioners are re
ported to have insisted that German
shall not give up any Russian territor
she now occupies; that PetrOgrad mus
be evacuated until peace is concluded
that the Ukraine shall be ceded t
Austria-Hungary that Germany shal
control the Russian wheat market TO
fifteen years and German goods shal
be admitted to Russia duty free. TIL
armistice, it is said, is to continue fo
three months. Germany seemingl
evaded the Russian demand that dul
ing its continuance no troops b
moved to other fronts, and meanwhfl
has been transferring hundreds G
thousands Of soldiers to France an
Italy.
Germans Preparing for Great AttacE
All the signs during the early part c
the week led to the belief that tn
Germans were preparing for suprem
effort at some point of the west from
Allied aviators observed long moto