The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-28


had issued proclamation to the army
declaring:
Have Destroyed Russia.
THE Bolsheviki peace proposals
have destroyed Russia. Foreign states
will consider such step as making
Russia traitor. They will Withdraw
their support At the very moment OF
Americas entry, Russia will be desert
ed by everybody-and must Deseech
the kaiser for peace-paying the price
in land and money.
A Petrograd dispatch said M.
Fchernoff, formerly Kerensky's agr1-
cultural minister; NJ. AYlksentieff, who
later held the same post; Prof. Paul
M. Miliukoff, formerly foreign minis
ter under the duma cabinet; Admiral
Verkhovsky, Kerensky's minister OF
marine; NJ. Ivanoff, prominent mod
crate Socialist, and a number of 9TH
ers had met for a conference at army
head6uarters. Their specific purpose
was formation of a substantial gov
ernment.
Army Split by Factions.
At the same time, the Russian
army. now facing starvation thru ut
ter failure of the Bolsheviki gov
eminent" to arrange transportation of
food, is nevertheless torn with con-
fiicting desires in its choice of the
faction which shall govern. Repre-
sentatives of thirty-one military units
were reported in front dispatches to-
day to haye met in conference and
voted to uphold the Bolsheviki lead
ers.
Headquarters committees of the
same armies, on the other hand, wired
Ensign Krylenko, recently named by
the Bolsheviki as successor to Cen
eral Dukonhin as commander in chief
declaring they would refuse to turn
over supreme army authority Ito ir-
responsible persons and factions"
Krylenko has so far been unable to
take over his new post.
The Cadet party, the most moderate
of the socialistic groups, was reporte
to have met in formal session in
Petrograd and thru it's representa-
tives emphatically voted complete
confidence in the allies and in their
cause.
Fear Cut on c. S. Supplies.
Even the Bolshevili leaders are
now fearful that their negotiations
with Germany may result in complete
cutting off of allied supplies Petro-
grad reported a speeding up in the
Trotsky-Lenine efforts to make the
armistice stick. Colonel Judson, of
the American military mission to Rus
STA, was quoted as issuing a statement
denying that he had heard of a stop
page of American relief to Russia, but
pointing out that such a curtailment
OF supplies WOu1O only De natural If
Russia persists in dealing with the
enemy.
British wireless stations today
picked up a message sent by the
Petrograd station and signed Second
Lieutenant Shorin,' which urged all
Russians to participate in a congress-
to be held at Petrograd December 9.
The message asked for replies to a
previous invitation for such participa-
ton.
Congress Called for December 5.
Whether the congress was a
Bolsheviki conceived plan or part of
the growing movement of opposing
political factions to replace the Max
imalists with stable government, was
not indicated.
The Russian constituent assembly
had been called to meet by Premier
Kerensky December s., It may be this
is the Congress referred to.
N. and S. Russia Separated.
London, Nov. 2S.-An cofnmunica-
ton has been broken between north
and south Russia. The foreign en-
bassies at Petrograd are unable to es-
tablish any touch with Odessa or other
points in southern Russia. Official
messages, however, are reaching
| Odessa by way of Persia.