Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-12-11
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ing the means for the revolt. Thu
proclamation reads
While representatives Of the con
gress Of worlmen's and soldiers dele
gates and the congress Of peasants
deputies were negotiating to secure
an honorable peace for the exhausted
country, the enemies of the people
the imperialists, the land owners, the
bankers and their allies, the cossack
generals, have undertaken a final at.
tempt to destroy the cause of peace
wrest the power from the hands of sol.
diers and workmen and the lands from
the peasants and to compel soldiers
and cossacks to shed their blood for
the benefit Of the Russian and
allied imperialists.
BoLSHEVIkI LIST "RERELs."
General Kaledines on the Don, and
General Dutoff in the Ural province
have raised the flag Of revolt. The
constitutional democracy party is pro-
vidmg the necessary means to enable
them to carry on the fight against tho
people. The Rodziankos, the Milu.
koffs, the Gutchkoffs, and the
Konovaloffs seek to regain pow
er and with the aid of Kale-
dimes, the Korniloffs mad the Dutoffs
are endeavoring to turn the cossack
laborers into an instrument for achiev-
ing their criminal aims.
General Kaledines has declared q
state of war in the Don region, in him
dering the supply of bread to the front
and collecting his forces, thus menac-
Ing Ekaterinoslav, kharkov and Mos.
COW. General Korniloff, who fled from
prison. has arrived at his side-Korni.
loft. who In July introduced the death
penalty and conducted campaign
against the revolutionary power in
Petrograd.
REDS SOLDIERS pisARMED.
In Orenburg General Dutoff has ar
rested the executive and the military
revolutionary committee, has disarmed
the soldiers and is endeavoring to cap
ture Tcheliabinsk in order to cut off
the supply of bread from Siberia to
the front and the towns. General
karauloff is attacking Tchechenrev
and Ingusher in the Caucasus.
The constitutional democrats arc
the principal leaders of this rising and
The bourgeois is supplying scores Of
millions to the counter revolutionary
generals. The bourgeois central COM
nittee of the Urkaine republic, which
Is waging a struggle against the Uha-
Infan workmen's and soldiers councils,
Is assisting General Kaledines in draw
ing troops to the DON region and is
the workmen and soldiers
council from distributing the neces.
sary military forces throughout the
Ukraine for the suppression Of the
kaledines rebellion.
APPEALS TO PEOPLE.
"The constitutional democrats, the
worst enemies of the people who to-
sether with the capitalists of all coun-
,ries. prepared the present world war,
are hoping that as members of the
assembly, they may be
able to come to the assistance Of their
generals, the Kaledines, the Korniloffs
and the Dutoffs in order to strange
he people with their aid"
The proclamation then makes an ap-
peal to the people to sweep ava" these
enemies" of their cause and aannounce
hat the necessary military dispositions
las been made to suppress the upris-
ng. 1t concludes with the following !
lecree.
STATE OF SIEGE.
n. Declaring state Of siege In all
he regions of the Ural and Don pro-
'inces and wherever counter revolu. |
ionary detachments are discovered.
"2. Orders to local revolutionary ,
;arrison to act with all frmness
gainst the enemies of the people
Without waiting for orders from the su-
rene authorities.
"3. Forbidding negotiations with or
ttempts at mediation with the lead.
n Of the revolt.
"a. Threatening the most severe
enlistment for any assistance given
he revolt by local populations or rail.
7ay employees.
IS. Outlawing leaders Of the con-
piracy.
&C. Promising fraternal support to
very Cossack laborer to cast off the
oke of the Kaledines, the Korniloffs
nd the Dutoffs.'"
ANTl.eERMAN MOVE GROWS.
Petrograd, Dec. 10-Fears that the
olsheviki will dissolve the constitu-
emit assembly If they are opposed
herein by majority, are expressed
/ manifestos issued by various nom
olshevik socialist bodies. The CEN