The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-12-24
Pane. psleen.e. Returning

LONDON. Dec 2s.-"Ruastan peace
delegates arc returning 10 FetroErad
according to reports Of the Smolny In
stitute.". said a dispatch from The As
sociat"d Press correspondent in tho
Russian capital dated Friday. and re-
ceived here today. Tho. message sug-
Gestcd no reason for their return and
said nothing about the reported German
rejection Of Russa's terms. It added.
however, that no definite news regard
ing the negotiations was being given
out at tho. Smolny Institute. the head
quarters Of the Bolshcy@li.
Tho story Of the recall OF the dele
gates and the rejection Of Russian
terms has attracted much attention hero
apparently from the fact that the heads
Of some OF the enemy delegations had
not arrived at Brest-Litovsk whom the
report became current. Count Czernin.
AuSrro-Hunearinn foreign minister and
his suite including General RItz!nger
and som- German staff officers. are
now In the city. but the arrival OF ".
Won kuehlemann. the German foreign
minister. has not yet been reported.
Meantime the conflict between the
Ukrarian Rada and the E3olshevlki CON-
lrissaries continues undated. The Ra-
de-. replying to an ult!matum of the
Rolshcvtki. insists on creation OF a fed
oral socialist republic embracing Max
imal!sts and socialists. which II con-
tends alone can he competent to settle
the question OF peace for the whole OF
Russia. The Rada declares itself favor
able TO settling by peaceful methods po-
lir!cal and national questions. hut as
scrts that If the commissar!es. assume
the consequences os civil war II Will
accept the challenge and stop Mt no OBJ
Stacles.
One reason for the quarrel Is tho Ra-
da's refusal to permit hreadstuffs to
be sent to northern Russia In cnnsc-
Quence Of the refusal by tho commits
sares to. issue money to meet tho needs
Of the Jrkraninn government. This
stand. II Is stated. threatens eventually
to starve the north, especially as Cen
eral Dutoffs Cossacks held Chil!abinsk
thus preventing tho transmission Of
supplies from Siberia. In III" meantime
the Ukraine has begun TO Issue Its own
notes.
General verkhov,kI. Kercpsky's min
lister Of war. has offered his services to
the Ukranian government. Most OF the
reports OF the military movements In
connection with the apparently imTend-
ing clash are under Thursdays date.
They include the arrival OF General
Dutoff with strongly reinforced body
of CossaCks at TIA where h" suppressed
RolshevIkt organizations Ind continued
HIS advance to Samara and Saratov. Or
cnlrurg is surrounded by r"ssacks.
J'kranlan troops are said to DO con-
ccntratrd between H"mcl md Balh-
rnatIh. while Bolshnviki forces are gath
cring at Minsk
The MaximalIst troops trying ["
roach kicv were stopped by torn UP
railroad tracks.
Tho Pada Is said to hr I'm complete
control oc Odessa and to have been Join
cd by the Black sra feet. Tho Rot
sheylfI have occupied Prrskurov in Pod
Ola. The Syrian Soviet Is said I" have
disarmed four Cossack regiments t3nrH.
All reports continued disconnected.
however. and often contradictory.
According To dispatch I" IL" Times
from Odessa. liquor lncttng orgies SIM
ilar to those In Fetrograd occurred thor.
with much indiscriminatc shooting. m
cendiarism and destruction nf prop"r'T.
FINALLY. representatives "f tho Soldiers
and wnrkmcn's delegates and the Rada
co-nperated. appointing n committee" I"
restore order.
4 Rcuter dispatch from TctrnErnd re-
ports that Notwithstanding tho stat" ut
ainge, sacking OF wine stores continues
in the capital accompanied 10y III" rio
tous scenes now familiar. Many shops
and dwellings have been rillaccd -
we'll as the Danish Rod Cross. Moh>
have hccn attacked with machine guns
nnd at ono time thor" was II regular
enRa cement In the streets.
TIL" Moscow Soviet has decided t"
establish martial Law bit the reason
for tho action is not stated.
Trouble IS recurring in finlnnd and
serious riuttng has again broken out
ut Aho.
Tho long strained relations between
thc railway union and ih" rCnifnt":"--
irS havr l,rcn broken Hni H." rn'lWa"
mon have moved their hrcdquertCr9 t"
Moscow wh"r" they threaten /" call ~
general railroad strike.
Tho Bn!shcviki military revolutionary
committees in lr,rnrrHd has ceased /"
exist. Explanations for its ah"llInn
vary Ono is that il WIS h"cauS" I
FL lure |" mnintaiu order III l"lr"Er'
and another that il nr;inH Wns Tnlrln-
.ary for III" rurIuS" It rlHriHR gr"h'rr
ruwnr In the hmnds Of committee Of
eight.
Wont Bend tho Rnoe
PETROfiRAp. Friday. Dec. "l.--De-
tailed reports from the special session