Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-24
bO[SHEV|K| SEEKING
UKRA|N|AN PEACE
Gen. Antonoff to Visit Kiev in
Effort to Adjust Diff
ferenceS.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, December 24.--Gen Anton
OF. the military commandant of the
Petrograd district. has gone to Kiev,
says Petrograd dispatch to the
Times, with instructions to negotiate
with the Ukrainian rada in an effort to
settle the differences between it and
the bolshevik government
Petrograd dispatches report attempts
are being made by the bclshevik com
missaries to negotiate with the
Ukrainians for a settlement of the diff
ferences which have arisen.
1t is also reported the authorities of the
new Ukrainian government are ready
to accept proposals looking toward a
peaceful arrangement The movement
for harmony is attributed by the corre-
spondent of the Times to the fact that
the growing dangers of the situation
are being recognized to an increasing
extent by the bolsheviki
For the same reason, he says they
are believed to be inclined to modify
their attitude of hostility toward the
constituent assembly. which is likely
to meet within week.
Concurrently with these statements
appear numerous further reports of
military activity on the part of the
Ukrainians and Cossacks. and of the
sending of more bolshevik troops
southwark to oppose the. IJkrainfans
There are disconnected rumors of fur
ther fighting. but apparently there have
been no hostilities on large scale or
of such a nature as to indicate impor-
tant developments.
Discuss German Arrival.
Many news dispatches from Petro-
grad speak of the supposed impending
arrival of the Germans there, which is
said to be the universal topic of dis
cussion in the city. but every one seems
to have a different version Many of
these stories center around the reported
concentration near the capital of a
large force of released German war
prisoners. to whom arms are being
handed over. according to some of the
reports. Referring to these rumors. the
Petrograd correspondent of the Post
says that unquestionably thousands of
German war prisoners are focking to-
ward Petrograd from all parts of Rus
Sia, but he believes that at present a
more important phase of the situation
is the active and thorough manner in
which the Germans have been pushing
trade with Russia since the frontier
was opened He reports they are MAX
ing the most of Il commercial opDortu-
nifty. such as the world has never seen
before, inasmuch as Russian industries
are nearly dead and the Germans have
no competition.
The Germans have refused to admit
nj. Zinovieff, a close associate of Nioklai
Lenine. and other bolsheviki whom the
soldiers and workmen's delegates wish
n n hot
In the German army. They also de-
ciined to admit Trotzkys newspaper.
printed in German, for army propa gan
da- The bolsheviki are negotiating with
tne th sociai revoiutionists Of the left for
the formation of a coalition govern
ment. wherein the latter will hold the
ministries of the interior, justice, posts
and national affairs
To Try Countess.
The trial OF persons who have been
arrested by the bolshevik authorities
was 10 nave begun yesterday before n
military revolutionary court. according
to delayed dispatches from PAtrograd.
The first person to be tried. these re-
ports said. would be Countess Panin
rormer assistant minister of education,
who was arrested for refusing to turn
over to the bolsheviki the funds of her
department The council of Petroprad
University on Friday elected the count
eSs an honorary MEMBER in recognition
of her educational work
A dispatch from Tashkent, capital of
Turkestan, describes the lynching nm
der horrible circumstances, of cen
korovitchenko, who was Kerenskv,s
military commander in the province
The Italian embassy has made form
al protest against the pillasiug hv
armed men of the apartment of the
embassy's first secretary
1t is reported that the Germans are
troops from the Russian north
ern and western fronts to the south-
western and the Rumanian fronts.
Want Democratic Peace.
PARIS, December 23.-Leon Trotzky
the bolshevik foreign minister, accord,
ing to a note issued by the Hayas
agency, called on Joseph Noulens, the
French ambassador to Russia, and ex-
planned that the bolsheviki wished to
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