The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-28
KAISER ACCEPTS
ARMISTICE OFFER
MADE BY RUSSIA
Germany Sets December 2 for
Peace Negotiations:
Evidence Grows, Plain People
Are Becoming Aroused.
PROCLAIM NATION A TRAITOR
Demand Overthrow of Lenine;
for Real Coalition Cabinet.
Slav Army Starving and Torn
by fractional Strife.
Grows, Plain People
Are Becoming Aroused.
PROCLAIM NATION A TRAITOR
Slav Army Starving and Torn
by fractional Strife.

10Y TIC ASSOClaLS1l ITeSS.J
Germany has consented to negotiate
Immediately for an armistice ION all
fronts" of the belligerent countries,
according to a Petrograd dispatch re-
porting on the outcome of the visit of
a Bolsheviki military delegation to the
German lines on the Russian front
for negotiations with the German
military authorities.
The Bolsheviki formula has been
the proposal of an armistice to all the
belligerents with view to the conclu-
sion of a general peace. The proposal
has fitted in well with the admitted
German desire for achievement of
peace by agreement" as indicated in
the 1916 peace offer and in the Ger
man reply to Pope Benedict's peace
note, as well as in the reichstag reso-
luton of last July.
The entente governments and the
United States on the other hand have
shown no disposition to negotiate
while the free people of the world''
continued to be menaced by a vast
military establishment controlled by
an irresponsible government, in the
words of President Wilson'S allusion
to the German war machine in his re-
ply to the pope. The Bolsheviki
armistice propositions were submitted
to the embassies in Petrograd, but so
far as has appeared they have not
been replied to by the respective gov
ernments.
Set Date for Negotiations.
Petrograd, Nov. 28.-Representa-
tives sent by Ensign Krylenko, the
Bolsheviki commander-in-chi of the
Russian armies, have been received
in the German lines and informed by
the German commander that the Ger
mans have officially consented to i'm
mediate negotiations for an armistice
on all fronts of the belligerents'
countries.
for conference for negotiations of an
armistice.
5th Army to Choose Delegates.
Petrograd, Nov. 27.-The Russian
fifth army announced today that it
purposes choosing parlia amentarians to
be sent to Germany.
This is the second instance of an
ann ouncement of definite support of
the Bolshevih program by the mill
tary, the first being the second army
whose action was previously reported.
Petrograd Nov. 2s.-It is an
nounced officially at the Smolny insti-
tute, the headquarters of the Bolshe-
Wiki, that representative of Ensign
Krylenko, the Bolsheviki commander
in chief, have crossed to the German
side and entered into negotiations
with the German military authorities
People Becoming Aroused!
London, Nov. 28.-The Russia OF
the plain people seemed to be coming
to its senses today, but very slowly.
At the moment when authoritative
repotts declared German staff officers
were openly in conference in Petro-
grad with the Lenine-Trotzky Bolshe-
Wiki government half a dozen dis
patches from other sections of Russia
reported the growth of a formidable
movement for overthrow of the Maxi
malists and establishment of a real
coalition government, expressive OF
Russia's people as a whole.
A Haparanda dispatch today report
ed that the committee on public safety
ICnntinnnd on Papo Trun