The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-12-08
ROUMANIANS JOIN
RUSS FOR PEACE
Berlin Claims Bucharest Ready
to Quit and Asks for
Armistice.
Offer TO YIELD IS REPORTED
Russian Ambassador at WASHINGTON
Returns to U. S. Treasury the
100000 Given to Him for
Advance to Roumania,

Berlin, Dec. 6.-The negotiations be-
tween the Germans and Russians for
an armistice are extending to the Rou-
manian troops, the war office an
nounces.
Returns Loan for Roumania.
Washington, Dec. 6.-The Russian
ambassador has returned to the treas
ury the $5,000,000 given to him for ad-
vance to Roumania.
1t was explained at the Russian EN-
bassy that 1t was impossible to have
the money changed into rubles by the
Russian State bank at Petrograd.
The original plan was to have the
Russian ambassador here receive the
funds in dollars and then to issue an
order on the Petrograd State bank to
transfer to the Roumanian account the
value in rubles. Reports of the Russo
German armistice extending to Rouma-
MAN troops probably will defer dispo.
sition of the money.
Acted Without Instructions.
The state department officially de.
clared that both Lieutenant Colonel
Judson, head Of the American military
mission in Russia and Maj. M. c.
Kerth, military attache at the Ameri.
can embassy, acted without instruc-
tons from this government in present.
ing communications to the bolsheviki
government on the attitude of the Unit.
ed States toward the effort to effect q
separate peace with Germany.
Major Kerth's communication was q
protest ID the Russian COR ea. u
chief agailist an armistice Colonel
Judson's communication was coifehed
In more lnnlent terms. The action of
the two officers was taken in view of
circumstances and not on instructions
from Washington.
The state department had no dis
patches from Russia. 1t has previous
ly announced that the attitude Of this
government toward the bolsheviki is
one of tolerance, hoping to preserve
what progress has been made toward
democracy in Russia rather than risk
throwing the country back into the
hands of an autocracy by drastic ac-
ton.
Says Russia Will "Come Back"
London, Dec. 6.-The situation in
Russia is unique in history, according
to the Petrograd correspondent of the
Morning Post, writing Saturday, but it
is not yet advisable to attempt to raise
the curtain upon the mysteries of the
tragi comic drama"
The correspondent insists that rus
STA will right herself If generously al
lowed the necessary latitude by the
puzzled allies, and next spring will put
new armies in the field to fight the in
vader with the success that marked
the Russian efforts earlier in the war"
"In the meantime" he adds, "the sit
uation Is extremely curious. Some
force which is above or beyond all the
contending parties is putting the
spokes into the wheels of all Of them"
The correspondent instances the va
rious interferences with the admins
tration without, however, calculating
his suggestion.
kornlIoff Escapes Foes.
General Korniloff, the former COM
mander in chief, who escaped from the
bolsheviki at Mohilev, according to a
Petrograd dispatch to the Daily Mail,
was accompanied by 400 Caucasian
troops. He was at Orsha, north of
Mohilev, on Monday.
The military revolutionary commit
tee in Petrograd, according to Reu-
ter dispatch, has ordered the intern
ment at Krondstadt Of all those who
signed the manifesto issued Sunday
in the name of the provisional govern
ment.
The signers, however, all have left
Petrograd, and their whereabouts have
not been discovered.