The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-12-25
new SUPPORT
aFUES kALED|N
1T0 FRONT FOR
SLAV CONTROL
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Ukraine New Government Re-
ported To Have Turned SYM
patty Into Actual Participation
and Active SUPPORT s4.usi,
ODESSA GOES Oven AND
.,, JOINS WITH ukRANlANS
Two Army Corps Of Te1tous VINO
Were Former War Prisoners
Reported 10 Have Been TAX
en- IN BY Bolsheyiki

ncpVi tcu Y Udtc pCcii dk-
en- IN BY BoIsheyiki
IEoNDo'N, December ~
- (Associated Press ~ Kale-
din is gaining support and pres
tige in Russia and is today the
strongest factor with which the
pro-German Petrograd govern
Inent under the leadership oi
Trotzky and Lenine has to feck-
on, AT the same time the sitiia-
ton is highly complicated as i
is evident there are four sor FIVE
factions in the field all more or
less distinct in avowed. purposes.
GAINS SUPPORT
The sRada, governing body Of
the new Ukraine government is
evidently maintaining determin-
ed stand against the Bolsheyiti,
dispatches from Russia received
yesterday Indicated. It is report
ed that this government has con
verted its mere sympathy with
the movement of Kaledin into a
definite alliance with him and his
forces. E 4 va 81 a
Odessa has gone over sto the
Uktaines, other reports said, and
will probably also cast its lot
with the. Kaledin forces.
According to an article which
appeared in the Berlin Vossiche
Zeitung on December 20, said
Copenhagen dispatches. the En-.
tente Powers have accredited
legations to the Ukraine. 4
BOLSHEyIKI AND HUNS
OF the various forces in the
field there are the Bolsheyiki who
are reported to have been streng-
thened by the released German
officers and soldiers who had
been war prisoners but were
released on the signing of the
armistice. This combination is
said to have greatly augmented
the Bolsheviki, to have won q
victory already against an oppos'
] ing force at Tashkent and to BIZ
neat Pttrograd The fear is eS,
pressed here that it may seize Pc,
trograd and hold the capital fol
the Germans 1t is consideree
that the German leaders are TAX
ing full advantage offered by til,
chaotic state of politics III Russia
KALEDIN POWERFUL /.
Kaiedin IS the commander O
the Cossacks and with the sup
port Of the Ukraine, joined, it j.
said by the Rumanians and Rus
slams along the Rumanian From
and by Odessa this faction ap
pears very strong. General AT
cherhatcheff is said to have beef
named commander by the Rus
sian and Rumanian troops and t
be in command Of that troop.
The Kaledin forces have capture,
Rosteyondon and Petrpgrad despatche
,ay this Was done only after six day
Of hard fightipg, -
Less information has been receive
as TO Kerensky and his loyalists an,
the royalist forces reported in Teeen
dispatches from Russia. 81
The Teuton forces that have joine,
the Bolsheviki and may be in contro
Of its army are said TO humber fail,
1.-TWO army corps. sh. .-5
Rejection Of the Russian peace pro
poaals BY Gsrmaay and the Premise =
present. counter terms are mentiOne'
in other dispatches. % ,.,y
Fioting In RetreFad ~.
Incessant fighting in many parts o
Petrograd is reported in . despatch o
last night. Fhis fighting grove iron
the efforts being made 70 check drunk
enness. The streeta are running deeI
In wine In some sections where the sol
diers are pumping out the cellars Il
cheek the prolonged debaueh.
If IIIt