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RUSSIA EXPECTS
LASTING PEhCE:
Believe Agreement VIII Result
with TeuiOnS.
TIE: khhISTiCE BEGINS
BEGINS
Germany Believed 10 Have Already
Transferred All Available Troops to
Ot2er Fronts.

London, Dec. 1S.-The predomin. Il !,
fact as regards the Russian situation
at the moment is the signing Of an
aImistice, which is announced Off :
/ ally 4. the capitals of all the countries
! concerned.
! Tire armistice as announced from
Berlin and Petrograd went into effect
. at no II December II. l. mains in
! force until January IA, 1918, and viii
l be renewed automatically thereafter
J unless seven days notice % the con
/ tra~y is given by either sid. Pea e
ne~oT atoms, according to the agree
| mont are to begin at Onc9)
! According 10 special dispatches
from ?ecrograd, everyone there be-
lieve- that a permanent peace between
! Russ and the central powers WI
result. Correspondents in genera
! treat as reElible the undertaking. of
! Germany and her allies not to wi H.
| draw troops from the eastern front A
! PetrOgr1d despatch says lag masses
. of Germans already have been rCmOv-
! ed, and that probably the Germ
| command has transferred all It pu"-
/ poses TO employ elsewhere. so that
! the plans are not likely to be de-
/ ranged seriously.
| The reported suicide during the ar
i mistice negotiations at Brest-Litov k
| of the Russian General SkGlons ap-
parently has made a conside able i'm
! preston at Petrograd, although the
! Russian national committee jcabineD
! are silent in regard to it,
| A PetrCgrad despatch says General
| Skalons was responsible for the ar
/ mistice conditions, including the evac-
! uatiOn of Moon Sound. which so of
, tended the Germans at the first meet
ing Of the negotiators and rendered
! nugatory the efforts of the first mis-
! sion. General Ska1ons returned most
! unwillingly for the second meeting,
I under imperative orders of his superb
! ors. The correspondent seeks to show
! there is nothing to prove that he COM
! mitted suicide and insinuates he was
! murdered.
The Petrograd railwaymen's union.
according to a Reuter- despatch, has
received a telegram to the effect that
| the Bolsheviki troops in Odessa at
! tackled the arsenal where the Ukrani-
| an Rada was assembled The officials
Of the Rada summoned the Ukranian
troops These attacked the Bolshe-
wiki, who were defeated after street
fighting in which there Were many
casualties on bC%h sides. The sailors
| of the Black Sea feet participated lin
the fighting.
! Afterward the Bia-'' Sea sailors d.
vided the majority going over to the
Ukranians, who are l<eventing the
Bolsheviki from sending troops from
Odessa, against Gaaeral Kaledines.
Is NJ Coz OF last
weeks Bolsheviki announcement re-
garding the arrest of General Kale-
| dimes. The situation in southern Rus
STA continues to be obscure and news
is fragmentary and contradictory.
Communication by rail and wire
with Rostov, in the Don Cossack ter
ritory, where fighting has occurred, is
reported to have been stopped. Ffggt-
ing in the neighborhood of Kharkov is
reported in a despatch to the Daily
Mail filed at Petrograd on Friday, al
though Kharkov, itself is said to be
calm.