The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-12-31
KALEDTNES Is
REELECTED BY
THE COSSACKS
Had Resigned as Hetman
Because of Opposition
to His Policies
PRISONERS OF
WAR ORGANIZE
Say They Will Refuse to
Fight Against the West
ern Allies

London, Dec. 31.-A telegram re-
ceived in Petrograd from Novo
Tcherkack, who recently resigned as
Hetmau of the Cossacks on the
ground that there was opposition to
him at the front, has been reelected
by 562 out of a total of 63S votes.
Moscow reports that railway COM
munication with the south has been
stopped. sections Of the tracks hav-
ing been destroyed, and that no food
supplies are arriving.
The Petrograd Den states that the
cOssack leader Karauloff, former
member of the duma, and his broth
er have been murdered while
Kaucacia, to Yekaterinodar, to at
tend a cossack military gathering.
All teachers, men and women, in
the municipal schools OF Petrograd
have gone on strike as a protest
against the proceedings Of the Bolsh-
eviki and intend to remain away
from the schools pending the open
ing Of the constituent assembly.
Independent Governments.
1t is reported that an autonomous
government has, been formed in
Turkestan, with NJ. Tvanissavaivff, a
member of the former duma as presi-
dent.
The Siberian district congress at
Tomsk has elected a provisional gov
eminent headed by President
which includes constitutional demo-
Gratis.
Ensign Krylenko, the Bolsheviki
commander-in-chief has sent tele-
grams to all army commands re-
garding the Brest- Litovsk negotia-
tons and the Russian conditions Of
peace. He has also issued an order
OF the day calling on troops to turn
their arms against those who are
standing in the way of the conclu-
sion Of peace.
The Bolsheviki organ Izvestia in'
sists on new elections of delegates
to the constituent assembly in dis
tricts where those chosen do not
express popular will such as con-
stituencies where social revolution
aries and members of the govern
ment have been returned. The
Petrograd council of peace commits
saries has issued a statement sup
porting the council of soldiers and
woTlGmen's delegates OF Ukraine,
which has issued a statement sup
porting the council of workmen's and
soldiers delegates of Ukraine, which
has been established in opposition to
the Ukrainian Rada; as the truly
popular power" and the real gov
eminent of this territory. 1t promis-
es the new government its fraternal
support in "all works of peace" such
as the handing over of land, fac
tories, workshops and banks to the
working classes.
A Petrograd dispatch from The
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Saturdays date says that Leon
Trotzky the Bolsheviki foreign
minister is expected to present a new
communication to the allies Sum
day.
At a meeting Of the German and
Austrian prisoners of war held In
Petrograd for the purpose Of organic
ing an internationalist propaganda
among prisoners in Russia, the Hun
garian officer, Rudniansky, who was
elected president, said:
Thanks to the Russian revolution
I can speak my innermost thoughts
freely. Our first thought now is gen.
eraI peace and freedom for all ma
tions. Let Russian fr0cdom teach
us to obtain a like freedom al
home.
The first speaker, a Czech made a
violent attack upon Count Czernln
the Austro- Hungarian prime minis
ter, characterizing CZernin's program
of self-definition within the limits OF
the Austrian constitution as an i'm
perialistic fraud.
IF a separate peace is concluded
he said, I'VE shall be sent to fight
against the Italians, French and 9TH
er allies. That we will not do. There
was a gendarme of Europe-the Rus
sian Czar-but he was overpowered
| There remains another gendarme
the dynasty of the Hapsburgs and
the Hohenzollerns which, too, mus
be overthrown".