Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-14
BolsheUiki Claim Cossack
Defeat in Encounter;
Reports Are Incomplete
By Associated Press

Washington, Dec. 14.-The struggle
for power in interior Russia is
growing more bitter. Advantages
in the civil warfare are claimed by
both sides. The BolsheviIxi assert
success in the fighting with General
Kaledines' CoSsacks in the vicinity
of Bielgorod, some $50 miles south
of Moscow while the Cossacks arc
reported victorious at Rostoy-on-
the-Don, capturing Tic city and fore
ing the Bolsheviki troops to retreat
across the Don.
London, Dec. 14.-Bolsheviki
troops have occupied Tamanovka
and Kaluga, according to Reuter-
dispatch from Petrograd. -
IamanoVka was occupied by
troops from Petrograd, while Kaluga
was captured without much fighting.
Ihe counter revolutionary troops
there were disarmed and arrested
anu Bolsheviki authorities restored.
Commissioners with the Black Sea
feet have telegraphed asking for the
immediate dispatch by land and
water of all Black Sea detachments
now ashore. They also ask for n
large number of machine guns. The
commissioners report that military
cadets are attacking Rostov with
armored cars.
Tamanovka is near Bielgorod, in
kursk province. about $50 miles
south of Moscow. There is n rail-
road town named Kaluga, in the
province of the. same name. which
lies about 100 miles southwest of
Moscow.
Petrograd, Thursday, Dec. IA
Civil offenders in the Petrograd
prisons have been removed to jails
liz the provinces to make. room for
counter revolutionary suspects who
are being arrested continually.
Countess Panin, former vice min
lister of public welfare. has been ar
rested. She is charged with having
returned all the ministry funds to the
state bank leaving the safes in the
ministry empty when the Bolshevik
took control
The lodgings of Nine. Kerensky,
wife of the former premier, were
searched to-day by soldiers. She was
told she had better notify Kerensky
to come to the Smolny Institute VOL
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ger of lynching if found.
Tie members of the constitutional
democratic party now in prison will
be tried by revolutionary tribunals
Bolsheviki leaders express the opin-
ion that the probable penalty will
be exile abroad for one year or more.
London. Dec. 1.-THE Russian
authorities have ordered the rele.se
Of oil civilian TriCnnnrc in,
exchange for 1000 Russian officers
iu German prisons, according to
dlsl:atch from Haparanda printed in
the Dagena Nyheter. of Stockholm,
ard forwarded by the correspondent
of the Morning Post.
1t is reported reliably, the dis
patch adds, that Russian troops have
been ordered to evacuate Finland.
The. commander of the fortifications
CdeeG officially the independence of
Finland.
AT sterdam. Dec. 14.-Oficial Ger
ma and Austrian statements saw
that the Russian delegates arrived
at .Brest-Litovsk on Wednesday and
that the armistice negotiations We're
resumed yesterday.
London. Dec. 1.-THE Moscow
Workmen's and Soldiers Council has
suppressed the newspaper Russkoe
Slovo for publishing a rumor that
E,ns,tn Krylenko's seizure of general
staff headquarters was instigated at
German headquarters, according TO
a Reuter- dispatch from Peti ograd.
the office of the newspaper is Dccn-
pied by soldiers and the plant and
the paper had been sequestrated. for
tie needs of the workmen and SOL
diers.