Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-28
Crowded With Refugees.

Rega, Reval and Limbach were re-
ported as crowded with refugees from
the surrounding country nd officials
of the British naval forces in the Bal
tic have suggested that the aged, the
children and the sick be moved to
the Island of Osel. in the Gulf of Riga.
where it was said, 100000 refugees
could be cared for.
The Russian embassy received a re-
port from the minister of foreign af-
fairs of the Russian government at
Omsk that Siberian troops command
ed by Gen. Pepeliaeff captured the
city of Parm December "a. This was
said to give the loyal Russians COM
mand of the railroad between Petro-
grad and Siberia from the Ural
mountains to Perm and to extend
their control over European Russia
to point near the farthest advanced
line of the government of the north
ut Archangel
More than 5000 bolshevists were
taken prisoners during the days
fighting, the message said, and a
great quantity of booty, particularly
guns and munitions. captured. 1t also
was reported that a large number of
bolshevik red guards were cut off be-
tween Perm and Kungar.
Petrograd in Chaos.
reached the State Department yesterday
describes conditions in Petrograd as
desperate. The captain of a Swedish
steamship which has just reached a
that the men engaged to load his ship
were SO emaciated they could hardly
work six hours daily. They were so
hungry that they eagerly seized food
from garbage barrels.
Bolsheviki Approach Allies.
LONDON. December e7.-The allied
governments since Christmas have
again been approached by the bolShe-
vik government of Russia regarding
terms of peace. These differ in no re-
spect from those put forward by NJ.
Litvinoff, formerly bolshevik am
baSSador at London, through the Nor
wegian government in November.
The proposals have met with no re-
Spouse. as they emanate from a gov
eminent which is not recognized by
the allies. The whole Russian ques-
ton is at present under discussion
among the allied governments.
Pichon's Statement Discourages.
PARIS. December os-The recent
announcement by Stephen Pichon
tente had decided against extensive
military intervention in Russia al
present has had a discouraging effect
upon former PremierS Lvoff and Ko-
kovsoH and other prominent Russians
who are now in conference in Paris
This may be said despite the fact tina,
they did not expect an immediate re-
Spouse to their appeals, because of the
lack of unifcation of the forces op.
posed to the bolsheviki and the ina.
bility of the remote provisional gov
ernments to coordinate their move
mentS.
Former Premier Lvoff. chief spokes.
man of the Russian group in Paris
urges against delay in any extension
of the entente military movemen,
there because it would tend to enlarge
bolshevik territory and would play
into the hands of the Germans, who
are planning for the domination OF
Russia through cooperation with the
bolsheviki.
Entente Policy Criticised.
PARIS, December 27.-The an
nouncement by Foreign Minister Phi
chon that the entente policy was not
TO undertake Immediate military in
PREVENTION in Russia has called forth
protests from the Paris newspapers
The Temps says that the allies in per-
hitting the bolsheviki. with German
assistance, to ravage and destroy
those sections opposing bolshevisn1
are sacrificing the peoples who Nigh,
aford a oasis for the reconstruction