Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-01-30
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London, Jan. 29.-The Bolsheviki
foreign minister, Leon Trotzky an
nounced to the congress of workmen's
and soldiers deputies at Petrograd
Saturday night the decision of the
government respecting reprisals
against Rumania. These include tho
breaking off OF diplomatic relations,
the seizure of Rumanian gold reserves
III Moscow and the outlawing of Lieu.
ltenantvsgGeneEal .stcherbatcheff. the
former commander-in-chief on tho
Rumanian front.
Trotzky said the Rumania gold re.
serve amounted to. 1900. 5000
rubles and that the custodian of this
fund had been placed under arrest
1t is understood that General Stch-
erbatcheff has been cooperating with
the Rumanians in disarming Russians
In Rumanla and Besarabia,
According to reports received from
Berlin by way of Amsterdam. peace
negotiations will be resumed at Brest-
Litovsk Tuesday. Count Czernin, the
Austro Hungarian foreign minister,
and DIR. Won Kuehlmann, the German
secretary of foreign affairs. arrived
there Monday and NJ. Trotzky is ex-
pected at early date. Later dispatches.
however, denied that the Russian for.
eign minister intended to proceed to
Brest-Litovsk. Before leaving Vienna,
Count Czernin had an audience with ,
the emperor and he is quoted as say.
ing that he might be compelled TO
rot, Oh,
No Farley With Ukraine.
A Reuter- limited dispatch from
Petrograd says on the authority of
the commissioner of national affairs,
that the commissioners will not nego-
tiate further with the Ukrainlan Rada
and that nothing remains but a relent-
less struggle until victory has been OBJ
tained by the Ukrainian workmens
and soldiers deputies. The bourgeoise
rule of Ukraine, continued the COM
missioner must be completely liqui-
dated and replaced by new socialist
Rada, the basis of which already has
been formed at Kharkov.
Almost three-quarters of the Ger
man troops have been withdrawn
from the Russian front, according to
the newspaper Nasty Vedomesty. No
heavy guns or armored cars are left,
while the number of light guns has
been greatly reduced. Young soldiers
are being removed daily and their
places are being taken by old men and
semi-invalids. The German northern
front is strongest There are no Ger
mans on the southwestern front, and.
although the Austrians there have not
been reduced their heavy artillery has
been withdrawn.
Civil War i'm Finland.
The Petrograd correspondent Of the
London Times, referring to the civil
war in Finland, says that Sweden's
assistance seems to have been asked
by the Finnish senate, and adds that
doubtless many Firms, or at least Fin
nish Swedes, would welcome the. in
tervention of Sweden. An evening
paper announces the arrival Of Swett<
ish troops at Tornea and says that
clash has already occurred between an
advanced guard of Swedes and the
Finnish red guards.
A Stockholm dispatch to the Posi-
says that the Swedish government on
Friday decided to propose that Nor
way and Denmark invite Finland to
cooperate with the three Scandinav.
ian countries regarding legislative
questions.
Outbreak of Disease.
Confirming the outbreak of dis
eases at Petrograd. the Times CORE,
spondent says the population is being
decimated thereby. The epidemic is
attributed to the extreme shortage of
food and adulteration with all kinds
of injurious admixtures. Various
forms of typhus, as well as smallpox,
are rampant. Moreover. extremely
,unsanitary conditions prevail In the
city, while all the organizations con-
cerned with public health either have
been abolished or have v:rtuallX
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