Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-26
KOLCHAk REGIME
IN RUSSIA WILL
BE- RECOGNIZED
Council of Four Decides to
Treat With Foes of Boil
shevik Government
QUESTION UP
Teutons Reported From Ber-
lin to Be Willing to
Reduce Army
By Associated Press.

The Council of Four of the Peace
Conference has decided condition
ally to recognize the anti -Bolshevik
governments of Admiral Kolohak
and General Denekine, according to
Reuters Agency in Paris.
The conditions for the recognition
are that, regarding the future of
Russia, these governments agree to
convoke and accept the verdict of a
genuine constituent assembly; like
wise that the League of Nations
covenant and its consequences as af-
fecting the boundaries of the former
empire are accepted.
The constituent assembly is to de-
termine the future form of govern
ment for Russia.
The policy adopted, it is added, will
enable the Allies to recognize and as
sist any force in Russia co-operat-
ing in the struggle against Soviet
rule, because such recognition will
be in force only until such time as
the constituent assembly decided upon
the permanent form of government.
The, regional government will then
expire autom otically
The Allies will not furnish Admiral
kolchak and General Denikine with
troops, but will supply them with
arms, munitions, money and food on
larger scale than hitherto. 1t is
stipulated that there will be no in
reference with the races of nom Rus
sian states recently erected from old
Russian territory.
To Keep German Ships
Official advices reached Washing
ton to-day that full understanding
had been reached by the Council of
Four at Paris by which the United
States will keep all the German ships
seized in American ports when this
country entered the war.
This week, during which it is ex-
pected the terms of peace for Ger
man-Austria will be presented to
her delegates, may witness also the
solution of the problems raised by
the conflicting claims of Italy and
Jugo-Slavia in the Adriatic area.
Paris advices indicate that the
conferees are taking the problem
anew, with Great Britain, France
and Italy seeking to have the secret
pact made among them at Lon
the settlement
Thirteen Notes Submitted
Germany's counter proposals to
the terms of peace dictated by the
Allies are expected to be presented
to the Peace Conference tomorrow
Up to to-day thirteen notes asking
for notifications in the terms have
been submitted, and, in addition to
the formal propositions of the Ger
mans, there may be several sub
sidiary notes still to be transmitted
by the German peace mission.
General Count Max MontegIas,
quoted by a Berlin newspaper as
saying that the terms as they now
stand will not be signed by the Ger
man plenipotentiaries. He contends
that the military clauses of the
treaty will make it impossible for
Germany to maintain order and that
the economic terms condemn Ger
man workingmen to slavery"
To Reduce Hun Army
1t is reported from Berlin that
the counter proposals to be present.
cd by the German delegation will
embody an agreement to reduce
Germany's army at once to $4,000
men, with a further cutting down
of the army to 100000 by the ex-
piration of a year after the con-
clusion of peace.
With the exception of one con-
cession relative to the Sarre basin,
Germany's claims relative to that
region have been rejected. The
Council of Four has agreed that
Germany may create a prior charge
upon her assets or revenues which
may be used in paying for the
mines in the Sarre district, should
the plebiscite to be held in 1894 be
favorable to Germany.
Allies Reject Suggestions
All of Germany's suggestions rela-
tive to her western frontiers have
been rejected in sharp note to
Count Won Brockdorff- Rantzau by
M. Clemenceau. president of the
Peace Conference.
Esthonian forces are officially re-
ported to have broken through the
Pskov front, west of Petrograd, and
to have captured 1000 prisoners. be-
sides great quantity of war ma
terial Further east, the forces of
Admiral Kolchak. of the Omsk
government, are reported to be ap-
preaching Viatka. 1t is expected
that the Kolchak and North Rus
sian forces will soon unite and
then attacks may be made on
Petrograd and Moscow.
Question of Food in Way
Dispatches from the Murmansk
front declare while it is believed the
capture of Petrograd might be
achieved at almost any time, there
is some reluctance on the part of
the Allies to take the city because
of the impossibility of feeding the
population until better lines of COM
munications are opened.