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Show SOVIETS LOSING. Cable advices from London and other European centers agree in the opinion that tho Bussian soviet government is preparing to propose that the allied governments negotiate for peace on terms which will include tho departure under safe conduct of the bolshevist leaders from Russia and the overthrow of tho soviet system. The bolshevist propositi, it would appear, would commit, com-mit, tKo soviet government to a cessation cessa-tion of the so-called "terror," the suppressions sup-pressions of executions and the surrender surren-der of the government into the hands of the moderate socialists. The cable reports bear out in part a rumor in circulation some months ago to tho effect that one of the reasons prompting tho allies to withhold political politi-cal recognition from the all-Russian government at Omsk over which Admiral Ad-miral Kolchak presides was the belief that the soviet government was weakening weak-ening and that a new regime, if it could be set up in Russia, would command greater support ,from the European Russians Rus-sians than would be possible under a Kolchak dictatorship. Official dispatches dis-patches confirm the indirect reports that the soviet government is losing power and prestige. Soviet government dispatches themselves suggest a steadily stead-ily diminishing hold on tho region dominated dom-inated by Lenine and Trotzky. If proposals actually como from the red leaders in Petrograd and Moscow it is inconceivable that tho allies will fall short of meeting the world's expectations. ex-pectations. Only the surrender of authority au-thority into the hands of responsible Russians will satisfy the friends of orderly or-derly government everywhere. The personal safety of the men who have plunged Russia into the vortex of ruin and bloodshed is a secondary consideration. |