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Show CELEBRATION OF PEACE PARLEYS AT PETROGRAD I.OXDOX. Dec. 30. Dispatches from Petrograd say that the city was given over today to a celebration of the peace negotiations. The watchwords were "Down with international Imperialism !" and "Tjong live the third Intel-Rationale!" A telegram received in Petrograd from Novo Teherkack, capital of the territory of the Don Cossacks, announces that Genera! Gen-era! Kaledines, who recently resigned as he t man of I he Cossacks on the fi round that there was opposition to him at the I front, has been re-elected by it; 2 out of ! a total of tf;S votes. ! Moscow reports that railway communi-j communi-j cation with the south has stopped, mid i that no food supplies are a rr I vine. Tho Petrograd Den states that the I Cossack leader Karauloff. former member of the duma, and his brother have been murdered while journeying to a Cossack j military gathering. ; Teachers on Strike. All teachers, male and female, In the ' municipal schools of Potrosrad have gone : on strike as a protest aaainst the pro- eeedings of the Boisheviki, and intend to ; remain away from t lie schools pending the opening of the constituent assembly. : It is reported that an autonomous government gov-ernment iias been formed in Turkestan, i with M. TvnyssiivaiiT. a member of the ; second iliiina. as premier. The Siberian d;st i K't congress at T'tmk has elected ; a provisional ovvr:i:neiU, headed by President Potauin. wilii a coalition cabinet cab-inet whi, a includes tonsiituttonal democrats. demo-crats. F.r.sign Krylenko, the BoDheviki com-i com-i mimic:- in chief, has sent telegrams to all armv committees regarding the ; Brest-l.itovKk negotiations arid the Rns- siau conditions of peace. lie also has ; is-.Mieu an ord-:r of the day calhiiT on ; troops to turn their arms against those t who are standing in the way of the conclusion con-clusion of peace New Elections Demanded. The Bolsheviki oriran Ixvst ja insists -on new fiectioas o: delegates to the -nn- Mituept assembly in n:s.r:cts where thnso i chosen "do not ex mess popular u ill," such us constitueiv ies where social revolutionaries rev-olutionaries and members of l ho right have been returned. The petrograd council of people's commissaries com-missaries has issued a statement sop-, pi ling tiie council of soldiers' and wnrk- ! men's deiezai' of Vhraine. which has btt n r .i s :ei in opo.--! t :cn to t lie L'k:a!i:i.;n rla, as "The truiv popular p3'Ar" ai.d th re;il L'(jvernm.-::l of this territory. It proini:-vs the new go'-'ein-nivnt irs fraternal b'.;:port in "ah works or" peac," ..-h as C'.r. liandi'm er of bn'I, r'actorp.-s. worksr.ups and banks to ttie working l lasses. New Communication. A J'eirocrud disi'jt'ii from the Associated Asso-ciated Pi ess corre;or:hent under t'aL.ir-djy's t'aL.ir-djy's dale, s;,ys i i:at Leon Trotzky. t!ie kiolbliev ik: fnrt'in minis-- er. is expected to jjo-x'-nt .'i. new Cic.nmunicatlon to the allies Kunday. TmIh dispau-h quotes Karon AdmirMi Ke'erlins;!(, tiie furuu-r German m Hilary h tt.ieiio at Petrograd, and u nienihc-r of tiie German peace delegation, as raying: "Tne Germans quite frankly desire an honorable peace. Tiie present altitude of Russia's allies apparently is a bar to this end. The au itude now between Russia and Germany is friendly, not one of en mity. Germany is nuv waiting to hear the entente allies' terms and war aims." At the im-et ing of the Gerhan and Austrian prisoners of war held in Petrograd Petro-grad Saturday for trie purpose of organizing organ-izing an internationalist propaganda among prisoners in Russia, the Hungarian Hunga-rian officer, Rudniansky, who was elected elect-ed president, t-aid : "Thanks to the Russia n revolution, I can speak my innermost thoughts freely. Our first ( bought now if. general peace and freedom for all lpstions. "Let Russia's Rus-sia's freedom teach us to obtain a like freedom at home," Attacks Czernin. The first speaker, a Czech, made a violent, vio-lent, attack upon Count Czernin, the Aus-tro-lluiigarian premier, who recently outlined out-lined the Austi'o-German peace terms at Hrest-Litovtsls, characterizing Czernin 's pros r-i mine of self-defipition within the limits of the Austrian constitution as an imperialistic fraud. "If a, separate peace is concluded." he said, "we shell be sent to fight against tiie Italian, French and other allies. That we will not do. There was a gendarme of Europe, the Russian czh.v. but lie was overpowered. There remains another gendarme, gen-darme, the dynasty of the Ha-psburgs and the Mohenzollerns, which, too, must be overthrown." During the meeting Trotsky's official newspaper, the Torch, was distributed freely and eagerly scanned by the assemblage. assem-blage. In the course of a n interview Baron Keyserlingk, discussing the details of the enforcement of an armistice In the White i sea and Arctic ocean, said thai the Rus- i sian representatives insisted that Russia must be protected against submarines. Baron Keyserlingk took the position that the Russian fleet must remain inactive and that movement of German naval supplies must also cease. The Germans asked for three days' recess in order to communicate with Berlin before replying. |