Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-12-21 | Page 1 | Flames of Civil War Spreading in Russia

Struggle in the Southern South-ern Part of the Country Coun-try Increasing in Severity; Se-verity; Maxima lists Hold Astrakhan, Upon Which the Cossacks Are Marching. MONK HEADS ARMY AND WINS BATTLE Extraordinary State of Affairs at Tsaritsyn, Province of Samara; Ukranians Defy Bol-sheviki Bol-sheviki and Proclaim a Democratic Republic. LONDON, Dec. 19, Wednesday. A dispatch to the Exchange TelegTaph company from Hapa-randa Hapa-randa reports that Kerensky with aii army is now marching against Moscow, while Grand Duke Nicholas Nich-olas has gathered a complete army . of royalists in the Caucasus. LONDON", Dec. 13, Wednesday. Dispatches Dis-patches from Pctrograd indicate that the struggle between the Cossacks and the Maximalists in southern Russia Is increasing in-creasing in severity. The correspondent at T'ctrograd of Router's, L-imiU"" telegraphing tele-graphing unrler date of Tuesday, says the flame of civil war is spreading northward along the Volga river from Astrakhan to Samara. The Maximalists hold Astrakhan, from which place the Cossacks were reported on Monday to be twenty versts distant. Fig-htlng probably has now begun. The Maximalists are said to have many machine guns, but are almost without with-out camion. The Cossacks are reported to be equipped with light field guns. An extraordinary state of affairs is depicted de-picted at Tsaritsyn, in the province of Samara, where neither the Maximalists nor the Cossacks have gained the mastery, mas-tery, both being beaten by the forces of Heliodorus, abbot of Tsaritsyn and known as "llladore, the mad monk," who advanced ad-vanced against them singing "Save, Lord, Thy reople!" Dutoff Advancing, Orenburg Cossacks, commanded by General Gen-eral Dutoff, are advancing against Samara, Sa-mara, the Maximalist garrisons en route being dispersed. Cossacks have occupied all the eastern part of the province of Voronezh, a province in south central Russia. Fighting continues at Odessa, where Ukrainian troops hold the arsenal and the telegraph and telephone stations. The municipal theater repentedly changed hands before . finally remaining in the possession of the t'krainians. The Maximal Max-imal is ts bold the port which the Ukrainians Ukrai-nians shelled with heavy and field artillery ar-tillery in response to a bombardment of the town by naval guns. Ukrainians are disarming and removing remov-ing the Maximalist troops in the province of Kiev and Konotop, about 100 miles past of Tchernirov. I Republic Proclaimed. The Ukrainian central Rada lias issued a message to Ukrainians prorlalmlng a Ukrainian democrat ie republic to form j part of an a 11 -Russian fedrral republic. I ponding th- meeting of the Ukrainian j ronstituent assembly in January the Rada i in its message recognizes t he principle of expropriation without compensation of private lands, monastery lands, and some chur- h lands for '.he benefit of the laboring labor-ing classes. n the rxpe.-tation of an early poaee Russia n soldiers i n iiit-reasiiig numbf-rs are leaving the northern front. I "rct-nt tU-crn iv. s a tp bning received from Pet-rogrnd Pet-rogrnd for reinforcements, the soluiprs beini; promised the best conditions and food. Dr. P'rofsky. a Wi urer ;it the Moscow university, has br-en depui o I hy the Rnlsheviki covornnirm to discuss ; pi-'H'-e questions with the 'Jernians at Hrst-litovsk. I Avordir,c to tlip P.Ufsi;n o:Ticj;. riows i asen " rV-ga t--s of the Ukrainian coun-) coun-) i-il of work : lien's and ?oidi -' dHp(ra res rt-ently nt at Kharkov and rpnived I to regard the Rada as a bourgeois onrl 1 (Continued on Page Eleven.) if FUMES BF CBrWffl, SPREAD IN. RUSSIA (Continued from Page One.) anti-revolutionary institution and to oppose op-pose it.