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Show BOLSHEVIK! II POSSESSION OF VWOSTOK United States May Be Compelled Com-pelled to Take Measures to Protect Great Quantities Quan-tities of Munitions. ARMISTICE ALONG RUMANIAN FRONT '" Teuton Attempt at Fraternization Frater-nization Repulsed; General Gen-eral Korniloff Said to Have Joined Kaledines. rETKOGRAD, Thursday, Dec. 6. Fifteen hundred Bolsheviki troops arc reported to have arrived in Vladivostok. Vladivo-stok. The above report, if true, possibly would indicate that the Bolshe.viki government gov-ernment is now iu coutrol of the Trans-Siberian Trans-Siberian railway, which runs from Vct-rograd, Vct-rograd, a distance of H521 miles, to Vladivostok, Russia's principal seaport on the Pacific. WASHINGTON, Dec. 7. If Bolshev-iki Bolshev-iki troops aro moving into Vladivostok the United Slates may be forced at any time to adopt a definite policy toward the radical government at Petrograd. Great quantities of munitions and supplies sup-plies shipped by the United StateB and Japan before the overthrow of the Kerensky government are stored at the Pacific port awaiting shipment over the congested Trans-Siberian railroad, and it is well understood that the allied governments do not intend to pcTtnit them to fall into 'hands that might prove hostile. RUMANS FORCED TO JOIN RUSSIANS , ' IN ARMISTICE .TASSV. J.'. .-. u-.i i, Thursday, Dee. 6. It has ....... P dcilcd that the Rumanian Ru-manian ir..p h.ui associate themselves them-selves with ; b'ussiaus in the proposed pro-posed artm:.t:-T. 1 hough the Rumanians have re.iect.eil every attempt at fraternization, frater-nization, says an official announcement announce-ment nr-n'e here today. Hostilities were suspended today on the whole front. The official announcement follows: 'fhe 7'usian command having proposed an armistice to the enemy and !" iho Rumanian troops form-ire; form-ire; ,:nt ot this front, it was de-'irli.l de-'irli.l that the Rumanian troops ',;,! associate themselves with : ' . proposition. As a consequence host i!ii ic were suspended on the whole of the front. The. enemy's troops loudly mani-:': mani-:': d their satisfaction and en-deaved en-deaved to approach the. Rumanian ''work system. The Rumanian ..ops ma.inta.uicd a reserved and nguifiod attitude and rejected every ev-ery attempt at fraternization. Joined Kaledines. I'FTh'OGRAD, Tuesday, Dec. 1. It is stated that M. Prokopovitch. former minister of supplies, after having .-igned the recent proclamation in the name of the Keronsky govcrmncu i , insisting in-sisting on the calling of the constituent assen !ily. escaped arrest and joined (ieue.-ul Kaledines. hetniau of tho Hon i ' osspcks in the south. There also ar-nveu ar-nveu at Kaledines 's headouarters fot; : other former ministers of tne provisional provision-al nverninent. Under former proced lire, the five ministers constitute a quorum. It is reported that General Kaledines has conic, to an agreement with the I'kraino government not to invade Ukraine territory. It also is stated that the Pashkiros, occupying parts of the Orenburg. Ufa. Pernio and Samara governments, have declared themselves autonomous and have issued a call for an assembly, which is to convene in iirenburg December 8. Commission Expelled. hOMHiy, Dec. 7,.n ,,,,,-. yfnx. imalist, foree ha occupied the Mario palace, according to a Renter dispatch from Petrograd. and his expcl'cd 'he ail-Russian commission in ,-hnrce of the elections for the con.-t ituont assemhlv. Resentment Against British. LONDON". Pec. 7. The Prtrograd correspondent of the Time? fnys there is only too good reason to con ohora to the statement of Leon Trotsky, the Mob shoviki foreign minister, re.ardini. the (Continued on Fa;c Two.) BOLSHEViKI TROOPS TAKE VLADIVOSTOK x ; (Continued from Page One.) existence of a feeling of resentment against British residents in Russia. The feeling, he adds, is nov.'ise universal, uni-versal, but is growing daily among the Bolsheviki. British workmen in a Petragrad factory lately were warned by their Russian comrades that they had better leave the country, as trouble may be brewing. , Bolsheviki Gaining. LONDON, Dec. T. There . is a profound pro-found divergence of opinion among the Russian armies iu Rumania regarding the attitude they shall take toward the Bolsheviki government, says a dispatch to the Times from Rumanian headquarters headquar-ters dated Sunday. Committees have been formed consisting mostly of interested in-terested Germans who have succeeded in getting a hold on the rank and file. Th correspondent, after reporting signs of disintegration, says the Bolsheviki Bol-sheviki are gaining the upper hand along the whole front. General Rogus-sa, Rogus-sa, commander of the Fourth army, has been arrested by order of the soldiers' committee of that army. Threatened to Fight. LONDON, Dec. 7. A Reuter dispatch from Petrogfad today says: ' ' When General Hoffman (Von Hof f-meisterf), f-meisterf), chief German delegate to the armistice conference, heard the Russian terms for an armistice, he became very indienant and said: " 'If you repeat them we will fight.'" Gives Lie to Story. PETROGRAD, Thursday, Dec. 6. The text of the armistice agreement between the Sixty-seventh Russian division di-vision and the Thirty-first German infantry in-fantry division is printed by the Prav-da. Prav-da. It does not contain a word concerning con-cerning the non-transference of German Ger-man troops to other fronts. The central executive committee of the workmen's and soldiers' delegates has adopted a measure, proposed by the council of national commissioners, for the recall of members of the constituent constit-uent assembiywho, according to Nikolai Niko-lai Lenine, the Bolsheviki premier, "do not express the will of the people." The proiect provoked great opposition on the part of the moderate element of the committee, who termed it an attempt to curtail the rights of members mem-bers of the assembly. Protocols Drawn. BERLIN, via London, Pec. 7. The following fol-lowing official communication was issued todav concerning the progress of the armistice negotiations between the Russians Rus-sians and Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey: The representatives of the quadruple quad-ruple powers and the remaining members mem-bers of the Russian delegation held committee sittings yesterday, at which the drawing of protocols with regard 1 to the previous sittings and lire preliminary pre-liminary work for tlie future work of the full sittings was concluded. Korniloff Joins Kaledines. PETROGRAD, Dec. 7. It is reported that General Korniloff, who recently escaped from Buikoff. where he had heen imprisoned bv the Bolsheviki authorities, had joined General Kaledines. hetman of the Don Cossacks. General Korniloff formerly for-merly was eommandcr-in-chief of tlie Russian armies. Armed sailors have arrested forty era-plovew era-plovew of the State bank who had refused re-fused to work under the Bolsheviki regime. Will Guard Former Czar. LONDON", Dec. 7. Petrograd advices sav that liie newspaper Pravda. organ of the Bolsheviki government, announced that several detachments of sailors and tile ed Guard have been sent to Tobolsk. To-bolsk. 1500 miles east of Moscow, to guard Nicholas Romanoff, the former Russian emperor. Place for Kerensky. PETROGRAD. Thursday, Dec. p. The temporary independent government which has been'organized in Siberia has elected Alexander F. Kerensky minister of justice jus-tice and is determined to complete a coalition ca-binet. |