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Show CHAOS REI6NS IN BUSSJffl CAPITAL Opposition to Bolsheviki Is Growing; Well-Dressed Citizens Robbed. LONDON', Jan. 2$. The latest reports received here frcm Kritish correspondents in Petrograd eay that conditions there arc steadily becoming worse. Opposition to the Bolshevik government Is growing, principally because of the recent murder of two former members of t lie Kerensky rahinet. iThe Bo!eheviki are bringing many troops from the front, apparently for the protection pro-tection of the government members. 1 Crowds of persons assemble at the street ! corners to listen to sidewalk orators, many of whom openly denounce the Bol-I Bol-I shvik regime. j The police have disappeared and it is I a daily occurrence for soldiers In aulo-; aulo-; mobiles to pull well dressed citizens into the cars, to divest them of their outer ' garments and leave them half naked in the snow. I No family In T'etrograd Is ailowed to occupy more than four rooms. A simple meal costs from to isO rubles. Economic conditions are in a state of complete chaos. Postage stamps of the czariEtic regime are made to- serve for small change. Similar conditions exist at KronstadL, where the banks have been sacked and their officials turned into the streets. A Reuters limited dispatch from Pet-rograd Pet-rograd quotes an announcement signed by II. Joffe, chairman of the Russian peace delegation at Brest-Lltovsk, that : the Bolshevik government has recognized ja new delegation from the people's sec-ire sec-ire tari at of the workmen and peasants of the Ukrainian republic. This delegation ! is to participate in the Brest-L,itovsk J negotiations instead of the delegation j from the Ukrainian rada, which, Mr. j Joffe says, represents the Bourgeoisie. |