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Show RUSS EMPIRE BREAKING DP Bolsheviki Politicians Paying Little Heed to Disintegration or Where If Will End. ISSUE A MANIFESTO Events Deplored in Sweden German Acts in Serbia Will Stir Whole World. LONDON, Dec. 4. An armistice between be-tween Russia and Germany has been signed at the headquarters of Prince i Leopold of Bavaria, says an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Amsterdam today. The armistice is valid for a period of 48 hours. LONDON, Dec. 4. The establishment establish-ment of a Tartar republic in the Crimea is announced, according to the Petrograd correspondent of the Times who adds that the details are unknown. un-known. In this connection the corre' spondent refers to the declaration ol independence made by the Caucasus and the secession of Siberia. He declares de-clares it is difficult to say where th process of disintegration will end. I appears to cause little concern to th politicians in power who are wholl absorbed in the peace program. Tho CrimeaT "a. peninsula pfojcTml into the Black sea, is the scene of th Crimean war. It is about 9,900 squar miles in area and has a population o ahnnt -100.000. most nf -nrhoni nrr Tar tars. Thero are also Greeks, Gormans, and Bulgarians. The Tartars settled there in the thirteenth century. j j Manifesto to Austro-Germans. p LONDON, Dec. 4. The Maximalists government, says a Petrograd dis-j1 patch to the Daily News, has issued a i ' manifesto to German and Austrian 1 soldiers which will be distributed in ( 1 great numbers by airplanes and other! means to the Austro-German army. The manifesto sets forth the aims of : the Bolsheviki with a list of social,' economic and political measures they already have taken. It also appeals to I the soldiers to help them end the war,) promising that if they assist peace will bo declared within a few days and the other nations will join. Sweden Deplores Situation. STOCKHOLM. Dec. 4. Camillej Huysmans, secretary of the Socialist j Internationale, according to an inte.--1 view printed in the Afton Tidningen, deplores events In Russia as maklngj tho peace outlook darker. Even if Germany could withdraw all her troop i from the eastern front, he says, shel would still lack the material superior-' ity necessary to overcome the resistance resist-ance of the allies. Therefore, he concludes, con-cludes, the war Is likely to be prolonged pro-longed for months because of the recent re-cent happenings in Russia. M. Huysmans, who is on his way to Holland, is the bearer of a report to , the Dutch-Scandinavian committee re-; garding German atrocities in Serbia. He declared, according to the Afton Tidningen, that the report was of such I a nature that it would arouse a cryl of indignation from tho whole world. Mediation Offer Denied. STOCKHOLM, Doc 4. The Swedish foreign office authorizes the Associated Asso-ciated Press to deny tho report published pub-lished in Paris and elsewhere to the effect that the Swedish legation in Petrograd offered, or is about to offer its services as intermediary between the Bolsheviki government and Germany.. Ger-many.. BATTLE IS IMPENDING PETROGRAD, Dec. 4. A battle between be-tween detachments from the Petrograd garrison, commanded by Ensign Kry-lenko, Kry-lenko, and Cossacks is reported to bo impending at Vitebsk. According to a telegram from Krylenko's adjutant, the Cosaacks havo cathored on both flanks and in the rear of Krylenko's j forces. A circumstantial report is being circulated cir-culated that General Kornlloff, former J Russian commandor-in-chlef, who led) an unsuccessful revolt against thei Keronsky government, escaped from custody last night |