OCR Text |
Show RUSS REPORTS I VERYC0NFUS1NQ I Various Stories Regarding Generals Kaledines and Korniloff. WATCH BOLSHEVIKI Despotic Regime Established IH Under Guidance of Lenine and Trotzky. LONDON, Dec. 15. Press dispatch-os dispatch-os from Petrograd throw little light on IH the military in southern Russia. The H official statements issued in Petrograd ' are confusing and there are various I reports regarding General Kaledlnes and General Korniloff, whoso present whereabouts and fortunes arc not jH known definitely. "The fog of war haa BH settled down over all Russia," says the j Petrograd correspondent of the Post, "although very little actual warfare has developed." The people of Petrograd aro said to be more interested in the attitude of the Bolsheviki toward the constituent assembly than in the Russo-German BH negotiations or civil war in the south. The Bolsheviki are still represented as VH being determined to prevent the con- ftv stituent assembly from taking on any PH complexion except a reflection of their ' own vfows, but there apparently is a - sharp disagreement among the lead-jers lead-jers a3 to the methods;-and angry dis-cussions dis-cussions are reported to have occur- All advices agree that force is tho PH only law in Russia Today and the PH strongest force for the moment is J wielded by tho Bolsheviki who under 1 the guidance of Lenine ami Trotzky IPjS , are said to have established a despotic regime against which many of tho Bol- sneviKi arc murmuring. ppj According to the Post's correspond-ent, correspond-ent, virtually every newspaper in Rus-sia Rus-sia has bee nsuppresscd excopt thoso favorable to or controlled by the Bol-sheviki. Bol-sheviki. The banks continued to be closed. The railway men's union hith-erto hith-erto more or less neutral, Is being PH brought under Bolsheviki Influence. "On the' other hand signs of good discipline are not wanting," the dis-patch dis-patch to the Post continues. PH The same correspondent points to PH the covert machinations to restore tho IPH monarchy. Lenine is an invisible mys-tery, mys-tery, inaccessible and closely guard-ed. guard-ed. having given up making speeches and now shunning publicity. Trotzky, on the other hand, speaks frequently PH and is very accessible. PH It is noted that, although the Ger-man Ger-man and Austrian governments an- nounced the resumption of armistice (negotiations on Thursday and their adjournment until Friday, the Russian j commissaries issued no report regard- I ing these developments. 1 Ambassador Francis has telegraphed ! to the Amorican consuls at Harbin and Vladivostok to intervene. At the Smolny institute, the Bolsheviki head- 'quarters, it was stated that if tho American had been arrested it wasa mistake and he would bo immediately released. (in 1 |