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Show ; Tells People False Rumors ; Are Being Circulated and ! Advises Them to Remain Re-main Calm. I PETROGRAD, Sunday, Jan. 20 Tie Bolshevik! government has issued a Proclamation to th.e people of Pctro-j Pctro-j Erad saying in part: "Enemies of the people spread the report that revolutionary workmen and soldiers have fired on a peaceful . labor demonstration. This is done for , the purpose of sowing -trouble in the ranks of the workers, causing excesses and inciting against tho revolutionary leaders. ; "It has been proved that the au-thors au-thors of these rumors fired at sailors, soldiers and workmen who are keeping order in the city. The central execu-jjB execu-jjB tive has opened a searching Inquiry V and the culprits will be tried by revo-& revo-& lutionary tribunals." jm .The proclamation concludes by ad-mf. ad-mf. vising .the people to Ignore the rumors M ad remain calm, and by. assuring K.. them that order is being maintained by m soldiers, sailors and -workmen. m RADA TO SEND DELEGATES. M PETROGRAD, Sunday, Jan. 20 The K Ukranlan rada of Kharvov, controlled M y the Bolshevik! and a rlvnl of tho H rada of Kiev, has designed three delc-B delc-B Gates to go to tho conferences at w Brest-Litovsk. Tho delegates came to W f?elrSra(l today and conferred with m he Bolshoviki authorities who ox-B ox-B tended them recognition and sent them X to Brest-Litovsk with instructions to B confer with the other Ukranian dele- gatcs and determine who actually rep-m rep-m resents the Ukraine. IB Only fifteen Ukraine members out JBV I a possible 100 attended the open-w open-w lHS of the short-lived constituent as-K. as-K. sembly. COPENHAGEN, Jan. 21.-Forelgn j Minister Trotzky before leaving Brest-I Brest-I Litovsk told Dr. Kuehlmann, the German Ger-man foreign minister, according to a telegram from Berlin, that he was going go-ing to Petrograd for a week to report to the congress of Workmen's and Soldiers' delegates. He is quoted as having added that his departure in no manner indicated a discontinuance of tho negotiations which would continuo during his absence. TAURIDE PALACE CLOSED. LONDON. Jan. 21. The Tauride palace in which the constituent assembly as-sembly met was closed Saturday and notice was posted on tho door stating that no one would be admitted, bays a Reuter dispatch from Petrograd. Tho officer commanding the guard said thfi congress of Soldiers' and Workmen's delegates had dissolved tho assembly. Premier Lenmo Informed a deputation representing a provisional council of Soldiers' "and Workmen's- delegate's that the constituent assembly would not be permitted to re-assembly anywhere any-where butthat Instead there -would be a national convention to bo formed by the forthcoming congress of Soldiers' anil Workmen's delegatos. Othci dispatches filed in Petrograd yesterday say tho Bolshoviki are now hunting out the supporters of tho constituent con-stituent assembly. The correspondent of tho Exchange Telegraph reports the suppression of all Non-Socialist newspapers while Red Guards are searching Petrograd for editions containing con-taining reports of the first session of the assembly which are being destroyed. destroy-ed. Search also Is being made for Boris Savlnkoff, a member of Uio Ker-ensky Ker-ensky government who Is believed to bo in Petrograd. According to ono report re-port the Bolshoviki Jntond to arrest M. " Tchernoff who was elected' dbalr-man dbalr-man of tbo constituent assembly. On the other baud some of the Red Guards havo resigned, stating that thov were misled into the belief that by Joining the organization they would assist in furthering the cause of the revolution whereas they considered the action of the Bolshoviki toward tho constituent assembly to bo opposed to the prlnci-ples-ot liberty. Apparently .there , Is Utile chance of countering tho measures meas-ures taken against the constituent assembly. as-sembly. ..... |