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Show RUSS SITUATION HARDIO SOLVE News From Southern Russia Obscure, Fragmentary and Contradictory Communication Com-munication Stopped. LONDON. Dec. 17. The predominant predomi-nant facta as regards the Russian situation sit-uation at the moment Is the signing of an armistice, which is announced official of-ficial at the capitals of all the countries concerned. According to special dispatches dis-patches from Petrograd, every one there believes that a permanent peace between Russia and the central powers pow-ers will result. Correspondents in general gen-eral treat as negligible the undertaking of Germany and hor allies not to withdraw with-draw troops from the eastern front. A Petrograd dispatch to the Times says large masses of Germans already have been removed and that probably the Gorman command has transferred all It purposes to employ elsewhere, so that its plans are not likely to be deranged de-ranged seriously. Suicide of General .The reported suicide during the armistice ar-mistice negotiations at Brest -Litovsk of the Russian general. Skatons, apparently ap-parently has made a considerable impression im-pression at Petrograd, although the Russian national commissaries are silent si-lent in regard to it. A Petrograd dispatch to the Post says General Skatons was responsible for the armistice conditions, including the evacuation of Moon sound, which so offended the Germans at the first meeting of the negotiators and rendered render-ed nugatory the efforts of tho first mission. mis-sion. Insinuates General Skatons returned most unwilling un-willing for the second meeting under imperative orders of his superiors. The correspondent seeks to show there is nothing to prove that he committed suicide which is most improbable and insinuates that he was murdered. There is no confirmation of last week's official Bolshevik! announcement announce-ment regarding ihc arrest of General Kaledines. The situation in southern Russia continues to be obscure and news is fragmentary and contradictory. Communication Com-munication by rail and wire with Rostov, Ros-tov, in the Don Cossack territory where fighting has occurred. la reported report-ed to have been stopped. Fighting in the neighborhood of Kharkov is reported re-ported in a dispatch to 'the Daily Mall filed, at Petrograd on Friday although Kharkovitself is said to be calm. The latest returns from the elections elec-tions to the constituent aassembly, as supplied by the Bolsheviki, show that of 237 delegates S5 arc Bolsheviki, 115 Social-Revolutionists, 10 Constitutional Constitution-al Democrats and the others scattering. scatter-ing. About SO delegates are now in Petrograd. Pe-trograd. but no further attempt has been made to hold a meeting. The Ukranlan delegates are. expected to arrive in Petrograd today. Referring to the numerical preponderance prepon-derance of Social -Revolutionists among the delegates, tho Petrograd correspondent of the Daily News says the whole crux of the matter is what proportion of the delegates belong to the right and what to the left, the latter lat-ter being mere tools in the hands of the Bolsheviki. The real meaning of" the figures cannot be ascertained at present because the, names of those elected are not available. oo |