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Show LONDON, Dec. 1 1 . The Cossacks are preparing to fight, the Petrograd correspondent of the Daily Mail reports. 1 Three trainloads of Cossacks are said to be at Bielgorod and three at Sumy, commanded by General Kornilof f . Extremist red guards to the number of about 1 ,000 are expected at Kharkov from Moscow. The correspondent says General Kaledines, the Cossack leader, is disbanding infantry regiments in the Don territory and sending them home on account of their extremist opinions. PETROGRAD, Sunday, Dec. 9. A "battalion of H death" which left Staffka is reported to have defeated the I Bolsheviki troops near the town of Shlobin in Mohilev. T GRAVE SITUATION IN MOSCOW LONDON, Dec. 11. The situation in Moscow is reported to be grave, ac-1 ac-1 cording to a Times' dispatch from Petrograd. Pe-trograd. The Bolsheviki, according to Petrograd newspapers, have placed machine guns in the streets as they fear an uprising of hostile partis. The garrison, however, shows signs of insubordination in-subordination and is reported to be disobeying the Bolsheviki commander, a private soldier named Muranoff. Considerable Con-siderable forces, the dispatch adds, are being detached from the west front to be sent against the Cossacks. Swedes Leaving Moscow Street fighting has occurred in Moscow, Mos-cow, and tne Swedish consul there has advised all Swedes lo leave the city, according to advices received in Hap-aranda Hap-aranda and forwarded by tho Stockholm Stock-holm correspondent of the Morning Post. It is stated that starvation seems to threaten Moscow. Most of the Swedes there are said to have taken the consul's advice. GENERALS DISARMING REVOLUTIONISTS REVOLU-TIONISTS COPENHAGEN, Monday, Dec. 10. As the Bolsheviki government has proofs that Generals Kaledines and Dutoff have been arresting Workmen's and Soldiers' councils and trying to disarm revolutionary garrisons, according ac-cording to a dispatch received here from tho official Petrograd telegram bureau, the government has decided to make an end to the counter revolutionary revolution-ary movement. It has ordered enough troops to suppress sup-press the movement to be transferred from the Caucasus. It is explained that the troops in the Caucasus were chosen so as not to diminish forces on tho eastern front. GERMANS MAKE AGREEMENT PETROGRAD. Monday, Dec. 10. M. Kamoneff, chief of the Bolsheviki del- egates sent to negotiate an armistice with the Germans, said on his return from Brest -Litovsk that tho official sessions of the dolegates wore followed follow-ed by a semi -official exchange of views, at which the Germans finally agreed not to transfer troops to other fronts. M. Kameneff admitted, however, how-ever, that this was not binding upon the Russians. He requested that ho be allowed to send Bolsheviki literature to" Germany and through that country to other belligerents. The Germans replied re-plied they supposed their government would allow the sending of such literature litera-ture to England. Franco and Italy, but I not to Germany. 00 |