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Show eiPEiPMiT GROWS IN RUSSIA; Every Effort Made to Misrepresent Mis-represent Attitude of Entente En-tente Powers Being Made. NOTICE SENT LENINE General Kaledines Reported in Control of Most of Southeastern South-eastern Russia. WASHINGTON, Nov. 28. German propaganda in Russia is increasing In intonsity, according to Information received re-ceived at the embassy here from the Russian ambassadors at Paris and Rome. Every effort, they reported, Is being made to misrepresent the attitude of the entente powers and that of tho United States and misleading announcements an-nouncements of policy are being spread in Russia and in other countries. coun-tries. Im some circles it is believed that the representatives of the allied powers now in Paris already may have served notice on the Trotzky-Lenine faction that any intercourse with Germany Ger-many would be looked upon as severing sever-ing relations. It was not apparent here, if any such message had been sent. o News Is Contradicted. LONDON, Nov. 28 Little excitement excite-ment has attended the elections to the constituent assembly in Petrograd, says the Petrograd correspondent of the Daily Mail in a dispatch dated Tuesday. Ho thinks less than 50 per cent of those entitled to voto cast thoir ballots, but that perhaps another 10 per cent would vote before the polls closed Tuesday afternoon. News from the army front, the cor respondent says, Is contradictory, but apparently tho vast majority of the soldiers supported the Lenine government. govern-ment. Ensign Krylenko, the commander-in-chief, has gono to Pskoff, where he has dismissed General Tschermoff and given his command to a commissioner for the northern front. The general army committee has advised ad-vised Krylenko not to go to Mohllev, general headquarters, as It cannot hand over the command to an irresponsible irre-sponsible person, but will itself continue con-tinue In authority until the question, of government is settled. Chaos, the correspondent added, is spreading and tho extremists undoubtedly un-doubtedly are gaing ground. Cadets Join Kaledines. LONDON, Nov. 28. The militant cadets and virtually all of the oflfcers of the Bolsheviki troops in the Moscow Mos-cow district, according to the Petro- grad correspondent of the Morning Post, have gone to join General Kaledines, Kale-dines, leader of the Cossacks, who is reported In control of most of southeastern south-eastern Russia. Many hundreds of officers from regiments regi-ments stationed in' tho rear and numbers num-bers from the front and virtually all the oincers or the guard regiments, it; Is added, also buvo gone over to Gen-j oral Kaledines. Ludendorff on West Front. AMSTERDAM, Nov. 28. An official ! statement from Berlin denies the rumor that General von Ludendorff, first quartermaster general of tho German Ger-man army, had gone to the Russian front. It says that General von Luden-dorf Luden-dorf 1b at the western front. A London dispatch on Novembor 23 said that General von Ludendorff had Btarted for the eastern front in con- I noct,lon with tho Russian offer of a (J truce. B Voting Is Concluded. 6 PETROGRAD, Tuesday, Nov. 27. I Voting for delegates to the Russian 6 constituent assembly has been con- I clinded in Petrograd, but tho results are not expected to bo known before fl Sunday. Taurido palaco, which Is bolng prepared for the assembly, has accommodations for 800 delegates. A delegation of Jews appeared at the British embassy today to oxpross its gratitudo for the action of tho entente allies with roforonco to Palestine. |