Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1918 — WANTS RUSS TO QUIT [ARTICLE]

WANTS RUSS TO QUIT

Lenine Urges Bolshevikl to Abandon Regime. Frotzky Defeats Plan by Small Vote In Workers’ Council —Allied Intervention Asked. Stockholm, Dec. 10.—The bolshevik eaders in Russia are engaged in leated discussions whether to abanl&n their entire regime, according to the Swedish naval attache at Petrograd, who has arrived here. Nikolai Lenine, the premier, and Leo Kameleff are said to favor abandonment, jut they are opposed by War Mlnls:er Trotzky, Foreign Minister Tchiicherln and M. Radek, who urge holding out to the last. The matter was brought before the central council of tvorkmen’s and soldiers’ delegates and Lenine was defeated by the slight majority of 12 out of 200 votes. Constantinople, Dec. 10.—Paul Milukoff, foreign minister in the first Russian cabinet after the revolution, has arrived here with other constitutional democrat leaders and social democrats from Odessa to request permission of the allied command to proceed to Paris tor the purpose of urging that an allied army be sent into Russia by way of the Black sea. “The only possible cure for.the present trouble in Russia is that an allied force be landed Immediately in the south,’’ he said. “The disorganized old Russian army could rally around this force.

“The United States probably Is In position to give the greatest help. It will cost the allies less now than later, because the bolshevikl dally are growing In strength, owing to the indecision of their opponents. “The entry of allied forces would save hundreds of thousands of Ilves tills winter, because the people will starve unless the civil war Is ended and the transportation of food to central Russia is resumed.” M. Mllukoff and other members of his party painted a dark picture of the disorders in south Russia, which the bolshevikl are unable to. control. Cracow, Dec/16. —Tens of thousands of soldiers are moving back and forth across the old Russian frontier. They come from many nations. All are returning to their homes and some of them are pillaging as they go.