RUSSIA.
PEACE NEGOTIATIONS. A ■ POSTPONEMENT DESIRED BY GIiRMANY. NEGOTIATIONS WILL PROBABLY I AIL. Received Dec. 27, 8.50 p.m. Petrograd, Dec. 20. Trotsky has ordered the immediate arrest of the persons who invited Chinese troops to enter Harbin. The Germans have asked the Leninites to postpone the peace negotiations until January 24. It is generally expected that the Germans at Brest Litovsk will absolutely refuse to discuss a general peace, and that negotiations will thus quickly break off. The Austro-German? 'iav# concentrated huge forces on the south-western front. The German commanders have confiscated entire issues of the newspaper Torch, which the Commissaries are distributing among the German troops. The commanders decline to allow Buch an agitation among their armies. A NEW CALENDAR. DEGRADED OFFICERS AS WORKERS. BRAINS AT A DISCOUNT. I. j Received Dec. 27, 6.5 p.m. j London, Dec. 20. Dr. Williams, telegraphing from Petrograd on (December 21, states that the People's Commissaries are forming a new [calendar, abolishing Christmas and I Easter and «uc Gregorian calendar. The new system will be introduced ou January 8. Thousands of former officers, who have been degraded from the army, have formed a working union for unloading trucks at railway stations. They are earning 20 roubles daily. The Government evicted the civil servants who were striking against Leninism from official quarters, and is arresting the leaders. The suppression of newspapers has put out of work the majority of journalists. An army oi municipal employees is out of work, and professors, lawyers, and notaries arc idle, the whole thought-1 producing system of Russia being in ! abeyance. SIBERIAN RAILWAY CUT. IN NEIGHBORHOOD OF IRKHUTSK. Received December' 27, 6.5 p.m. Reuter Service. Pekin, Dec. 20. The Trans-Siberian railway lias been severed neftr Trkhutsk where the Bolsheviks destroyed locomotive sheds, round houses and workshops. ANOTHER GOVERNMENT SET . UP. IN SOUTHERN RUSSIi ' Received Dec. 28, 1.50 ajn. Vancouver, Dec. 27. The Russian Consul at Seattle haa been advised by cable, via India, that there is an established Russian Government at Voronage, on the Sea of Azov. It is believed the leaden weue members of Kerensky's Provisional Government who fled from Petrograd. WORK OF GERMAN COMMISSION. EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS. RESTORATION OF RELATIONS. Reuter Service. deceived Dec. 28, 1.40 a.m. Amsterdam, Dec. 27. The German commission provided by the armistice is proceeding to Petrograd to arrange an exchange of civilian and unfit war prisoners and the restoration of Russo-Gennan relations within denned limits.
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