TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, NOVE3IBER 23, 1917.
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CAUCASUS
BREAKS
AWAY FROM RUSSIA
Province Declares Separation
and Forms Parliament .
1 of Its Own.
SOCIALISTS ARE DOMINANT
Ambassador to XTnlted States . De
clares He Does Not Recognize
Authority of Extremists
Now in Petrograd.
Bourlon village to the north of the
wood, Berlin's official statement indi
cates, but were driven back by a strong
German counter-thrust. The British
have pushed considerably to the north
west of Moeuvres, however, and are
hammering: at Inchy, which the Ger
mans are battling determinedly to retain.
The Italians have now completed a
successful two weeks' defense of the
Plave line and the northern front pro
tecting its flank. Although they have
had to yield ground during this time on
the front between the Upper Plave and
the Asiago plateau, their defensive line
remains unbroken. The Italians' fourth
army, under General Robilant, was on
the aggressive between the Piave and
the Brenta on Friday while the first
army beat off heavy attacks between
the Asiago plateau and the Brenta, and
the third army foiled further efforts
by the Austro-German forces to bridge
the Piave with pontoons.
ARMISTICE OFFER
SURE TO BE MADE
I.OXDOX, Nov. 2-1. A Petrograd dls
patch from the semi-official nr it
atgency Hays that the Mayor of Petro-
Krad had announced that the Germans
have declined to receive the parliamen
tary representatives sent by order of
the Maximalist commissaries, declar
ing; that peace negotiations vronld only
he conducted with the constitutional
government of Russia.
One of the preliminary conditions for
entering upon pour parlers Imposed by
the Germans Is the withdrawn! of Rus
sinn troops for a distance of lOO kilo
meters (tt2 miles) while the Germans
retain their present positions.
PETROGRAD, Nov. 24. The Caucasus
has declared its separation from Rus
sia and formed a Parliament of 40
Deputies, members of the Socialist
parties, including one Bolshevikl, ac
cording fo reports brought by M.
Tseretelli, former Minister in the Ker
ensky Cabinet, on his return to Petro
grad. The text of certain confidential com
munications between the Russian For
eign Office and foreign governments
were published by Bolsheviki and So
cialist reactionist newspapers at the
instigation of Leon Trotzky, the Bol
sheviki Foreign Minister.
Trotzky says the documents are
those of the "czaristic, bourgeois and
coalition governments," and from them,
"the Russian nation and all nations in
the world must learn the truth of the
plans secretly made by financiers and
traders through their parliamentary
and diplomatic agents."
German and Austrian politicians,
Trotzky declares, may try to make
capital out of these documents, but he
warns them that when the German pro
letariat by means of a revolution se
cures access to their chancellories they
will find there documents which will
show up in no better light than those
now published.
The documents published by the Bol
Bheviki Include secret treaties and tele
grams sent by. the Russian Foreign
Office, Ambassadors abroad and Am
bassadors in Petrograd, the correspond
ent in Petrograd of the Exchange Tele
graph Company reports. In all 17 doc
uments were published. .
Allies Demands Set Forth.
The first state document published
deals with the desire of Russia to ac
quire the Dardanelles, Constantinople,
the west shore of the Bosphorus and
certain defined areas in Asia Minor. It
sets forth the demand of France and
Kngland that Russia agree to the free
dom of Constantinople for cargoes not
from or to Russian ports, the retention
of the hold of the Mussulman on places
in Arabia under a separate Mussulman
government and the inclusion of cer
tain portions of Persia in the sphere
of British influence.
This document indicates that Russia
agreed, on the whole, but proposed an
amendment demanding a clearer defini
tion in regard to the government of
Mussulman territory and the freedom
of pilgrimage. It defines the Russian
sphere of influence and indicates her
concern about the northern boundary
of Afghanistan and also sets forth
Italy's agreement, provided her claims
In the East are recognized.
The second document is a telegram
from M. Izvolsky, Russian Ambassador
to France, dated March 11, 1917, and
stating that France recognize3 Russia's
freedom to define her western boun
daries.
Boundaries Are Considered.
This was followed by a telegram
from Sergius Sazonoff, former Minister
of Foreign Affairs, assuring M. Izvol
sky that the agreement with France
and England in regard to the Con
stantinople Straits need not be re-ex
amined and stating the willingness of
Russia to give France and England the
freedom of defining the western boun
claries of Germany, in exchange for the
freedom of allowing Russia to define
the eastern boundary of Germany, but
insisting on the exclusion of the Polish
ciuestion as a matter of international
discussion, and instructing M. Izvol
sky to counteract any attempt to place
the future of Poland under control of
the powers.
M. Sazonoff's telegram, continuing,
Bays Russia must prevent Sweden from
becoming unfriendly and by all means
must earn the friendship of Norway
and that all political efforts to influ
ence Roumania already had been made.
The telegram touches on the exclusion
of Germany from the Chinese markets
but says this must be subject to an
economical conference at which Japan
snouid be represented.
AMSTERDAM, Nov. 24. Answering
an interpellation in the Austrian House
of Deputies, Premier von Seydler, a
Vienna, aeciareu, up to this time, no
Russian peace offer had been received
He added that an offer would be ex
amined in a benevolent spirit and that
accommodating terms would be ac
cepted.
STOCKHOLM. Nov. 24. All goods for
Russia have been stopped at Hapa
randa, Sweden, opposite Tornea, Fin
land, and are being returned to Nar
vik, according to a dispatch to Dag
Diadt today irom Haparanda.
In Palestine the British are closing In
on Jerusalem, their official statements
claiming added interest because of
their increasingly frequent mention of
Biblical names. The site of the ancient
Mizpah, sortie eight miles west of Jeru
salem, was carried by storm. North
west of the city the British were stfll
closer, but their mounted troops near
Beltonia in this sector were forced
back a short distance by a strong Turk
ish counter attack.
-American destroyers in the war zone
were successful recently In sinking a
German submarine, seemingly beyond
all question, according to both official
and' unofficial accounts. The U-boat
fell victim to a depth bomb rising to
the surface after the shock and sinking
just after the destroyer had attached
a line and was attempting to tow her.
ITALIAN MORALE BETTER
SIGXOR MARCONI DECLARES GE.V-
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"Won Advantage by Lies.
ROME. Friday, Nov. 23. "The re
organization of the entire Italian
army is proceeding apace," said Signor
William Marconi. Inventor of the wire-
ess, in an interview today with the
Associated Press. "It makes us confl-
ent that the onward march of the
nemy will be definitely stopped."
Signor Marconi has just returned
from a tour of the front, from the
outh of the Piave to Monte (irappa.
uring which he inspected, the wire
less apparatus.
I saw the Duke of Aosta, commander
of the third army; General Diaz, com
mander-in-chief; General Badagllo,
second in command, and other leading
commanders," he continued.
All were filled with hope that the
worst is over; that the revival of the
morale of the soldiers, which Is con
stantly more noticeable, may give un-
xpected results. I found everywhere
hat the spirit of the troops was very
high. The men are desirous of taking
revenge for the reverses suffered and
are furious at the thought that any
Italians had been cheated into believ
ing Austrian and German lies when the
nemy announced the intention to lay
down arms If the Italians did th- same.
The navy, co-operating with the
army along the coast and in the lower
section of the Plave, Is gaining splen
did headway."
Progress of the War.
Mediators Start to Oregon.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 24. The Pres
ident's mediation, commission left here
tonight for Oregon-' and Washington,
where an investigation will be made
into labor questions affecting the lum
ber industry.
Cattleman Killed in Railroad Wreck.
GRANGER. Wyo., Nov. 24. H. L.
McCaw, a cattleman of Filer, Idaho,
was killed and nine .others were In
jured today when a switch engine
crashed into a mixed train on the Ore
gon Short Line Railroad near here.
Any Effort, Says Arno Dosch-Fleu-rot,
That Aims to Pusli Russia
Further Into War Certain to
End Disastrously.
(Copyrleht. 1917. by the Pre Publlnhlnit
Co. The New York World. Published by
arrangement.)
BY ARNO DOSCH-FLEUROT.
PETROGRAD, Nov. 22. (Delayed In
transmission.) The only effect of the
resignation as commander-in-chief of
Dukhonin has been to cause a slight
delay in the formal offer of an armis
tice to Germany, but the government
is determined to make this step at all
costs.
The appointment of Ensign Krylenko
as commander-in-chief to take Dukhon-
In's place, was done to insure a leader
of the army who would carry out the
orders of the military revolutionary
committee.
Krylenko formerly was a member of
the First Machine Gun Regiment. He
took a prominent part in the revolu
tion of July and was thrown into pris
on by the Kerensky government-.
There is great interest here in the
probable effect of the offer of an arm
istice on the German commanders.
Dukhonin was a known quantity to
them.
Peace and Land Is Motto.
From the Russian standpoint it
makes little difference who puts for
ward the formal demand for peace.
Krylenko is not expected to take
active, technical command of. the army.
His function is to negotiate a three
months' armistice. And it is signifi
cant in this connection that Socialists
now gathering at Moghilow, where
army headquarters is located, though
planning opposition to the government
movement, are compelled by state pub
lic opinion to adopt as their motto
"Peace and Land for the People."
"Peace and a partition of land among
the people" now are fundamentals that
no political party can escape. Any ef
fort, either within or without Russia,
that disregards these Issues and aims
to push Russia further Into the war
is certain to end disastrously.
New Army May Take Field.
If. however, the soldiers at the
front, having made every effort to
create a revolution in order to bring
about a peace with Germany, meet with
failure, due to the refusal of the central
powers to agree, a new volunteer Rus
sian army. Imbued with a new repub
lican spirit, will take the field in the
Spring.
This must be kept in mind through
all changes now in progress. The atti
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those most tired of the war, is evi
denced by a delegation from the front
that arrived at Smolny recently. They
said they represented tens of thousands
of soldiers who would leave the firing
line immediately and go to their homes
if peace was not concluded. Trotzky
said to them:
"You want peace. We are doing
everything possible to get it. You
want land. It Is yours now by decree,
but you cannpt cultivate it in the Win
ter and if you leave your positions now
the government will come and take the
land from you so that you will not
have it at all.
"You want clothing and food. If you
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MAYOR RICE MAKES ARREST
Jitney Driver Escapes, but Is Later
Captured by Police.
ROSEBURG. Or., Nov. 24. (Special.)
Mayor Rice made his first arrest last
evening since assuming the duties of
Mayor of this city, when he took a
local jitney driver Into custody. The
Mayor was on his way home when he
noticed a disturbance on the street, in
which a. supply of whisky and the jit
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La Follette Case to Be Taken Up.
WASHINGTON. Nov. 24. Arrange
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