COUNTER-REVOLUTION IN RUSSIA

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 40, 10 November 1917, Page 7

COUNTER-REVOLUTION IN RUSSIA

' FALL OF KERENSKY EXTREMISTS SEIZE POWER AND DECLARE FOR EARLY PEACE / By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright Vancouver, November S, M. Kerensky (Premier of Russia) has been deposed—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. New York, November 8. Bolshevik control has been established in Petrograd. The party announces that a separate peaco is imminent.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. AN OFFICIAL PROCLAMATION > London, November 8. A Russian official report states: "A proclamation has been issued by the Army Committee and the Soviet (Council) of Soldiers' Deputies, announcing that the garrison and proletariat of Petrograd have deposed Kerensky's Government, which rose 3gainst the people's government. The deposition was accom- ■ plished without bloodshed. Tho Petrograd Soviet and Workmen's and Soldiers' Deputies welcomes the change and proclaims the authority of the Military Revolutionary Committee uptil tho creation of a Government of Soviets. Soldiers are ordered by the. proclamation to watch the conduct of officers,; and those who do not immediately'and openly join tho accomplished revolution must be arrested as enemies. The rational revolutionary army must not permit uncertain military detachments to go to Petrograd from the front, and must, oppose such motions without mercy. Tho proclamation concludes: "The soldiers are for peace, bread, land, the people, and the power of the people."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. FLIGHT OF KERENSKY. New York, November 8. M. Kerensky has fied. The United Press Agency in London learns authoritatively that tho Maximalists controlled only Petrograd on Wednesday evening.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Ass.i. LENIN AT THE HEAD OF THE MOVEMENT London, November 8. Telegrams from the. official Petrograd telegraph agency, which is now in tho hands of the Maximalists, state that tho Maximalists hold the city, and have arrested tho Ministers. Lenin, who is the leader of tho movement, has demanded an immediate armistice and peace. Reuter's own correspondent has been s;!rnt einco lie reported that the Maximalists had seized the agency.—Eeuter. MEETING OF THE SOVIET PLATFORM OF THE NEW REGIME.' London, November 8. A Russian official report states: "The Reunion of Soviets opened to-day. Tho Armv Committees were ordered to elect a delegate for every 25,000 men. Failure, to send delegates is declared a. sin- against tho Revolution."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assu.-Reuter. The Military Revolutionary Committee's programme is:— To offer an immediate democratic peace. 2. The immediate handing, over of large proprietorial lands to the peasants. • 3, The transmission of all authorities. i. An honest convocation of a Constitutional Assembly. ■ ■ —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-Reuter.' AN EARLY RIFT IN THE LUTE. Petrograd, November 8. . An extraordinary meeting of Soldiers' and Peasants' _ Delegates, under M. Trotzky, as president, after declaring that t tho Provisional Government no longer existed, outlined the problems before the Russian Democracy. These were The immediate conclusion of the war, for which the new Government must proclaim an armistice to the belligerents. The handing over of the land to (he peasants; and the settlement of the economic crisis. The Assembly passed a .resolution in favour of the speediest -possible settlement of these problems. At the c.'ose of tho sitting a declaration was read f:om representatives of the Maximalists in the Soldiers' and Peasants' Council expressing disappointment at the coup d'etat, and announcing their intention to withdraw from participation in the Petrograd deliberations.—Renter. NEWS FROM PETROGRAD UNRELIABLE MAXIMALISTS COI?TRO]> THE WIRES. ' (Rec. November 9, ".DO p.m.) " London, November 8. As the telegraphs are in the hands of the Maximalists, news from Petrograd must bo taken, with reserve. News received'in London from an independent source indicates that M. Kerensky was aware of Lenin's intention, and arranged for tho transfer of the Government to Moscow. It is believed that M. Kerensky will endeavour to rally the modern to Cossacks and such troops as have not been corrupted by the extremists—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn. I A WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON COUP D'ETAT (Rec. November 9, 7.30 p.m.) Petrograd, November 8. The coup d'etat was accomplished at five o'clock on Wednesday afternoon. Three Cossack regiments that wero quartered in Potrograd refused to march against the Maximalists, but declared their intention of maintaining order. Iverenskj's whereabouts is -unknown. Tho hope is expressed that ho has reached Moscow, where the loyalists are certain to attempt to constitute a Government if the control of Petrograd should not be regained.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. THE WHEEL OF THE REVOLUTION (Rec. .November 9, 7.30 p.m.) Petrograd, November S. Tho Congress of Soldiers and the Peasants' Congress of All Russia, in a proclamation, delegates to the provincial branches tho power to relievo tho Government commissaries of all duties, oidoring the release of the arrested members of the agricultural committees and the arrest of tho commissaries who arrested tliem. Tho proclamation also abolishes tho death penalty, re-establishes the freedom of political propaganda, orders the release of soldiers arrested for alleged political crimes, and also the arrest of tho ex-Ministers, MM. Terestchenko, Konovaloff, Kischkin, Malautovitch, Nikitin, and others. The military are enjoined to arrest Kerensky, and all in complicity with Kerensky will be treated f.jwitxei jj-iiii treason.-Eeutec