THE NEW REGIME IN RUSSIA

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 48, 20 November 1917, Page 5

THE NEW REGIME IN RUSSIA

TERMS OF THE FACTION PEACE RIGHTS OF FREE STATES WITHIN RUSSIA ASSERTED London, November 18. Hostilities ceased in Moscow on Saturday, and terms wero signed whereby the White Guards surrendered arms and the Committee of Public Safety was dissolved. The Maximalists' conditions for entering a composite Socialist Government included the control of troops in Petrograd and Moscow, and tho arming of workmen throughout Eussia. On Saturday, after tho defeat of Keronsky, the Maximalist Council Commissioners proclaimed tho right of the different peoples in Russia to decide their own form of-government, including the separation end formation of independent States. The Maximalists insist on tho inclusion of Trotsky and Lonin in any composite Socialist Government, and on having a majority of the portfolios, including thoso of Foreign, Interior, and Labour. The Maximalist Commissioners havo closed the Russian-Swedish frontier at Tornoa.—Reuter. REPORTED LENIN-KERENSKY COMPROMISE. Copenhagen, November 18. The "Berliner Tageblatt's" Vionna correspondent states that Lenin end Kerensky have effected a compromise, which is essentially favourable to Lenin. The Russian troops in Finland favour the Finnish revolution—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. MANDATE BY NEW COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF. London, November 18. A Russian official notification, signed by General Dukhonin and issued at Petrograd, states that he hns temporarily assumed the post of Commander-in-Chief. The mandato orders the stoppage of further movements of troop 3to Petrograd, and states that onlv transport connected with tho military operations will be permitted.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Ass n.-Reuter. AS SEEN BY AN EYE-WITNESS NOTHING SANGUINARY ABOUT THE REGENT FIGHTING, Copenhagen, November 18. Herr Edstroen, president of the Swedish Electric Company, has returned from Petrograd. Pis states that bo saw nothing bloody in the fighting that was chronicled in the foreign newspapers. The military schools were certainly damaged, but he heard nothing of tho reported cruelties to women. A Bolshevik battalion maintained excellent order—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. i THE FIGHTING IN MOSCOW (Rec. November 19, 8.45 p.m.) London, November 18. The "Daily Chronicle's" correspondent at Potrograd reports that the fighting at Moscow, began on November 10, and lasted a week. A Committee of Public Safety, consisting of the City Council and other organisations, controlled a force of three thousand pupils and officers of the training schools, and hastily organised' a body of students with maxims, and three field guns. Most of the garrison troops, numbering one hundred thousand, Temai ned in barracks, and did not participate in the fighting. Some departed from the city, and about fifteen thousand supported tho Bolshevik Red Guards, composed mainly of youths. The Bolshevik forces, with fifteen field guns, kept up a continuous on tho centre of the city, killing peaceful citizens in tlieir homes. They then seized the Kremlin, but were expelled by the troops controlled by the Committee of Public Snfcty. Tho Bolshevik forces recaptured the Kremlin, and wore again expelled. The killed and wounded by Wednesday had totalled three thousand, mostly civilians. _ Tho corpses lay for days in doorways and stairs, and the population were afraid to leave their homes, and unable to get provisions. The bombardment destroyed the Cathedral of the Assumption, and set firo to the Church of St. Basil. This destruction, which even Napoleon avoided, is a national shame. It has horrified both sides in the present struggle, and resulted in negotiations for peace. It is now reported that twenty thousand Cossacks are advancing on Moscow. In a later dispatch tho "Daily Chronicle's" Petrograd correspondent reports that on Sunday tigbt a largo "force wns approaching Petrograd, its purpose being unknown. Another large force was approaching Moscow.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. LOSS OF LIFE BETWEEN EIGHT AND TEN THOUSAND.' (Rec. Novomber 20, 0.50 a.m.) Petrograd, November 19, The loss of life in Moscow during the fighting was between eigbt and ten thousand. The revolutionaries Were vie torious.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. COSSACKS HOLD THE TRUMP CARD —, _ - CONTROL OF THE RAILWAYS THROUGH THE COAL-FIELDS. (Rec. November 20, 0.50 a.m.) Stockholm, November 18. The Cossacks' great advantage is the occupation of the Donetz coal-field, ■ which places tho whole of tho Russian railways at their mercy. General Kaledin can starve or freeze Petrograd out. He has already stopped two hundred wagons of food, and announces his intention of stopping the whole of tho transport of food to Petrograd. Many of tho well-to-do people are migrating to ArcbiMgel."Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ' KERENSKY IS DONE FOR (Rec. November 19, 10.W p.m.) London, November 19. It is evident that Keronsky is done for. It is generally believed that a military dictator will arise, in tho person perhaps of Alexieff or Kaledin. Young officers who formed the chief force during tho resistance to the Bolshevik troops in Petrograd were massacred by tho thousand. In one case the Bokhevik men captured an armoured car, manned by Cadets. The Bolshevik soldiers thrust their bayonets through the loopholes, pinned tho unfortunates inside, then hauled the Cadets out and trampled them to death under the feet of the mob.-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. KALEIDOSCOPIC CHANGES IN FINLAND WHOLE INDUSTRIAL LIFE OF THE COUNTRY PARALYSED. Petrograd, November 18. There have been kaleidoscopic changes in Finland. Kerensky's partisans dissolved the Diet, which was about to proclaim a Finnish Republic. Tho revolutionaries re-established the Diet, and appointed a Premier, and then on November U the soldiers and strikers occupied the Diet and Senate Buildings, dissolved the Legislatures, and established a Bolshevik Cabinet. The striko is universal, and industries, communications, and agriculture are at a. standstill. — "The Times." „,„,,,„,«,, » (Rco. November 19, 10.45 p.m.) Stockholm, November 18. The Socialist coup in Finland makes the news from Russia fragmentary, but it discloses appalling chaos. Theie are three Russias—the north half dominated by Lenin; the middle, including Moscow, where the Maximalists are fighting the followers of Kerensky and Korniloff; and the south, including the Kieff and Ukraine, where Kaledin and the Cossacks are supreme.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.R outer.