UKRAINE AGREES TO BOLSHEVIK DEMANDS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 86, 4 January 1918, Page 5

UKRAINE AGREES TO BOLSHEVIK DEMANDS

PROVIDE!) THE REPUBLIC 16 OFFICIALLY RECOGNISED. (Rec. January <1, 1.35 a.m.) Petrograd, January 2. The Bolshevik news agency announces that the Ukraine Itada is willing to agree to the Bolshevik demands not to tako or facilitate military measures against the Bolsheviki, conditionally on money being sent to 'the Ukra'jic and the Ukraine Republic being officially recognised.—Renter. TWENTY THOUSAND OFFICERS JOIN GENERAL KALEDIN BOLSHEVIK GARRISONS DISARMED BY COSSACKS. Petrograd, January 2. Twenty thousand officers have joined General Kaledin, finding life in the reorganised army insupportable. General Kaledin has organised a special corps of officers. The Cossitcks sinpriscd and disarmed the Bolshevik garrisons at Alexandrovsk, Arensburg, and Kazatin. Violent fighting continues in Irkutsk. Whole districts of the town wero destroyed, and many civilians aie dying of cold.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. TROTSKY MAKES A DIFFICULT APPOINTMENT. London, January 2. Trotsky has appointed Citizen Litvinoff to be provisional Plenipotentiary in London, and has ordered the Embassy, the Military Mission, and other Russian officials in Britain to hand oyer their documents. Citizen Karpinsky has received a similar appointment.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-Reutcr. POLITICAL INDEPENDENCE OF THE FINNISH REPUBLIC (Rec. January 3, 7.50 p.m.) Patrograd, January 2. The Bolshevik news agency states that the People's Commissioners have informed the Finnish Government of their willingness to recognise tlio political independence of the Finnish Republic.—Renter.