BOLSHEVIKI TOTTERING AMID THE RUINS
WORKING CLASSES EXHIBIT REVULSION OF FEELING DISCIPLINE OF AUSTRIAN ARMY COLLAPSING (ltec. January 27, 5.5 p.m.) Tho "Daily Chronicle's" Petrograd correspondent says: are tottering amid the ruiu they helped to create. Blind, senseless anarch v threatens to overwhelm all parties, Anarchical insubordination is prevalent among the armed masses, particularly tho sailors and Bed Guards, but the working classes are exhibiting a strong revulsion of feeling against the Bolsheviki, and are_ holding i) meetings in the factories and passing resolutions of no-confidence in the Bolsheviki, deciding to recall their representatives in the Soviet, and demanding the disbanding of the lied Guard. Serious 'disturbances havo taken place in Moscow, where two revolver shots were fired at an armed Bolshevik procession and caused a panic, the Bolsheviki wildly, killing and .wounding many women and children. Returning officers fiom the south-west front state that the Austrian Army is demoralised and in a state of complete collapse of discipline, like the Russian Armv •\.us N.Z. Cablo Assn. ' THREAT TO EXTERMINATE ALL ENEMIES. (Rec. January 27, 5.5 p.m.) r> iv i i jj ■' x, t.. , « , Petrograd, January 25. General Krylenko, addressing the Rod Guards, said: "All liberties must be set aside during the struggle with the bourgeoisie. Wo shall shrink at nothing, not even the spreading of wholesale terror, and woe to all attempting to cross our path. We will not stop until we have completelv exterminated all our enemies."—Reuter. MANY CASUALTIES IN MOSCO W DISTURBANCES, t (Rec. January 27, 5.5 p.m.) Petrograd, January 26. Forty people were killed and two hundred wounded in the Moscow dis-turbances.—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn. SOVIET DEPUTIES' CONGRESS OPENED. (Rec. January 27, 5.5 p.m.) . Petrograd, January 25. Hie Soviet Deputies Congress opened with dramatic enthusiasm and every sign of popular approval and confidence. M. Trotsky expressed his unfailing belief in the coming assistance from the Western ' proletariat.—"The Times." « REGIMENTS OF GUARDS SUPPORT THE. CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY. Copenhagen, January 25. Messages from Haparanda state that three Guards regiments have joined the side of tho Constituent Assembly and opened hostilities against the Bolsheviki. The Red Guards surrounded the Social Revolutionaries' headquarters and arrested fifty members of a militnrv organisation formed for the defence of tho Constituent Assembly.—Aus.-N.Z.' Cable Assn. BOLSHEVIK GOVERNMENT WILL REFUSE GERMAN CONDITIONS AUSTRO-GERMAN SOLDIERS GETTING OUT OF HAND. (Rec. January 27, 5,5 p.m.) London, January 26. Tho 'Daily Mail's" Petrograd correspondent says: "The Bolshevik government will refuse the German peace conditions, placing the responsibility on the Soviets' Congress. News from the Austrian front reveals an increasing lack of discipline and widespread fraternising. The officers were Med, the soldiers demanding peace. It is reported that the discontent is spreading on the German fronts."—United Service. NEGOTIATIONS BROKEN OFF, WITHOUT RESULTS (Rec. -January 27, 5.5 p.m.) Roma, January '2G. The "Secolo's" Petrograd correspondent, telegraphs ■. "Lenin has informed lis friends that the Brest Litovsk negotiations have been virtually broken of, ivithout results."—United Service. POSTPONEMENT OF THE CONFERENCE. Petrograd, January 25. The Brest Litovsk negotiations havo been postponed, and will be resumed in January "2!).—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn. UTSTRIAN READINESS TO CONCLUDE SEPARATE PEACE REPORTED. (Rec. January 27, 11.55 p.m.) . Petrograd, January 27. It is reported that Austria has declared her readiness to conclude peace rithout Germany, and accept a democratic programme, except the self-" 'etermination of nations.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
GERMANY'S PEACE TERMS BRUTALLY EXPRESSED EFFORT TO BUY BBEADPTUFFS WITH RUSSIAN TERRITORY Pclrcgrad, January 25. Herr Elnfl'man brutaily expressed Germany's terms of peace at Brest Litovsk. Me stated that Germany's future Eastern frontier would ho from Riga through Yalk, Dvinsk, and Brest Litovsk. A Russian deleiinte asked what would happen if Russia. refused. Herr Hoffman replied: "Roval will ho occupied within a week." Hoffman added that the southern boundaries liad been arranged between Germany and the Ukraine. It appears that Germany has promised the Ukraine. liberal boundaries at the oxnenso of Russia, but tho peace is conditional on the Ukraine supplying breadstuifs to Germany.— Aus.-N.45. Cable Assn. AN EMBARRASSING COMPLICATION ARRIVAL OF A SECOND UKRAINIAN DELEGATION. Amsterdam, January 25. A Berlin telegram states that an embarrassing complication has arisen at Brest Litovsk. A second Ukrainian delegation has arrived, and denies that tile previous', delegation was entitled to negotiate on behalf of the Ukraine 'Republic, of which tlife real Government js established at Charkoff, and professes Maximalist principles. The second delegation is from Charkoff, and supports Trotsky.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. CONGRESS OF COSSACKS INAUGURATED RESOLVES TO DECLARE WAK AGAINST KALEDIN (liec. January 27. 5.5 p.m.) London, January y>. A wireless message states: "A Russian Congress of Cossacks from tho front was inaugurated at Kamensky on January 23. Twenty-three regiments and five batteries wore represented, also all tho participants at the Voroncz conference, and tho whole of labouring Cossackdom. General Kaledin ordered tho dispersal of the congress, 1 and the arrest of tho organisers. The congress unanimously passed a resolution to declare war against Kaledin, relegating to itself all authority on tho Don, and sent, detachments for the purpose, of capturing Likhaia and Zvevero, and arrested eighteen superior officers. The Cossaoks are fired with enthusiasm, and they are striving to end Kaledin, with the assistance of an army of tho Workmen's and Peasants' Government, with tho object, of destroying the bourgeoisie of Russia on tho Don, leading to victory and ,a great revolution."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable AssnReuter. BOLSHEVIKI CONTEMPLATING WAR AGAINST THE UKRAINIANS. (Rec. January 27, 11.55 p.m.) Petrsgrad, January 27. The Bolsheviki are contemplating a formal declaration of war against the Ukrainians. It is reported that the Bolshevik troops have surrounded Kieff. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. GREAT MASSACRE THREATENED MUCH BLOODSHED IN FINLAND. (Rec. January 27, 5.5 p.m.) Stockholm, January 25. Many trains full of soldiers from Finland aro going to Petrograd. Tho Bolsheviki aro concentrating troops and expecting disturbances as a result of the recent brutal murders. The head of tho Bolshevik Chancellor's office told the AVorkmen and Soldiers' Council that a great massacre was impending, in which the working classes would definitely and forevor crush the bourgeoisie. There has been considerable fighting in Finland between tho Red Guards and tho Finnish "White Guards. There has bfcen bloodshed at Viborg, Ivuchava, and Oosterbotton. Bed Guard excesses continue at Helsingfors and other towns. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. BRITISHERS IN FINLAND ILL-TREATED AND ROBBED ULTIMATUM SENT TO RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT. (Rec. January 27, 5.5 p.m.) Helsingfors, January 26. Ihe British Consul has protested to the' Senate against acts of violence and robberies of Britishers in Finland. The Senate sent an ultimatum to tho Russian Government to cease supplying arms to Finnish hooligans, who were committing excesses, assisted by the Russian soldiery, otherwise a state of war would be proclaimed immediately.—Reuter. POLISH REGIMENTS DISOBEY DEMOCRATISATION O'iDEIC. . , . Petrograc!, January 25. Polish regiments are disobeying a democratisation order for the election of commanders. General Krylenko, the Bolshevik Commander-in-Chief, has arrested the executive of the Polish Military Committeo at Minsk. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. FURTHER ARIIISSPS IN CONNECTION WITH IMI I.'ivl'GßAD MURDERS. Petrograd, January 25. A soldier named Buskoff and two sailors, Rasine and Koulikovsky, have been arrested in connection with the murders of the ex-Ministers Sh'ingareff and Kokoshkin.—Aus.-N.Z. Cablg Assu.
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