INTERNAL RUSSIA.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 July 1917, Page 3

INTERNAL RUSSIA.

DISORDERS ENDED. PETROGRAD, July 19 Th© local Commander announces that the disorders may be regarded as definitely ended. All the military organisations. have givtn assurances of their readiness to support the Government’s effc%rs to rcastnblish order. —, I ORDER, BEING RESTORED LONDON, July 19. j A Petrograd wireless message states ( that tho city is practically in a state of siege. All the shops and houses are closed. General Polonfytoff's orders are 1)0 ing carried out. Tho Government's orders ar© to clear out those who are g attacking the people with arms. Gen- ? eral Polontzoff assembled cavalry, artil x levy and Cossacks at the Winter Palace r Sqiiare, whence they are operating through the city, restoring order. BRIDGE BLOWN UP. [ AMBASSADOR’S ESCAPE. COPENHAGEN, July 19. ( Tho great railway bridge over tho jVyatka River in Russia’ was blown up. t It is believed thnt it was a conspiracy against the life of tho American Am bassador whose special narrowly escaped the wreckage. i A CORRESPONDENT’S REPORT. f A SCENE OF TERROR [LONDON* TIMES SERVICE—COPYRIGHT] i PETROGRAD July 19 i The city" continues terror-stricken, „ Describing tho disturbances the cor- <. respondent says that the mutineers fre- t quently fired on peaceful citizens. -Even „ women were shot and trampled down. | It is impossible to say whence tho shoot- ( ing started but it was probably by the t provocateurs. ■—- j. General Polontzoff tho Military Gov- j. ernor is convinced that th© great majority of the local regiments oppose th© conspirators. j Disclosures concerning Lenin in clud© tho confession of Lieut. Fromolen oo that Lenin went to the Sixth Army to endeavour to promote a peace movement. Funds were received from Germany through tne German Legation at Stockholm and there ar© 2,000,000 rou- ii blew now standing to Koslovskvs account ii in the Petrograd bank. u M. Skobeloff has been urgently sum- n moned from the front. He is endeavouring to influence the workmen. Th© Kronstadt men intended to arrest MM. Skobeloff and Theretelli declaring that they were bought with roubles. Tw« light guns were sent to the Taurida Palace for that purpose, but they met a machine-gun regiment.. Fire was ©xchan- _ ged and seventeen were wounded. Detachments of Guards subsequently wont to 0 the Palace where M, Tzcheidke and Skobeloff addressed them ompbasasing the distinction between Democracy and Anarchy. - ,

RAMPANT SOLDIERS. Received, this day at 8.45 a.m.) PETROGRAD, July 20. Five thousand Ukrane soldiers seizvo Kief arsenal, but in consequence ui prompt Government measures they have now evacuated it, and order have now evacuated it, and order is now restored.

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