RUSSIA’S CRISIS.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 November 1917, Page 3

RUSSIA’S CRISIS.

THE COUP D’ETAT

KERENSKY TO BE ARRESTED

PETROGRAD November ST The Coup d’etat was accomplish* at five o’clock on Wednesday 11 ' when three Cossack reg.ment: quartered fn .Petrograd refused . march against the Maximalists but declared Keir intention to mamtau whereabouts are unknown. The hope » expressed thn he reached Moscow th e lA«; ists are certain to attcmp S«.g a Govern™"*.« tV »»!,,„ « Petroerad i s not regamed. r rr gt 4 »f «**. -* as a congress of all Russia in a Pio damatTon delegates to branch the power to «* eminent commissaries of all d the arrest of the commissaries who ai ' The also ahohfhe. freedom of political propaganda. H orders the release of soldiers ed for alleged political S -the arrest! of Ex-Minister* Te.esto henko, Konova-loff, IKixdilkm, Malantovitch. Mikilin and others The military are enjoined • Kerensky and all in complicity h Kerensky are to bo treated as gudU of high treason. NEWS UNRELIABLE. LONDON November 8 As the telegraphs are of the Maximalists Petrograd neus must be taken with reserve. News received in (London from a u independent source indicated that Kerensky w.ll endeavour to rally the moderate CosBacks and such troops as are imcorrupted bv the Extremists.

MAXIMALISTSf TAKE CHARGE (Reuter’s Telegram.)

(Received this day at 12.30 a.m.) PETROGRAD, November W. The Maximalists have occupied Winter Palace also the premises of the General Staff. The former was defended by the Women’s Battalion and Cadets, who surrender after some sho s from tho cruiser Aurora and the fortress of Peter and Paul, on the opposite bank of tho Neva, aa well as fire from tho machine guns in armoured cars of the Guards. COMMUNICATION STOPPED. (Received. This Day at 8.50. a.mT .STOCKHOLM November 9. The railway between Petrograd and Finland is broken and telegraphic commiinication is stopped. NO BLOODSHED I NEW r YORK Nov. 9tii. Reuter’s Petrograd correspondent writing on the 7th s ays at present there i s „o bloodshed, and only a few minor street collisions. The situation is ob-