RUSSIAN UPHEAVAL.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 November 1917, Page 2

RUSSIAN UPHEAVAL.

COSSACK REPUBLIC. governorlTappointed. [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT.] PARIS, Not. 9. Le Matin’s Geneva correspondent states: The Kruban Cossacks, comprisng the Ukrainians and mountaineers, have proclaimed a separate republic, incorporated as an independent ' State in the confederation of the Russian Republic. They have confiscated landed estates and selected Colonel Felomonoff as president. | The Don Cossacks, including the whole of the Volga and steppe, and mountain districts and the Caucasians, have decided to form a Cosstfck Federation under General Alexicff, establishing a war Government of all the sane parties in Russia. | A section of the preliminary Patlia•ment have joined the movement.

JOIN THE MAXIMALISTS. AMSTEDRAM, Nov 9. A German message from Petrograd states that the troops belonging to the Russian northern army have joined the Maximalists and are marching to Petrograd.

THE NEW REVOLUTION. THE PEOPLE INDIFFERENT. A BRITISH TANK DISPLAY. "AUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABI U ASSOCIATION]

LONDON November 9. ! The “Daily Telegraph’s” Petrograd correspondent gives a vivid description of the events leading to Lenin’s conspiracy, of which Trotsky was the nominal head. I The upheaval had been threatening for a fortinght. Petrograd throughout ! was in a state of intense nervousness I owing to rumours that numer- ! ous vast- processions of armed workers were assembling. The rumours j were confirmed by bands of workmen parading the streets, singing Marsu- ’ kanks and others went about firing rifles resulting in' disorders I wherein thirty were killed or wounded but occasional murders are too ‘.common in Petrograd to arouse notice. Sometimes electric lights were suddenly extinguished for hours Crowds poured into the streets to I ' find out what had happened. They I dispersed when the lights were rej stored.

Kerensky vainly attempted to restore- public confidence in the Pro. visional Government whibh paraded armed strength and armoured cars and a British tank from the front impressively clattering up Nevsky Prospect was an imposing inspection. A women’s battalion was arranged anid wdmejn’ls marking was magnificent but their reception .\»<u* frankly ribald. Only in Petrograd would the Government attempt to 1 fight anarchism with a parade of . tanks, and women. I Iverenesky attended the Council of ! the Republic and made an uncom- | promising speech showing clearly that | he recognir.ed (the struggle between . himself and Trotsky. ! The latter is extraordinary clever, | quite unscrupulous, j Leninite military revolutionary committees are being established in all the larger Russan towns. The Kharkoff gajnson has al- . ready accepted the Leninite author- : ity. Deserters, dsaffeeted soldiers, and nationalists are siding with the military revolutionaries, who favour an immediate peace at any price. | When the All Russian conference |of Soviets, under ' Trotsky’s chairmanship opened, only 162 delegates attended being a quarter of those expected. • Kerensky’s chief source of support was the Cossacks who yesterday sent a deputation to the Premier and offered to restore order if Kerensky offered to exercise firm authority afterwards. It is understood that Kerensky accepted the offer. Capital punishment is non existent, but the would really invent Jan effective substitute. The vast ma- ’ jprity of the population of Petrograd and Russia is fully prepared to be perfeotly loyal to any Government which ensures order. Even Trotsky yesterday described Russia as a madhouse.

Thus far the Provisional Government and its opponents are chiefly engaged in slanging matches. The general mania for wordspinning is universally condemned. Kerensky on .Wednesday suppressed a number of papers and closed the Neva, bridges making Petrogrnd temporarily 7 two cities.

THE SOVIET COMMITTEE.

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LONDON, Nov. "9. The '“Daily Chronicle’s” Petrograd correspondent states that the military revolutionary committee has appointed commissaries at every important railway station to exhort the soldiers advancing on Petrograd not to obey the Provisional Government at all. The Russian conference of the SovI iets has declared itself the sovereign • Power, and has resolved that if its j democratic peace terms, hereafter to he i formulated and offered are refused Fy Germany the war is to continue. Soldiers at the front are exhorted mean- ' while to stay in the trenches It ill further notice. It also resolved that workmen in control of factories under the Soviets, grapple vith the food problem., It is stated that the Bolsheviks ar,e forming a Cabinet without any Premier the members of the Cabinet taking tarn to prescribe. After the capture of the ‘ Winter f Palace the Council of AYorkmen and Soldiers learned that tw'venty-four hours earlier Kiskin, now in gaol, had been appointed dictator.