RUSSIAN UPHEAVAL

Hokitika Guardian, 23 November 1917, Page 3

RUSSIAN UPHEAVAL

MARCH ON PETR OCR AD. AUSTRALIAN «$5 N.Z. CARI.E ASSOCIATION] LONDON, Nov. 22. A Petrograd wireless reports that all irinies at the front refused to recognise he now Government. Kaledin’s march on the capital ooninuos.

ARMISTICE OFFERED. TO ALL BELLIGERENTS. LONDON. Nov. 22. Wireless Russian Official: The AllRussian Congress of Workmen’s and Soldiers’ delegates has ordered tiie Council of the Peoples’ Commission to assume power, and offer all belligerents an immediate armistice for the purpose of opening pourparlers for a democratic peace.

This offer is firmly established in all important- districts of the country. A draft message to this effect- lias vlroady been commmunicated to the A 1 ied Plenipotentiaries in Russia. Mean

while the Council has ordered the Commander-in-Chief forthwith to offer the enemy Commanders an armistice for the purpose of peace pourparlers, and to keep the Council informed telegraphically of the progress of the pourparlers and sign the preliminary act only after the Council ha's approved. The above communique is signed by Lenin as President of the Council, and Trotsky, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and three others.

BOLSHEVIKIS CRUELTIES. SUFFERINGS OF CADETS. (Received. This Dnv at 8.50. a.m.) COPENHAGEN, Nov. 22. Several Petrograd newspapers expose the Bolshevikis cruelties, and affirm that released Austro-Germans assisted the Bolshevikis in the lighting against Kerensky. The troops’ commission investigated the treatment of the Cadets imprisoned in the fortress of Peter and Paul, and found they had received no food or water for forty lwmrs. The bodies of twenty Cadets, some decapitated, were found in neighbouring canals.

The commission was not permitted to visit the cells of the Women’s battalion owing to the fact that the women were subject to every possible cruelty.

FINLAND UPHEAVAL. Received, this day at 8.45 a.m. COPENHAGEN, Nov. 22. Great events are impending in Finland. The Socialists and Bourgeois parties have joined in a compromise directed against the Prussians. Fighting is expected momentarily.

LENIN’S MANIFESTO,

TO TAKE OVER ESTATES

Received, this day at 8.45 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 22

The “Daily Chronicle’s” Petrogracl correspondent says Lenin has issued a proclamation to the peasants and workers, asserting that the Government is now in his hands. He lias ordered the local Peasants’ Councils to take over estates immediately, and hold them pending the preparation of a scheme for their apportionment. The correspondent denies that a majority of the people support the Roshevikis Government, which is very weak and only controls the armed forces, while all Socialists and nonSocialist parties, and practically the whole of the people opposed it. Prominent Ttosheviki are pessimistic believing the Government is doomed to fall.

LENIN, A FANATIC. LONDON, Nov. 22. The correspondent of the “Morning Post” adds that it is absurd to regard Lenin as a German agent, but his fanaticism is such that he would go to any lengths to achieve his ends. He would glady accept German money and officers, for the purpose of effecting a Social Revolution. Money for himself would not tempt Lenin, whose only aim i s the forcible establishment of Socialism.

A REQUEST DECLINED. [ LONDON TIMES SERVICE —COPYRIGHT] Received this day at 2.36 p.m.,) PETROGRAD November 22. The Soviet’s executive after hearing Lenin and Trotsky declined to suppress the Bourgeois newspapers and confiscate the press.