RUSSIA'S CRISIS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 December 1917, Page 2

RUSSIA'S CRISIS.

INTERNAL RUSSIA. LONDON, Doc. 4th. A wireless Russian official telegram from Ivliansky, president of the Congress of the Fifth Army, states that a delegation from the Council of the Peoples Commissaries, at the invitation of the Congress, a'rrvicd at Divirisk on Sunday. The Congress solemnly promised to destroy all wasp nests of the counter revolution which were obstacles to peace, particularly the nest of Dukhonin. Getavkcontieff,. and other traitors to the revolution sitting at Mohiloff.

The delegates then departed, the German delegates receiving them in the evening in the neutral zone. There was a demonstration at Dvinsk -when banners were displayed, inscribed ■ “Long Live the Council of the Peoples * Commissaries' Th*y will control production and abolish secrecy. In the trenches spirits are high. TROTSKYS’ STATEMENT. [LONDON TIMES BEBVICE--COPTBIGHx] JtETROGRAI), Dec. 4. M. Bourchier states that Trotsky, addressing the Ambassadors in reference to protests against the Bolshevik, negotiations, declared that the Govcrnmen could not tolerate interference with internal affairs. The to re-kindle it would provoke retaliation.

Trotsky dissolved the Petrograd Muncipal Council because it opposed the Bolsheviks order to continue work under threats of punishment till its successors were appointed. The Council refused to accept a dissolution and appealed for the nation’s support as 'the only legal Government left, adding that the officials refused to obey the new powers; but bayonets compelled them. JOINT ACTIOS. COPENHAGEN December 4. The “Berlingske Tindende’s” Haparanda correspondent states that it is rumoured that Japan and America have agreed to joint action, against Russia. The Finance Ministry has received Information of the Allies’ economic retaliatory measures in the event of a separate peace. ’RUSSIA OUT OF WAR, TAUSTH ALIAN «5 N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION’] A KEUTEB.] PETROGRAD 'December 4. Mr Harold Williams' states: We must face the facts one way or the other. Russian, despite the will of the best elements in the population, must retire from the war. He warns the Allieg against contemptuously abandoning the whole of this great people because of a temporary fit of madness, the cause whereof lie deep i n her years of oppression. If we have to part with Russia as a fighting ally, Ihe parting should be friendly and sympathetic. To denounce her as a traitor is the surest way of driving her into the arms*of Germany. SIBERIA ATTITUDE. STOCKHOLM, December 4. It is reported that the whole of Siberia has formed an independent republic. It is expected that the Government at Omsk will issue a proclamation withdrawing the Siberian troops from the Russian front. The Kuban district has also formed a republic. SEIZING THE LAND. LONDON Decembetr 4. A wireless message from Petrograd says: The All Russian Congress of Peasants deputies resolved to demand that all land of any agricultural value together with stock, buildings and implements belong to farmers who are not the sole workers, be forthwith transferred to the Land Committee to distribute to the peasants.