RUSSIA’S CRISIS.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 December 1917, Page 2

RUSSIA’S CRISIS.

UKRAINE REPUBLIC. £ I "iAUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION] I PETROGRAD December 7. The Ukraine Republic ignores the armistice communique, because it does not recognise the Bolshevik Government. f The Ukraine Secretariat is negotiating for the formation of a new Russian Government. Trotsky’s programme is based on the belief that the whole of the European proletariat will insist within the next few weeks on the conclusion of a general peace. He indicates hi s perfect confidence in the approach of simultaneous outbursts of pacificism, before which all the thrones and Powers. , must yield. y lUTSSIAN ELECTIONS. w TAUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION] | LODON December T. | The “Daily News” I’etrograa correspondent states that the elections I thus far allow 'that tjie j polled 2,700,000, the Cadets 2,230,000,** , the Socialists and Revolutionists 2,221, . 000. Owing to the doubtful victory Lenin presented a bill to- the Soviet conferring • on the electors the right to withdraw members from all the elective institutions including the Constituent Assembly, at any time. -Apparently the right to recall members and. replace them by other s is in the hand of local Soviets. M. Trotsky stated that if the Assembly juts a Cadet Majority it must he dispersed at the bavonet point. I AGITATORS AT WORK. rAUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION] BUCHAREST, December 7. * The Russians dn Roumania are tofu by the greatest inharmoniousness as the result of an agitation by peace mongers in the towns in tho vicinity of the front, which are crowded with soldiers listening to speeches by Bolshevik propagandists. One division of the Sixth Army signed the armistice. Another division fired upon a General accompaied by officers attempting to discuss terms. Many soldiers have deserted and are searching for better food.