RUSSIA'S CRISIS.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 December 1917, Page 2

RUSSIA'S CRISIS.

MORE DISSENSIONS. LONDON, Dec 9. A wireless Russian message says:— W There is published a significant proclamation by the Bolshevik regime, the admissions wherein indicate that pow- i erful counter-forces are "now working. Tho proclamation, after attempting to excite class passions by accusing the Cadets lavishly financing the counterrevolution, states that Kaledin, assisted by Korniloff, will declare a state of war in the Don region; that Hindenburg will supply bread to the front, Kaledin collecting the forces and menacing Moscow and other towns, Dutoff, in the Ural, has been arrested.

Tho Military Revolutionary Committee at Orenbourg is endeavouring to cut off the supply of (bread from Siberia for the front. Korniloff is attacking two places in the Caucasus. The Central Rada of the Ukraine is drawing troops to the Don region. Hindenburg is distributing the Bolshevik suppressive military forces. The proclamation says the Revolution is endangered, and armed resistance will be offered to counter-revolutions. It decrees that all places where the counter Revolutionary detachments are discovered will be in a state of siege. Negotiations of any kind are forbidden.

The people and the railwaymon are assisting. The counter-revolutionaries are threatened with the direst penalties. The leaders of the conspiracy are declared outlaws. WAR AGAINST KALEDIN. rAUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CAB7.E ASSOCIATION & REUTER.] PETROGRAD' December, 10. 'Flie Ukrainian Rada has declared for an immediate armistice. It transpires that th e Turks, not the Russians, proposed an armistice in the Caucasus front. Bolsheviks have openly declared war against Kaledin anj order Krylenko to send as many troops as possible from the front to crush the Cossacks MAXIMALIST PROCLAMATION. PETROGRAD December 9. Peace delegates state that the Germans offered to transmit revolutionary literature 4o France, England, and Italy; but they absolutely forbid it in Germany

THE BOLSHEVIK PROGRAMME. LONDON December 9. Russian wireless:—Bolshevik’s regime proclaims all lands, live and dead stock, farm produce, and buildings to be national property. Private ownership in land is abolished. Landowners houses will serve the public as schools ) hospitals, shelters, and theatres. Local m land committees are ordered to safe- ( ■ guard them from destruction. WHAT GERMANY WANTS. NO SURRENDER OF OCCUPIED TERRITORY. CONTROL OF RUSSIAN WHEAT. [LONDON TIMES SERVICE —COPTRIGEt] PETROGRAD, Dec. 10. M. Bouchier reports: It is stated on good authority that Germany’s terms in elude no surrender of occupied territory ; free trade for manufactures ; control of the Russian wheat market for fifteen years. The “Daily Mail’s” Petrograd correspondent States: It is understood . the slowness of the negotiations are [ partly attributable to the Germans demanding the evacuation of South-west-ern Galicia and the Black Sea districts, and disarming certain units. BRITISH SYMPATHY. , Received, this day at 845 a.m. PETROGRAD,. December 10. Sir George Buchanan in a statement to the Russian press, says Britain is sympathetic towards Russia. The Kaiser will never agree to a democratic peace when he knows the Russian army | has ceased to exist.