RUSSIAN UPHEAVAL

Hokitika Guardian, 19 December 1917, Page 3

RUSSIAN UPHEAVAL

RIOTS AT HARBIN. [■‘reuter’s” TELEGRAM.J (Received this day at 12.30 a.m.) LONDON December 17. Reuter learns from Japanese sources that the Harbin population whereof are largely Jewiesh, are entirely under ■Bolshevik control. Great disorder prevails. Brigand s attacked the premises of important Japanese and other firms : The Allied Minister of Pekin declined to entrust the preservation of order to Chinese troops, who are already on route. TROTSKY INTERVIEWED. Received, this day at 8.45 a.m. NEW YORK, Dec. 18. Tho “Sun’s” Petrograd correspondent had an interview with Trotsky, who said the Bolseviks ate. the sole powerful party in Russia. We are absolute masters and will rule Russia a s we like. Millions of peace decrees will be dropned in Gorman trenches and distributed in England, France and Italy. Kerensky is a coward. The Bolseviks will win, because we are audacious. _ ' j TRANSFERRING TROOPS. j from east to west. {Received, f*^****”^ Numerous captured documents prove ’ that the Germans are transferring troops between the age of 20 and .15 years’from Russia to the ‘Western Front. All men between 20 and 30 • were ordered to be withdrawn before tho Russian armistice was signed. Ibe result is that a skeleton army of weak- ‘ lings is loft in the East which will become a training ground for hoys and a '

camp for invalids. the armistice. TEXT OF PROPOSALS. rAUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION & REUTER.] ' (Received, This Dav at 8-50. a.m.) 1 LONDON, Dec. 18. The text of the armistice is published at Vienna. , It extends from noon on November 17th to noon on January 14th, and applies to tho Russo-Turkish thcatro s in Asia. Troops on the present fronts will not lie strengthened, nor transferred, unless the transfers were already begun at the time of the signature. It prescribes conditions for development, fraternisation intercourse to be* permissablo between sunrise n.nd sunset at certain places, where not moro than 25 persons, unarmed, may assemble simultaneously to exchange newspapers ’and letters, and the sale of goods will be permitted The armistice applies to naval and aerial forces in the Black Sea and Baltic. • Attacks on merchantmen and warships are to cense ns far a s possible. The Russian Government undertakes to guarantee that

the naval forces of the Entente in these W waters shall behave similarly to the Russians. Seven armistice commissioners shall meet ait Riga, Dvinsk, Bresta Litovsk, Berdichev, Kaladuar, Foeh--5 sani and Odessa to carrv out the details. FLOODING RUSSIA. .WITH GERMAN GOODS. ("Received This Dav at 10.15. a.ml LONDON December 18. The “Morning Post’s” Petrograd correspondent says the Germans are commelncing to flood Russia witjh. theSr manufactures. Already trading has commenced on the fighting front, the • Germans bartering manufactures for foodstuff on.>a large scale. lABSTRATiTAN & N. 7.. CABT.T3 ASSOCIATION & R.KUTER.] PETROGRAD, Dec. 17th. In the fighting yesteray at Odessa between Ukraino and the Bolshevik regiments, the latter were defeated. News from the south and Siberai indicates an extension of the war. The Petrograd Banks have closed.