RUSSIA'S CRISIS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 January 1918, Page 2

RUSSIA'S CRISIS.

GERMAN PEACE TERMS. THE RUSSIAN FRONTIER, PETROGRAD, Jan. 25. Hoffmann brutally expressed the German terms of peace at Brest Litovsk, stating Germany’s future eastern frontier is to he from Riga through Valk and Dvinsk and Brest. The Russian delegate asked 'what would happen if Russia refused. Hoffmann replied that Roval would be occupied within a week. Hoffmann added: The southern boundaries would be arranged between Germany and tile Ukraine.

It appears that Germany promised Ukraine liberal boundaries at the expense of Russia, the peace being conditional on Ukraine supplying breadstuff s to Germany.

EMBARRASSING. AMSTERDAM, .Tan. 25. A Berlin telegram indicates that an embarrassing situation lias arisen at Brest Litovsk.

The Seconld Ukrainian Delegation lias arrived and denies that the previous delegation is entitled to negotiate on behalf of the Ukraine Republic, whose real Government is established at Charkoff, and professes Maximalist principles. The second Delegation comes from Charkoff. and supports Trotsky. LONDON, .Tan. 26.

The “Daily Mail’s” Petrograd correspondent says the Bolsheviks Government will refuse the German peace conditions, placing the responsibility on the Soviets Congress.

AVITHOUT RESULT ROME, Jan 26. "II Secole’s” Petrogrnd correspondent telegraphs that Lenin informed his friends at Brest Litovsk that negotiations were virtually broken eff without result

SHOOTING IN MOSCOW. PETROGRAD, Jan. 26 Serious disturbances occurred at Moscow where two revolver shots were fired at an armed Bolshevik procession. This caused a panic, the Bolsheviks firig wildly, and killing and wounding many women and children. Forty were killed and two hundred wounded in the Moscow disturbances. TO RUN RED. PETROGRAD, Jan. 25. Krylenko, addressing the Red Guards, said all liberties must be set aside during the struggle with the Boureoise. We shall shrink at nothing/not even the spreading of wholesale terror and woe to all, those attemping to cross our path. AVe will not stop until we have completely oxter minated our enemies.

A GREAT UPSET. PETRO'GR AIX Jan. 26. Polish regiments arc disobeying the democratization order for the election of Commanders. Krylenko has arrested the Executive of the Polish Military Committee at Minsk. A soldier named Buskoff, and two sailors, Rasine and Koulikovsky, have boon arrested in connection with the murders at Shinfieriff and Kobostkin.

AVAR ON KALEDIN. LONDON, Jan. 26. Wireless Russian message:—A "Congress of Cossacks from tlie front was inaugurated at Kamensky on the 23rd January. Twenty-three regiments and five batteries were represented, also all the participants in the Vcronez Conference- and labouring Cossackdom: Kaledin ordered he dispersal of the Congress and arrested the organisers. The Congrses unanimously declared to itself all authority on the Don, and sent detachments for the purpose of capturing Lilchaia Zverire. They arrested eighteen superior officers.. The Cossacks are fired with enthusiasm. They are striving to end Tvaldein with the assistance of the army of the workmen’s and peasant’s Government, with the object of destroying the bourgeoisc -in Russia, and on the Don, and leading f,o victory by a great revolution.

AUSTRIA’S OFFER. OF SEPARATE PEACE. (■Received this day at 1.20 n.m.,) PETROGRAD January 27. Tt, is reported that Austria has declared her willingness to accept a democratic programme except the selfdetermination of nations. The Bolsheviks are- contemplating a formal declaration of war against the Ukrainians • It. is reported that. Bolshevik troops have surrounded Ivieff.

PEACE DEMONSTRATIONSCOPENHAGEN, January 25. Peace demonstrators broke up fche Fatherland’s party meeting at Frank-furt-on-Main, shouting “Long live Free dom and peace,” and singing the Marseillaise.

SOVIET CONGRESS. PETROGRAD, Jan. 25. The Soviet Deputies Congress opened with dramatic enthusiasm, and with every sign of popular approval and confidence. Trotzky expressed unfailing belief in the coming assistance of the western proletariat. THE BOLSHEVIKS TOTTERING.

LONDON, Jan. 25

The “Daily Chronicle’s” Petrograd correspondent says the Bolsheviks are tottering amid the ruin they helped ,«o create, £*nd blind and senseless anarchy (threatens to overwhelm all parties. Anarchial insubordination is prevalent among the armed masses, particularly the sailors and Bod Guards: hut tho working clases are exhiWfing a strong revulsion of feeling * against (he Bolsheviks. They are holding meetings in factories and rbsolutioning no confidence i n the Bolsheviks, and deciding to recall their representatives in the Soviet, and demanding the disbanding of the Red Guards.

RED GUARD REGIMENTS. X COPENHAGEN, Jan. 25. Haparanda messages state that three , Guards Regiments have joined the side of the Constituent Asemblies, and opened hostilities against the Bolsheviks. The Bed Guards surrounded the Soviet revolutionists headquarters, and arrested fifty members of the Military organisation, formed for the defence of the Constituent Assembly. A* Brest Litovsk negotiations are bus- J pended, resuming on the 29th.

DISTURBANCE'S EXPECTED. STOCKHOLM, Jan. 25. Many trains full of soldiers from Finland are going to Petrograd. - Bolsheviks are concentrating troops expecting disturbances as the result of recent brutal murders. The head of the Bolshevik Chancellor’s office told the Workmen’s and Soldiers’ Council that a great massacre was impending, wherein the working classes would definitely and forever crush the bourgeoise. There is considerable fighting in Finland between the Red Guards and the Finnish White Guards. Bloodshed has occurred n't Viborg, Kuchava and Oeiterbotten. Red Guard excesses continue at Helsingfors and other towns.