THE RUSSIA MIX UP.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 February 1918, Page 2

THE RUSSIA MIX UP.

RUSSIAN DENIAI

i '‘reuter’s” telegram.]

LONDON February 3

A wireless Russian message denies the statements that there is terror anil

chaos in Pe.trograd or elsewhere, and declares that the Kief! Rada fled Horn the authority of Kharkoff. The Ukrainian Council is recognised.

Forty-six Cossack regiments in the Don revolted against Kaledin. Duoff was,defeated and fled. I

THE SITUATION OBSCURE. ! AUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION]

LONDON, Feb. oth

In the House of Commons, Lord Hugh Cecil stated that tlie Government had no information that the Ukraine had concluded a separate peace with the Centrals.

A Reuter message states J that light is thrown on the obscure situation in the Ukraine by the speech of ,a representative of the Rada at the ' Brest Litovsk conference. He stated ; that ninety per cent, of the Rada’s candidates were elected to the Constituent Assembly, compared with ten per cent, of Bolsheviks. Candidates to the Ukranian Convention at Kieff, overwhelmingly declared for the Rada, thereupon a small group of Bolsheviks went to Kharkoff and declared itself a new Government of the Ukranian peoples’ Republic, though they hardly represent ed the town of Karkoff, much less the Republic.

INTERNAL FIGHTING. (Received This Day at 1.20 a.m.) PETROGRAD February 5. Bolsheviks officiallly announce that Soviet forces supressed a counter revolution in the Government of Lenburgcom pletely defeating General Dutoff’s army UKRAINE FIGHTING.

('Received this day at 1.20 a.m.,) PETROGRAD February 5. A telegram from Sebatopol state Tartars have occupied Yalta and are advancing on Sebastopol dealing mercilessly enroute with Red Guards, sailors and soldiers.

DELEGATES RETURN HOME. Received, this dav at 8.45 a.m. * COPENHAGEN, Feh. 6. Private messages state that the Russian delegates (have left Brest Litovsk.