RUSSIAN UPHEAVAL.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 February 1918, Page 3

RUSSIAN UPHEAVAL.

CAPTURE OF ULEABORQ

(Received This Day at 11.25. a.m.) (LONDON, Feb. 7. The “ Morning Post’s ” Stockholm correspondent says the Red Guards in ■Finland have appealed to Sweden to the new Socialist Government. ■Sweden will probably ignore the com-

iriijinication. Mannerheim, after several days regular tranch warfare, followed by street fighting, recaptured Uleaborg. The town was greatly damaged by fire. Hundreds were killed on either side. Red Guards decreed the death penalty for all White Guards taken prisoner. t TROTSKY’S MESSAGE.

( Received This Day at 11.25. a.m.) LONDON' February <.

Trotsky sent a message “Greetings to the heroic working clases now wresting power from the Rourgeoise . The Fin. nisli Republic is making itself a model Socialist autonomy. Long live our sister Socialist Finland.” '

TELEGRAPH CUT. (Received, This Day at 11.25. a.m.) LONDO February i. The absence of reports from 1 rotsky is explained by German agents action in cutting the telegraph to suppress news of the German domestic troubles. ' FINNISH BATTLES. MARCHING NORTH.

(Reuter’s Telegrams.) (Received This Day- at noon.) .} PETROGfRAD February 7. General Alexieff is reported to be marching north. He has occupied a number of stations in the direction of Kharkoff and Yorones.

Tlie) Bolshevik agency report that the Red Guards have captured Taminerfors in Finland after a fierce battle, defeating ten thousand White Guards commanded by Mannerheim.

AT BREST LITOVSK. (Received Tlfia Dav at noon.) AMSTERDAM February 7. The “Volks Zeitung”’, states the conference at Brest iLitovsk is resuming on the 7th . The chief object of the Centrals is to conclude a peace with Ukraine.