RUSSIAN UPHEAVAL

Hokitika Guardian, 8 March 1918, Page 3

RUSSIAN UPHEAVAL

j [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. —-COPYRIGHT.) j SHIFTING 'HIE foreign OFFICE.

•'Received This Bay nt 9.50 a.m.', ; ' NEW YORK, March i. ■" The United press Petrograd correspondent sates the Foreign Office has ; moved to Niini Novgorod. ‘ Civilians exodus from Petrograd con- ■ tinues.

AGREE TO differ. jj PETROGRAD March 7. ii Differences are growing st'ronger -• daily between Leninists who are advo- :• eating the ratification the peace ? terms, and influential Bolshevik groups, I demanding their refusal. There will he j a possible split at the Moscow Con;i gress. J a COMPROMISE INDICATION. | nA T RUSSTATS EXPENSE. (Received, This Day at 8.50. a.m.) OTTAWA, March 7. j The United Press Petrograd corres- ! pendent states that all newspapers reI gard Hertling’s, Balfour’s, and Sonni- | no’s speeches ns indicating a oompro- | mist* at Russia’s expense, i Japan’ proposed intervention is re- | garded as a blow against the revolu- \ | don. j The Russians have appointed a Do- ; fqnce Council, coiisixting of commissar- 1 ies Schutkohron, Chbriyovitch and j Proschfiin. Refugees say Germans shot J or hanged 200 Russian citizens an Gurielf. Bolsheviks say Air Francis lias moved the American Embassy to Perm, ; d lias asked the Norwegian. Amlinssa dor to protect Americans in Petrograd. Six Russian students wore shot for ••• dug and conspiring for the overthrow of the Bolshevik Government.

• THE IRON HEEL. £AUSTIt iLIAN A N.SS. CAULK ASSOCIATION] .'Received Tibs ’> f >v a* L2 PETR OCR AD, March 7. Refugees say the Germans are endeavouring to form a corps ol Russians t,o reinforce the German West front. They ’threaten death if they refuse to join.. “FROM THE ASHES.” IS SPRINGING A NEW RUSSIA. LONDON, March 7. The “Daily Chronicle’s” Petrograd correspondent states there are many indications- that the disgraceful peace jvfst imposed,'-, will not be the end ol Russia, but the beginning ot a strong Russia. It is the end of Lhb old war and the beginning of a new, tougher and more complete war. i insist that despite the ruin and suffering caused bv the Bolsheviks, their leaders were not intentionally working for German interests, but were working fantastically for their own revolutionary aims; hut they have been we rated, and the .chic! violence if their wrath is now directed against German Imperialism, and is successfully stimulating against GetQuad oppression, causing a patriotic feel ing of a new type. 7

FURTHER COMMENT. I’f'ceived this day at 2.36 p.m.,) This new Bolshevik enthusiasm is certainly one of the factions for the revival of national sentiment and is shared by many other classes. It ipossible the various currents of hitler hospitality to Germany will coalesce in a big national movement of resistance to Germany’s invasion. Hence a revival of the national sentiment is possible in Russia. The Allies ought to be fostered, nevertheless it is unfortunate for us that every moment Russia is smarting under the bitter humiliation of defeat, they are faced with the threat of Japanese occupation of Siberia, in the interests of the Allies. The threat has aroused the strongest resentment in all classes or Russians.