RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, 10 November 1917, Page 5

RUSSIA.

RUSSIA'S NEW CRISIS. KERENSKY'S DISPOSITION. MILITARY IN CONTROL. LONDON, Nov 8. A Russian official proclamation has been issued by the Amies Committees and Soviet. (Council) of Soldiers Deputies, announcing that the °-arrison and proletariat of Petrograd had deposed M.. Kerensky's Government which rose against the people. The depositions of the Government was accomplished without bloodshed. Petrograd advices state that the Soviet of Workers' Deputies welcomes the change, and proclaims the authority of the Military Revolutionary Committee until the creation of a Government of Soviets. Soldiers are ordered to watch the conduct of their officers. Those who do not openly and immediately join the accomplished revolution must be arrested as enemies of the national revolutionary army. They must not permit any uncertain military detachment to go to Petrograd from the front, and must oppose sueff action mercilessly. The manifesto concludes: The soldiers are for peace, bread, land for the people, and the power of the people.

A Russian official message states: "The reunion the Soviets .opened today. Army committees were ordered to elect a delegate for every 25,000. Failure to send delegates is declared as a sin against the revolution. At an extraordinary meeting of soldiers and peasants' delegates the President (M. Trotzky) ? after declaring that the Provisional Government no longer existed, outlined the problems before the Russian democracy. The-first of these was the immediate conclusion of war, for which the new Government must proclaim an armistice to the belligerents; the second,, the handing over of the land to the peasants; and the third, the settlement of the economic crisis. The 1 ' Assembly passed a resolution in favour of the speediest possible settlement, of these problems ,and closed the sitting. The declaration was read from the House of Representatives. Maximalists in the Soldiers and Peasants' Council are disappointed at the coup d'etat, and announce their intention to withdraw from participation in ~the, Petrograd deliberations. ; KERENSKY'S EFFORTS. LONDON, Nov 9. As the telegraphs are in the hands of Maximalists, Petrograd news must be taken with reserve. News received in London from an independent source indicated that Kerensky was aware of Lenin's intention and arranged to transfer the Government, to Moscow. It is believed that Kerensky will endeavour 'to rally the moderate Cossacks and such troops as are not corrupted by the extremists.

A GERMAN STORY. TROOPS JOIN MAXIMALISTS. MARCHING ON PETROGRAD. Received 11 a.m. AMSTERDAM, ?fov 9. A German message from Petrograd states that troops belonging to the Russian Northern Army have j.oine'3 the Maximalists and are marching to Petrograd SOLDIERS AND PEASANTS' PROCLAMATION. PETROGRAD, Nov 8. The Soldiers" and Peasants' Congress of All Russia, in a proclamation delegates to the provincial branches power to releive the Government commissaries of all duties j and orders the release ,of arrested members of the agricultural committees, and the arrest of the commissaries, who arrested them. The proclamation also abolishes the death penalty, re-establishes freedom of political propaganda and orders the release of soldiers arrested for alleged political crimes, also the arrest of ex-Ministers Terestchenko, Konovaloff, Kischkin j Malantovitch, Nikitin, and others. The military are enjoined to arrest Kerensky, and all in complicity with Kerensky will be treated as guilty of high treason. The Maximalists occupied the Winter Palace, also the premises of the General Staff. The former was defended by a women's battalion of Cadets who surrendered after some shots from the cruiser Aurora and the fortress Peter and Paul on the opposite bank of the Neva, as well as fire from machine-guns in armoured cars of the Red Guards.