RUSSIAN CRISIS.

Taihape Daily Times, 27 November 1917, Page 5

RUSSIAN CRISIS.

ENTENTE MINISTERS DEPARTURE PREDICTED. LONDON, November 2G. The "Daily Chronicle's" Fetrograd correspondent states that several regiments, in accordance with Lenin's orders, sent peace parliamcntaries to the Russian Headquarters, which received a German wireless message saying that taries, and would only negotiate with Germany would refuse the parliamenthe legal Russian Government or Constituent Assembly, after the Russian armies had retired sixty miles. General Dukehonin refuses to surrender the Chief Command to Ensign Kylenko. whom he threatens to arrest if he comes to headquarters. Kylenko has already left for headquarters. The Bolsheviks have appointed Colonel Mouraviff War Minister. The pro posed Tchcrnoff Coalition Government has fallen through the lack of support of army committees.

Other correspondents say the Entente Ambassadors are leaving Russia in a few days. RUSSIA S PROPOSED TRUCE. AUSTRO-GERMANS CONSIDERING IT. AMSTERDAM, November 25. German messages show that Hindenburg and Ludendorff are carefully considering the Russian offer of a truce. An Austro German milifary conference during the next two days will settle the terms on which the Central Powers are prepared to accept a truce, the terms being published before the Reichstag meets on Thursday. KALEDIN MOVING TOWARDS MOSCOfW. PETROGRAD, Nov. 25. Kaledin continues to mart- towards Moscow, where the situation is increasingly critical. ANOTHER CONFERENCE. PETROGRAD, November 25. Russian wireless. —Spiridonov, chairman of the Assembly, has addressed all deputies, from - the front, army corps, divisions, and district deputies as follows: "An extraordinary assembly has been opened. Comrades are requested to come immediately to the conference of All Russian Peasant deputies.

WHAT RUSSIA WANTED. SECRET DOCUMENTS PUBLISHED. Received 8.40. PETROGRAD, Nov. 2(3. The Maximalist News Agency has published a series of secret documents and telegrams which includes Russia's demands for Constantinople, west coast of the Bosphorus, Sea of Marmora and the Dardanelles; also Southern Thrace up to Enos, Midia line, the Asiatic coast and Islands in the Sea of Marmora also Islands of Imbrosa and Tenedas.

The Allies preferred claims demanding that Constantinople should become a free port, and further demanding recognition of their rights over Asiatic Turkey, as well as the preservation of sacred places in Arabia, under Mussulman sovereignity and the inclusion of a neutral zone in Persia within the sphere of British activity, Russia agreed thereto, being of opinion that Khalifate should be separated from Turkey, and the bargained for the retention of settlements in the Persian towns of Ispaham and Yemed. As regards the future frontiers of Germany, France demanded and Russia concurred in the return of Alsace and Lorraine, also the iron ore and coal districts and the wooded region on the left bank of the Rhine. Moreover certain wtfre fo be separated from Germany and freed from all political and economic dependence thereon, being made a free neutral state and occupied by Rus sian troops until certain conditions and guarantees were fulfilled and peace concluded. | Tcrestchenkos telegrams indicate that Britain, Italy and France impressed Kerensky with the urgent necessity of making 'the Russian' army capable of fighting. This was resented and Terestchenko expressed his appreciation to the United States for their non-participation on that occasion.

Received 9.10. PETROGRAD, Nov 26. B'olshevik soldiers threaten that unless there is a Bolshevik - majority in the Constituent Assembly they will disperse it with bayonets. MILITARY ACTIVITY. NEW YORK, November 25. A despatch from Vienna states that the Russian General-in-Chief has formally proposed an armistice to the Au--tro German commands.

TROTSKY'S PEACE .OVERTURES. PETEOGEAD, November 25. The Maximalist News Agency states that Trotsky notified the neutral diplomats at Petrograd of the measures taken to obtain an armistice. He says that immediate peace is demanded by all countries, both belligerent and neutral. The Eussian Government counts on the support Of the workmen in all countries in the struggle for peace. RUSSIA DAMAGING GERMANY. Received 10.5. New York, Nov 26. The New York World's Petrograd correspondent reports that the Russian peace move is thoroughly impregnating German soldiers and will certainly weaken their morale. "Russians are now doing more damage than ever they accomplished by fighting.