RUSSIAN CRISIS.

Taihape Daily Times, 20 December 1917, Page 5

RUSSIAN CRISIS.

REVOLUTION ACTIVITIES.

COSSACKS AND UKRANIANS.

A TREATY ARRANGED,

Received 11.40. LONDON, Dec 19

The Daily Chronicle's Petrograd correspondent says the civil war is increasingly complicated. The Ukranians have concluded a treaty with the Don Cossacks, whereto the Teres and Nubian Cossacks adhere. Fighting is expected at Kieff; it has already begun at Odessa. The Black Sea fleet is bewildered, hot knowing whther to take orders from the Petrograd Government or from Kieff; from the Bolsheviks .or the Ukranians. Rada .has announced" that the Cossacks hold Rostoff and are advancing on Voronesh. Russian Ambassadors at London and Tokio are ordered to return to Petrograd to answer charges of spreading false news regarding the armistice. If they disobey, their property will be confiscated

Banks already refuse to pay out large amounts. Anarchists are becoming more active and it is feared they will surpass the Leninists in the expropriation of goods of the bourgeoisie, middle, and upper classes.

GENERAL PEACE MOVEMENT

PETROGRAD, December 19

Kuhlmann and Czernin telegraphed that they will arrive at Brest litovsk to-morrow. They invite Trotsky to join them in order to initiate a general peace.

The Maximalist newspaper Pravda announces that the Maximalist commissioners have sent to the Ukraine Rada a 48-hour ultimatum, declaring that unless the Rad arenounces all further attempts to support Kaledin the Maximalists will declare war on the Ukraine

RUSSIANS'TO WITHDRAW FROM

PERSIA

LONDON, December 18

An additional clause of the armistice provides for early military withdrawal from Persia according to the freedom\and independence of a neutral Persia.