RUSSIAN CRISIS.

Taihape Daily Times, 14 January 1918, Page 5

RUSSIAN CRISIS.

A LILLIPUTIAN EMBASSY. SEMI-RECOGNITION BY BRITAIN. Received 8.40. LONDON, January 13. -itvinoff is conducting his business Bussian plenipotentiary from his ie, a small maisonette in West npstead, assisted by his wife. This >robably the smallest Embassy in ory. Although not recognising the shevik Government, the British 3ign Office has established semiial relations with Trotsky, through /inoff. ON DiSTRICTS DECLARE INDEPENDENCE. PETROGRAD, Jan 12. ie Bolshevik telegraph bureau ;rts that the Don District will tly be forming itself into an incident republic. Kaledin will lably be appointed Premier # RYLENKO ORGANISING AN ARMY. LONDON, Jan 12. ie newspapers are emphasising fact that, while Trotsky is coning peace negotiations, Krylenko rganising an army, and has issued iroclamation threatening a koly against the Russian, German, ich, and British bourgeoises. THE AUSTRO-GERMAN" PEACE OFFER, tUSSO-GEEMAN ARMISTICE PROLONGED. PETROGRAD, January 12. tie Central Powers have accepted bsky's proposal to prolong the istice for another month. By Kry;o's order, voluntary detachments ;he Red Guard are forming the hern front. The Bolshevik leaders e that the peace negotiations will nterrupted, and it is therefore necry to organise resistance against German offensive which they conr imminent. A continuance of the on the old scale is impossible, and operations will be limited to dee. They hope to create a volunrevolutionary army. ,

E-UETHER NEGOTIATIONS IN PEOGRESS. . COPENHAGEN, January 11. iissian newspapers report that reentatives from. Eussia and the CenPowers have arrived at Odessa to uss Black Sea questions and partirly the future of the Dardanelles. 3XPLANATION BY TROTSKY ■ AMSTERDAM, January 12. t Brest Litovsk Trotsky said that Eussians desired to continue the le negotiations whether or not the 3nte Powers participated. He dissed about the difficultiese which been urged.by the Germans reling the transfer of the negotia--3 to Stockholm but as the Russian )le desired the speediest possible :e, he had consented to remain at it Litovsk on order to deprive the iruplice of a pretext for breaking the negotiations on technical nds.