RUSSIAN CRISIS.

Taihape Daily Times, 25 January 1918, Page 5

RUSSIAN CRISIS.

bolshevik: teaks.

PASSIONS OP THE MOB*.

AROUSED BY MURDERS.

LONDON, January 23

The "Daily Chronicle's" Petrograd correspondent says that Lenin and the Soviet, condemn the murders of the | ex-cadet Ministers Shingareg and Ko- . koshin, and have issued an order for | the arrest of the assasin. It is clear ; that the murders were not committed | by order of the Central Bolshevik Government, which bears the consequence of talk in the streets on Monday, in connection with the murders. This talk is menacing towards the Bolsheviks, owing to the popularity of M. Shingareff, in Petrograd, and M. Kokoshkin in Moscow. The murders indicated that the Bolshevik leaders are no longer able to control the passons of the mob, which they have aroused. The "Morning Post's" correspondent states . that it is rumoured that other ex-Ministers in the fortress of Peter and Paul suffered the same fate as Shingareff and Kokoshkin. The shortage is approaching the verge of actual famine. Money is not procurable by private persons and public bodies. The proletariat methods of raising money for current expenses are by robbery, blackmail and felony.

FIGHT

FOR A DEMOCRATIC PEACE

Received 9.35,

NEW YORK, January 24

The New York World's Pctrograd correspondent, say's that while. Trotsky is making an unflinching fight for democratic peace terms, he may fail if the Allies refuse him aid. Russia will be unable to continue to defy Germany unless she receives material assistance.

PROTEST AGAINST GERMANY'S VERSION. .

PETROGRADf Jan 23

The secretary of the Russian Legation at Brest Litovsk -has officially protested against the German version of the proceedings, wherein Trotsky's protest against Germany's change of front was not mentioned.

GERMANS FAVOUR ANNEXATION

PETROGRAD. J.

Trotsky lias returned to Petrograd from Brest Litovsk. He says the German terms preponderate in favour of annexation. They had no secret desire to seize Poland. Lithuania, and Courland. They hoped to make Moon Island a new Gibraltar, with a view to strangling Russia, economically and politically. He added that the Austrians would not participate actively in ithe negotiations but merely assent to every German j roposal. Trotsky believes a final decision will shortly be reached.

REFUSE TO WITHDRAW FROM OCCUPIED TERRITORIES.

RUSSIAN CREDULITY BETRAYED

LONDON", January 21

A wireless Eussinn political official statement declares that the German annexationists have been sufficiently powerful to impose ithcir will ifpon the evasive diplomats of the HertlingKuhlmann' school. The Austro-German delegation have refused to guarantee the -'withdrawal of their armies from This is a

tiic occupied territories.

monstrous annexation. The AustroGcrman peoples aro"&eing deceived by their own Governments before the whole world. The statement continues that ait the Brest Litovsk negotiations Austria gave her humble approval of all that Hoffmann and Kulilraann said, but this did not prevent the Austrian Socialists from telling fables to itho Austrian workmen regarding Czernin's endeavour to obtain

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FINLAND STARVING. PEOPLE DOOMED TO DESTRUCTION Received 11.5. LONDON, Jan 24. M. Kihlman, formerly AttorneyGeneral for Finland, is visiting England in connection with relief funds. Interviewed, he said Finland was on flic verge of famine; two-.fifllhs of the population were unable to obtain bread of any description Food supplies available include some millions of kilogrammes of Iceland moss, which is declared to be unfit for human consumption, and a small quantity of grain. 'Altogether only half of what

is necesary to sustain life. The Finlanders are threatened with destruction unless speedy help is available. The illicit supply of weapons to the

lowest elements in-the cemmunit

enabling thorn to rob and plunder and this aggravates the situation.