RUSSIAN CRISIS.

Taihape Daily Times, 28 January 1918, Page 5

RUSSIAN CRISIS.

THE PEACE CONGRESS. TOO MANY PARTIESSECOND UKRAINE DELEGATION. AMSTERDAM, January 25. A Berlin telegram indicates that an embarrassing situation has arisen at Brest Litovsk. A second Ukrainian delegation has arrived. It denies that the previous delegation was entitled to negotiate on behalf of the Ukraine Republic, whose real Government was established at Charkoff, and professes Maximalist principles. The second delegation comes from Charkoff and supports M. Trotsky.

MURDERED MINISTERS. THREE* ARRESTS MADE. •sa k pETROGRAD, January 25/ A soldier named Buskoff and two sailor's ' named Rasine' and Koulikovsky have been arrested ; in connection with the murders of M. Shingareff and Kokoshkin, Cadet Ministers. ■Jf. POLAND'S ARMY.

POLAND'S ARMY.

PETROGTRAD, January 25

Polish Tegiments are disobeying the democratization order for the election of commanders. Ensign KrylenKo, the Bolshevik Commander-in-Chief, has arrested the executive of the Polish Military Committee aFMinsk.

MAXIM GORKY WOUNDED.

Received* 8.45.

NEW YORK, Jan 27.

A ; United Press correspondent at Pet;rograd states that Maxim Gorky has been wounded by a stray rifle shot.

A GREAT MASSACEE .PPENDING.

WORKERS TO WIPE OUT BOURGEOISE.

STOCKHOLM, Jan. 25,

Many trains full of soldiers from Finland are going to Petrograd. The Bolsheviks are concentrating troops, expecting disturbances as a result of the recent brutal murders . The head Bolshevik at the Chancellor'suffice told the Workmen's and Soldiers' Council that a great massacre was impending wherein* the working classes would definitely and forever crush the Bourgeoise.

"WE SHAH, SHRINK FROM

NOTHING "

PETROGRAD, January 25,

Krylenko, addressing the Guards, said: All liberties must be set aside during the struggle with the B'oufgeoise. We shall shrink from nothing, not even spreading wholesale terror and woe to all attempting to cross our path. We will not stop until we have completely exterminated all our enemies.

BOLSHEVIKS TO FIGHT UKRAINIANS.

PETROGRAD, January 27. It is reportetWthat Austria has declared her readiness to conclude peace without Germany, and to accept a democratic programme, except the selfdetermination of nations.

The Bolsheviks are contemplating a of war against the Ukrainians.

It is reported that Bolshevik troops liave surrounded Kieff