RUSSIAN CRISIS.

Taihape Daily Times, 29 January 1918, Page 5

RUSSIAN CRISIS.

RUSSIAN METAMORPHOSIS.

DUE TO UNLIMITED VODKA.

PETROGRAD, Jan 27

The sudden metamorphosis of the temperate and orderly Russian masses to lawless pillaging and murdering mobs is due to the unlimited manufacture of vodka. The revolution has swept aside the Czar’s decree, and distilleries have been started everywhere

BREST LITOVSK CONFERENCE..

GERMANY SHOWS HER HAND.

LONDON, Jan 27,

Mr. Harold Williams, cabling from Petrograd, states that the Bolshevik

newspapers admit that the Brest Litovslc negotiations exposeid' ‘the ' Ger&marf Government’s intention to annex the r Weßtofn provinces'‘of Russia; They claim that their knowledge of the fact' is ifde to the Bolshevik efforts to explain'that no matter if Hoffmann carries cwt his threat to seize’ Reval, he will rftlly expose to the German army and people and lead to the ’ overthrow of the existing Berlin regime. Meanwhile the Bolsheviks are dallying with a scheme for resisting the Gerr man advance by creating a highlypaid volunteer army to engage in a holy, war against all,; imperialisms. They are also, waiting to sheltered fle{£jaised in :; Austria. They Petrograd is destined to become t£e capital of the federation of the Soviet. Republics, Trotsky, however, tells his co-revolutionaries that the bourgeoises of the west are much better organised .than the Russian, and that the progress of the revolutions must be slow. The attempt to make peace with Ukraine separately irritated the Bolsheviks exceedingly, despite their proclamation of the right of each nationality to determine its own destiny. Hence the delegations consisting of ■workmen, and non-coms, from Reval and Kharkov, who were sent to Brest Litovsk.

TROUBLE IN POLAND.

PETROGRAD, Jan 27. Owiag to the Maximalists arresting the letters of the Polish military organisation, Polish Legionaries occupied several railway stations in the Maghileff district, and disarmed the Russian garrisons^

THE SOVIETS' CONFERENCE.

PETROGRAD, Jan 27.

The Soviet Deputies Congress opened with dramatic enthusiasm, and every sign of popular approval and confidence.

Trotsky expressed his unfailing belief in the coming assistance of the Western proletariat.

GREAT SPEECH BY LENIN.

WAR UNTIL COMPLETE VICTORY

LONDON, Jan 27.

The Soviets Conference at Petrograd has adopted all the points in the Lenin-Trotsky programme, including the disarmament the bourgeoise. Lenin, in a great addressing the Conference, “We shall continue the civil war vntil we gain la complete victory. tfe shall make mistakes, as we have a great task, with 'Atfopyhead/' Thug Par the Conferecnce has not discussed peace terms, to the dismay of the majority of the delegates.