RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, 17 December 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

THE SOVIET SYSTEM. DISCORD AMONG LEADERS. COSSACKS DEFEAT BOLSHEVIKS I STOCKHOLM, Dec. 15, The Swedish naval attache at Petrograd has been arrested. A message from Petrograd says that the Bolshevist leaders heatedly discussed the question of abandoning the entire Soviet regime. Lenin favoured the abandonment but Trotzky opposed j this course, and the latter secured a small majority for holding out. The latct advices from Kicff state that the Don Cossacks defeated Bolsheviks in a two days’ battle at Novo Cropersk, taking 1100 prisoners and 21 guns, PRZEMYSL SURROUNDED BY UKRAINIANS. Received 10.35 a.m. COPENHAGEN, Dec. 16 Ukrainian troops have surrounded Przemysl on three sides, access only being obtained by the railway westward of the city. A UKRAINIAN REQUEST. NEW YORK, Dec. 15. The New York “Times” Washington correspondent reports that the Ukrainian Congress passed a resolution requesting the Peace Conference to settle conflicting territorial claims by Poland and Ukraine by a plebiscite, CENSORSHIP ..LIFTED. NEW YORK, December 15 It is officially announced that the ban has been lifted off practically all exports to England, France, Italy, Japan and their colonies and protectorates. Similar action affecting Norway, Sweden, Holland, Switzerland, Spain and Central America as will soon be taken.