RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 November 1917, Page 5

RUSSIA.

| THE REBEL CABINET. MAXIMALISTS HOLD THE POWER. Received Nov. 12, 5.5 p.m. Christiania, Nov. 11. The Tidens Tcgns' Petrograd correspondent states that Lenin becomes Premier, Trotsky Minister for Foreign Affairs, and tlie rest of the Cabinet will be composed of Maximalists. Tile latter are reported to have gained the upper hand at Moscow. M. Kerensky, Generals Alexieff and Korniloff are staying at the military headquarters.

KERENSKY'S BACKING. WHY HE PLED. JOURNEY IN .MOTOR AMBULANCE. Received Xov.| 12, 5.5 p.m. Stockholm, Nov. 11. (Reports from Haparanda state that. Kerens-Icy has over 200,000 troops devoted to his cause. It will probably be unnecessary to inarch on Petrograd, the latest news indicating a veritable battle in the streets where the Cossacks and .Maximalist troops have placed tiie Lenkinst troops in a difficult position. The details of Kerensky's flight show that he learned Verkhovsky had been conferring with Lenin, Trotzky and Bolshevik, and that a coup d'etat was in contemplation, aiming to create Yorkliovcky Generalissimo and dictator. Kerersky ordered Verkhovsky to return, On the sixth he completed an anti-Kerensky plot. Kerensky discovered that secret meetings were being held at the barracks, also the defection of the gunners at the Peter Panl fortress, and the crew of the cruiser Aurora. Seeing that renistance was impossible, owing to the fewness of the. loyal troops, Kerensky fled on the night of tbo sixth and was hiddci in a motor ambulance. It is understood he was accompanied by Tere*tchenko and AlexipfY. Maximalist, patrols three times stopped the vehicle without discovering Kerens!*/.

LOYALISTS ADVANCING ON REBELS. ENCOURAGING PROCLAMATIONS. END OF REVOLT IN SIGHT. Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc, and Reuter. Received Nov. 12, 0.10 p.m. London, Nov. 11. A wireless Russian official report states: Regiments faithful to the Government and the revolution, and in agreement with the Soviet, the Cossacks, and all democratic constitutions, occupied Tsarskoe Selo town and the chief radio station, the rebels retiring in disorderly mobs on Petrograd. Severe measures will be taken against marauders of village?. Those caught will be shot. Rebels will be handed over to the Military Revolutionary Court. Malevski, the commissary for the Petrograd military district, and a member of the All-Russian Committee for saving the country and the revolution, has issued a proclamation to the soldiers at Petrograd as follows: "Gallant regiments from the front, faithful to the revolution and the country, have approached the capital in order to avoid the shedding of innocent blood. They will arrest immediately all those "betraying or ruining the country, and send delegations to the regiments moving from the front." Commissary Stankeviteh has issued proclamations to the army organisations and commissaries as follows: "The revolt against the Bolsheviks at Petrograd is increasing. Attacks on them commenced to-day, there being fuailades in the streets. The General Army Committee has occupied the telephone bureau and removed the Bolsheviks." Kcrensky is approaching Petrograd. Toward* evening communication was established with him. The liquidation of the Bolshevik adventure is only a matter of days or hours.

LANDING IN FINLAND DENIED.

MODERATES WAVERING. RAILWAYMEN ABANDON LENINISTS Received Nov. 12, 5.5 p.m. Copenhagen, Nov. 11. Swedish newspapers deny that the Germans have landed in Finland. United Service. Petrograd, Nov. 11.

The moderates are now wavering. They shrink from fighting their brethren. An armored car detachment decided not to change their support. The railwaymen have abandoned the Leninists, and will only obey in future the orders of the Committee of Safety. The civil servant strike Ims extended throughout tli© employees of sixteen ministries. TROOPS RALLY TO KERENSKY. Petrograd, Nov. 11. The troops are loyally rallying to M. Kerensky in the various towns he has visited. Even the garrison of Petrograd is inclined to renew its allegiance. The food problem will be one of the Bolscheviks' stumbling blocks. The peasants arc aware that the money which Lenin distributed was counterfeit rouble notes issued in Berlin. The permanent officials of the Foreign Office and the Ministries of Finance and Commerce have struck, refusing to serve under the Bolsheviks.

DRAMATIC CHANGES,

GOVERNMENT REGAINS CONTROL OP TELEGRAPHS. OVERTHROW OP BOLSHEVITES. KERENSKY R ETURNIXC. Received Nov. 12, 10.40 p.m. London, Nov. 12. The Daily Telegraph's- correspondent at Haparanda reports that about 200 were killed in the streets of Petrograd on Tuesday and Wednesday, when the fighting resulted in the Maximalists taking over contiol.

Sunday's Russian messages confirm the dramatic changes in the situation, showing that the Provisional Government, after four days, have regained control of the communications iwith the outer world.

The proclamations issued by Malevski and Stankevitch constitute the first news of the overthrow of Bolsheviks and the establishing in power of a new organisation named the All-Russian Committee for saving the country and the revolution. This committee sent a delegation to meet M. Kerensky, who was reported on Saturday to be'at Gatchina, 30 miles away, holding the town with a small Cossack army.

Kerensky's arrival in Petrograd is expected hourly.

Conditions in Petrograd are serious, there being only two days' supply of food. ,

LENINISTS' PEACE PROPOSALS. A THREE MONTHS' ARMISTICE. NO SECRET NEGOTIATIONS. PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT'S APPEAL. Received Nov. 12, 8.30 p.m. Copenhagen, Nov. 11. Lenin's Government issued a. manifesto on Saturday, inviting all belligerents to commence negotiations for a democratic, just, anncxationless peace, and suggesting a three months' armistice for negotiations, stating that the Russian Government was abolishing secret negotiations and -will carry on peace negotiations openly, and wiil also .publish" the secret treaties. The Provisional Government lias signed a manifesto which specially appeals to the workmen and peasants of Germany, France, and England.