RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 November 1917, Page 5

RUSSIA.

PETROGRAD ISOLATED. THE TRUTH UNOBTAINABLE, London, Nov. IS. | Pctrngrnd has been isolated since Tuesday afternoon and wireless signals have not been answered.

The Daily News' Stockholm correspondent says it is impossible to discover the truth from the welter of rumor coming from Russia. Tlie Bolsheviks, while looting the Winter Palaee, committed horrible cruelties on the Women's Battalion who were defending the palace.

REBEL LEADER'S CLAIMS.

NAVAL- GUNS COMMAND THE CITY. Copenhagen, Nov. lf>. Colonel Muravieff, commander of the anti-Kerensky forces, has issued a prqclanmtion that it is untrue Ilia t the Pctrograd troops went to Kerensky. He says they evacuated Gatchina for the purpose of avoiding unnecessary bloodshed and took a better defensive position outfiide Pctrograd. Even if Kerensky was reinforced tenfold they were safe in the capital, which was orderly and quiet. ■ The cruisers Aurora and Nrju and six torpedo-boats are anchored in the Neva and their guns command the whole of the city.

ANARCHY IN THE PROVINCES,

TWO THOUSAND KTLLED AT MOSCOW. KO TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION. EVENTS WRAPPED IN MYSTERY. Reecived Nov. 16, 8 p.m. London, Nov. 15. The latest rumor from the Finnish frontier is to the effect that there is wholesale anarchy in tho Russian provinces. Two thousand were killed at Moscow. There were veritable pogroms at Kieff, Storoness, and other towns.

United Service. Received Nov. 10, 10 p.m. London, Nov. 10. Swedish telegraphists failed to secure a response from Pctrograd.

There has been forty hours' silence at the Tsarsko Selo wireless station, which indicates that the apparatus is also smashed. Events are wrapped in mystery. Most of the Scandinavian reports are coming from a suspicious source. Finland has declared complete separation from Russia. Assassinations in Finland include Ivordelin, an aged privy councillor, who left thirty-six million francs to charities.

KERENSKY ATTACKED,

A COALITION GOVERNMENT PROPOSED MAKING PEACE FIRST TASK. Received Nov. 16, 5.5 p.m. London, Nov. 15. There is still no reliable news from Petrograd, although the Politiken asserts telephone messages received at Helsingfors state that when the revolutionaries reconquered Gatshina, Kerensky, with three to five thousand men, retired southwards. A part of the northern army was despatched to cut Kerensky's rearguard. The people seem to have lost confidence in Lenin and Tortsky. It is intended to form a social revolutionary coalition government, representing all parties excepting the well-to-do. The first task of the new Government is to make peace. KERENSKY'S FORCES DEFEATED. HIS COSSACK SUPPORTERS FLEE..

I AN ARMISTICE AT MOSCOW. Received Nov. 17, 12.5 a.m. New York, Nov. 15. The Evening Globe's Pelrograd correspondent, writing on November. 11, stated that the situation was then ncaring a settlement by the forming of a coalition Government Kcrensky was definitely defeated, in a great battle. His Cossack supporters fled. The Soviet troops recaptured Gatchina .and Tsarsko Selo. Street fighting in Moscow ended in an armistice IWrogrml is calm, and complete order prevails. REPORTED BURNING OF PETRO- ; GRAD Copenhagen, Nov. 15. The Politikcn states that it is reported that Pet'rograd is burning.