RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 November 1917, Page 5

RUSSIA.

RUSSIA WEARY OF THE WAR. ANARCHY IX FINLAND. Stockholm, Nov. 21. The National Tidende says that Russia will shortly withdraw from official participation in the war. The Bolsheviks are increasing in influence, and the entire people is utterly weary of the war. Polish troops are guarding the Petrograd Embassies. Reports from Finland state that the ■ ftnarchial mob is defying the Socialist leaders and committing all kinds of excesses. GERMAN OFFICIAL REPORT. RUSSIA SUES FOR PEACE. Berlin, Nov. 21. Official circles assert that the new Russian Government has offered to con elude a separate peace. ' The press foreshadows the immediate , transfer' of German troops to the west front, .preparatory to the resumption of the offensive on a grand scale. XCTION OF ARMIES AT FRONT REFUSAL TO RECOGNISE NEW GOVERNMENT. Australian Cable Association Received Nov. 22, 9JO p.m. London, Nov. 22. A Petrograd wireless message states: All, the armies at the front have refused to recognise the new Government. Kaledik's march on the capital continues. THE PEACE CRAZE. /* CREATING AN AUTHORITY FOR NEGOTIATING. ARMISTICE TO BE OFFERED. jjlus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc. and Reuter. Received Nov. 22, 11.10 p.m. London, Nov. 22. Wireless Russian official: The All Russia Congress of Workmen's and Soldiers' Delegates has ordered a Council pf the People's Commissaries to assume, power and tp offer all belligerents an immediate aVAlstke for the purpose of opening pourparlers for a democratic peace. This offer, is firmly established in all the important districts or the sountry, find a draft message to this effect lias ftiready been communicated to the Allied plenipotentiaries in Russia. MeanWbile the council has ordered the commander-in-chief forthwith to offer enemy commanders an armistice for the purpose of peace pourparlers, and to keep the council informed by telegraph of the progress of the pourparlers, and to sign the preliminary act only after the council approves. The above communique is signed by Lenin, president of the council; Trotzky, Minister for Foreign Affairs, and three •there. t