RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 November 1917, Page 5

RUSSIA.

AN EXTRAORDINARY ASSEMBLY. GENERAL INVITATION GIVEN. Ana. and N.Z. Cable Assoc. and Renter. ■Received Nov. 2G, 9.30 p.m. London Nov. 25. Russian wireless: M. Spiridonw, chairman of the Assembly, has issued an address to all deputies from ths front, armies corps, divisions, and district deputies, as follows: "An extraordinary Assembly has been opened, and comrades are requested to come immediately to , the conference of All Russian '.Peasant Deputies." MOSCOW QUIET. FOOD SHORTAGE. DAMAGE DURING FIGHTING. Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc. and Router. Received Nov. 20, 9.20 p.m. Petrograd, Nov. 23. A correspondent who has returned from a visit to Moscow, says that the town is outwardly calm. There are enormous queues everywhere. foodstuffs are scarce, the 'bread ration being duced to half a poufTd. The damage the town during the recent fighting is Metropole was wrecked and looted. Some churches and other large buildings were damaged. Visitors are not allowed in the Kremlin, which was hadlv damaged and looted. During the fighting people spent five days in cellars with little food. THE PROPOSED TRUCE. GERMAN TERMS TO BE ANNOUNCED f Received Nor. 26, 11.55 p.m. Amsterdam, Nov. 20. German messages state that Marshal von Hindenburg and General Ludendorff are carefully considering the Russian oli'er of a truce. An Austro-Ccrman military conference will be held within the next t'.vo days to settle the terms on which the Central Powers are prepared to accept a truce, the terms I'jing published before the Reichstag meets on Thursday. LENINISTS* AWKWARD POSITION. GERMANY WILL ONLY RECOGNISE LEGAL GOVERNMENT TROUBLE OVER ARMY MATTERS. ENTENTE AMBASSADORS LEAVING. Received Nov. 20, 11.40 p.m. London, Nov. 20. The Daily Chronicle's Petrograd correspondent states that several regiments, in accordance with Lenin's orders, have sent peace parliamentaries to Russian headquarters', which have received a German wireless message saying that Germany will refuse to meet the parliamentaries and will only negotiate with ft legal Russian Government or Constituent Assembly, after the Russians have retired sixty miles. General IDukhonin refuses to surrender the chief command to Ensign Kylenko, whom he threatens to arrest if he comes to headquarters. Ifylenko has already left for headquarters. The Bolshcviks'have appointed Colonel Mouravieff War Minister. The proposed Tcliernoff coalition government has fallen through owing to lack of support from the army committees. Other correspondents say that Entente Ambassadors are leaving Russia in a few Jays. FORMAL ARMISTICE PROPOSED: Received Nov. 20, 11.li! p.m. New York, Nov. 2.". r A Paris despatch from Vienna states that the Russian general-in-chief has formally proposed an armistice to the Austro-German commands. IMMEDIATE PEACE DEMANDED. Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc.- and Renter. Received Nov. 26, 11.15 p.m. Petrograd, Nov. 25. The Maximalist news agency states that Trotsky has notified neutral diplomats at Petrograd of the measures taken to obtain an armistice. He says ftn immediate peace i? demanded by all countries, both belligerent and neutral. The Russian Government counts on the support of the workmen in all countries in the structure for peace. KALEDIN MARCHING ON MOSCOW. Received Nov. 26, 9,20 p.m. Petrograd, Nov. 25. General Kaledin continues to march towards Moscow, where the situation is becoming increasingly critical. LIVELY FUSILLADES. Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc. and Router. Received Nov. 20, 9.20 p.m. London, Nov. 25. A Russian wireless report, states: The fusillades in the direction of Jacobstadt, where the Germans opened a strong fire, have become more lively. There are fusillades and reconnaissances on other fronts. PETROGRAD NORMAL. Stockholm, Nov. 23. The Dagblad states Wiat all is calm at Petrograd, the theatres having reopened and tlie restaurants are crowded. All goods intended for Russia are stopped at Hanaranda, and are being annt bank,