RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 November 1917, Page 5

RUSSIA.

THE DISINTEGRATION PROCESS. COSSACKS DECLARE INDEPENDENCE. Times Service. Received Nov. 27, 5.40 p.m. London, Nov. 28. Mr, Bourehier states tiat the Cossack forces have left thu front, and joined General ICaledin in the Caucasus. They have elected a pprliament, and declared their independence. The disintegration of Russia proieeds apace.

PEACE NEGOTIATIONS. NORTHERN ARMIES PILLAGING. Received Nov. 27, 5.5 p.m. Washington, Nov. 20. The United State.? Ambassador reports that Petrograd and Berlin are in wireless communication, presumably discussing the peace offer. Fears of food shortage are causing the northern armies to leave the trenches and start pillaging.

ALLIES' PROTEST. AGAINST SEPARATE PEACE. Received Nov. 2S, 1.35 a.m. London, Nov. 27. . The Daily Telegraph's Paris correspondent) Understands that the Allies aro making a joint protest to the Russian people against the proposed truee, which is a flagrant broach of the Pact of London, It is believed thnt France, as Russia's earliest ally, is adding a separate protest: ,

A REBEL ORDER. TROOPS TO DISBAND. ARMISTICE ON ALL FRONTS. • BOLSHEVIKS' HAUL Al' MOSCOW, Times Service. ' Received Nov. 28, 1.30 a.m. Petrograd, Nov. 27. Mr. Bourchier reports that the Minister for War on the 22nd issued the following order to the Petrograd garrison: ''The war is over. An armistice begins on all fronts. Disband and return all arms to the depots.'' The Bolsheviks are sending an envoy to Stockholm, hoping, to initiate a peace conference. Kaledin has collected .i large force in the Don Valley, augmented from tlie front. On the other hand, the Bolsheviks claim to control all the cities, including Nijni Novgorod, Kieff, Kharkov, Odessa, Saratoff and Kazan. The Bolsheviks seized paper and gold at Moscow to the value of £270,000,000. Korniloff is still in gaol. General Brusiloff, as the result of a tvound received in Moscow, had a leg amputated. It is reported from Haparanda that the Allied Ministers at Petrograd demand their passports if a separate peace is negotiated^

TROOPS STARVING. THOUSANDS LEAVING THE FRONT. HUNDREDS DYING OF COLD AND HUNGER. Received Nov. 27, 8.40 p.m. Copenhagen, Nov. 20. There is hunger-striking to the verge of bloody civil war in Russia. The northern armies have been foodless for 3 days. Thousands of soldiers are leaving the front, hundreds are> dying in the trenches of cold and hunger, mutinies are general, and mobs are pillaging the food trains.

ESCAPE OF EX-CZAR'S DAUGHTER. ON HER WAY TO AMERICA PLEA FOR AMERICAN HELP. TO CREATE STRONG DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT. Received Nov. 27, 8.30 p.m. New York, Nov. 28. It is announced that Tatiana Romanoff, the second daughter of the ex-Czar, has escaped from Siberia and is en route across the Pacific to New York. She lectures and writes for the benefit of the Russian Civilian Relief Committee, and urges the United States not to abandon Russia, but to combat Socialistic and German influences. She does not desire the restoration of her father, but favors a strong democratic government, reseiribling that of the United States. She hopes to assist in replacing Russia with the Allies. She escaped through a mock marriage with the son of the ex-Court Chamberlain, thus permitting her freedom. CONTENTS OF TREATIES KNOWN. Received Nov. 27, 8.40 p.m. Petrograd, Nov. 20. .The publication of the treaties and diplomatic documents has not aroused flny sensation, the swbstanee of the content? beitis already known