RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 December 1917, Page 5

RUSSIA.

[ GENERAL KORNILOFFS ESCAPE. it TO SOUTHERN RUSSIA London, Dec. 5. General Komiloff escaped with the connivance of his guards, and has gone southward with four companies of Cossacks. , HAIR-BRAINED SCHEMES. COMMITTEES TO RUN INDUSTRIES. London, Dec. 0. An official telegram from Petrograd states that the Government intends to abolish the autocracy of capitalist and manufacturers, also to diminish profits, arranging that workers in each workshop stall elect a committee to control production and labor conditions. THE ALLIED AMBASSADORS. SOT CONSULTED BY BOLSHEViKS. Received Dec. 0, 10 p.m. Times Service. Petrograd, Dec. 5. Mr. Bourchier states that M. Trotsky, replying to a statement that negotiations were ordered nineteen hours before the Ambassadors were informed of the Soviet's declaration, says he sufficiently informed the Allies. He did not regard their views as important, being guided only by the principles of democracy. The interests, of the workers of the world desired a general, not a separate, peace. Tlie Bolsheviks have arrested many hostile journalists for alleged plotting. Other arrests of anti-Bolsheviks are continuous,, A remnant o'f the Provisional Govern' ment has appealed to the army and citizens to defend the Constituent Assembly and eject the usurpers. An armistice would lead only to ruin and economic slavery.

[ CHURCH MARRIAGES ABOLISHED. A REIGN OP .TERROR INAUGURATED. \Reoeived Dee. 6, 11.40 p.m. Petrograd, Dec. 5. The Bolsheviks have drafted a law abolishing church marriages and substituting civil ceremonies, conferring equal rights upon legitimates and illegitimate children, and providing for easy divorce; also foT permitting hurials in consecrated ground without ceremony. The Red Guard is leading a reign of terror. Arrests are apparently instituted on the pretext of plundering and looting the houses of the wealthy. The newspaper Novoe Vremya has been seized. SWEDIST MEDIATION DENIED. Stockholm, Dec. 5. Tlio Foreign Ministry denies the report that the Swedish Legation at Petrograd is mediating in the Russo-German negotiations*