SHOOTING THEIR BOLT.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 December 1917, Page 5

SHOOTING THEIR BOLT.

ROLSIIEVIKS OPPOSED BY CADETS. KALEDIN ON THE WARPATII. BOLSHEVIKS' FOOD SUPPLY CUT OFF. ' Received Dec. 10, 10 p.m." London, Dec. 9. The Ru=sian Government publishes a significant proclamation by the Bolshevik regime, the admissions wherein indicate that powerful counter-forces are now workij!,'. The proclamation, after attempting to excite class passions and accusing the Cadets of lavishly financing a counterrevolution, states' that General Kaledin, assisted by General Kornilofl', has declared a state of war in the Don region, hindering the supply of Bread for the front. General Kaledin is collecting forces and menacing Moscow and other towns. He lias arrested the military revolutionary committee at Orenburg, and is endeavoring to cut off the supply of breadstuffs from Siberia for the front. General KaranlofT is attacking two places in the Caucasus, and drawing troops to the Don region, hindering tlio distribution of the Bolshevik suppressive military forces The proclamation say* the revolution is endangered, and thofc jtmed resistance will be offered to the counter-revolution-aries. It decrees all places where counterrevolutionary detachments are discovered to be in a state of siege. Negotiations ot any kind are forbidden the people. Railwaynien assisting the counterrevolutionaries arc threatened \vitlt the direst penalties. The leaders of the conspiracy have been declared outlaws. TERMS TO BE IMPOSED ON RUSSIA. SQUASHING THE ALLIES ON THE WEST. HINDICNBURG'S BOAST. Received Dec. 11, 12.0 a.m; Amsterdam, Dec. 10. Marshal von Hindenhurg and General von Ludendorfl have conferred with Baron von Hertlina, the Chancellor, regarding the terms to be imposed upon Russia, also respecting ITinflenburg's new scheme to squash the British, French, and Italians before tile Americans' help can be effective. There is a continued great rush of men and material westward. It is reported that Tlindenburg said: 'if we sign a peace in Paris we will force almost any terms upon the French and British." SOME OF GERMANY'S TERMS. TAKING NO RISKS. Times Service. Received Dee, 10, 10.50 p.m. ■Petrograd, Dec. 10. Mr. Bourchier reports that it is stated /m good authority that Germany's terms include: No surrender of the occupied territory. Free trade for German manufactures. Control of the Russian wheat market for 15 years. The Daily Mail's Petrograd correspondent states it is understood that the slowness of the negotiations is partly attributable to the Germans demanding the evacuation of sonth-western Galieift and the Black Sea district and the disarming of certain units. THE GUILE OF THE HUNS. SOME STRIKING! ILLUSTRATIONS. TURKS PROPOSE ARMISTICE. TROOPS SENT AGAINST KALEDIN, Keceived Dec. 10, 10.55 p.m. iPetrograd, Dec. 10. The peace delegates state that the Germans offered to transmit revolutionary literature to France, England and Italy, but absolutely forbade it In Ger> many. The German peace terms forbade | Russia to navigate the Baltic, except between Petrograd and Kronstadt, where navigation is impossible owing to 1 the ice.

The Ukrainian Rada has declared for an immediate armistice.

It transpires it was the Turks, and 'not the Russians, who proposed an armistice on the Caucasian front. The Bolsheviks have openly declared war against General Kaledin, and- ordered General Krylenko to send as many troops as possible from the front to crush the Cossacks. PRINCESS* ESCAPE DENIED. London, Dec. 9. Messages from Berlin deny ths flight of the Princess Tatiana, and assert that she is still an inmate of a convent near Tobolsk under guard. A KORNILOK-KALEDIN COMBINATION. Washington, Dec. 9. The Russian Embassy learns that antiBolshevik elements in the Caucasus and South Russia are hopeful of success. It is believed that Kaledin and Korniloff will shortly unite and control half a million Cossacks, who will attack the Bolsheviks. ATTITUDE OF FRANCE. Petrograd, Dec. 9. T!ie French Embassy intimates that France will only recognise the Constituent Assembly as it alone is able to express the Russians' will. France will not sever all relations with Russia if the latter enters ipto a separate peace, inasmuch as war material for Roumania must still traverse Russia. .