RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 December 1917, Page 5

RUSSIA.

THE ARMISTICE SIGNED. ALL MILITARY OPERATIONS CEASE. •' Received 'Dec. 17, 5.5 p.m. London, Dee. 10. Wireless Russian official; General Krylenko has issued a proclamation stating that the armistice treaty signed proposes to cease all military operations until the full text is received. THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY UARStI TREATMENT OF DELEGATES 1 London. Dec. 10. The Pctrograd correspondent of the Daily Chronicle reports that twenty Social Revolutionary delegates, finding soldiers prohibiting their entrance to the debating chamber of the Constituent Assembly, held a meeting in the library. An officer ordered them out, declaring that all meetings were illegal till the As : sembly was allowed to meet. When the delegates refused to go. sailors armed with Bayonets and cutlasses removed them. The Bolsheviks have concentrated 8000 troops in the vicinity of the Taurida Palace. TAURIDA PALACE SEIZED. CONFISCATION Of CAPITAL. - Petrograd, Dec. 10, The Red Guards have seteed the Taurida Palace, preventing deputies and officials entering. , The Bolsheviks have decreed the aßblition of all military titles and decorations, the confiscation of savings banks and private capital, the disestablishment of the Church and abolition of the Holy Synod. SPOILS TO THE VICTORS. GERMANY'S RIGHT TO REWARDS. Amsterdam, Dec. 10. Herr Strcsemann, the National Liberal leader, in a speech referring to the negotiations with Russia, said that Germany should conduct these ss a military conqueror. Now that Russia was disrotving into separate parts the question of Russia's integrity could not be raised, rim old Russia was gone, and Gerhtany was entitled to harvest the rewards of her* conquests. EX-CZAR AND FAMILY. INTERNMENT* IN FORTRESS. Petrograd, Dec. MS. A meeting of the Iscmailovsky and Pctrogradsky regiments resolved on the immediate removal of the ex-Tsar with the ex-Empress and his family to Kronstadt or the fortress of Peter and Paul, and the cancellation of all their privileges.

While the meeting wa9 in progress a report was circulated that the* ex-Tsar had escaped, but the report was not mfimei. k-MMW CZAR'S ESCAPE PROBABLE. THE BOLSHEVIKS' FEAR. "Received Dec. 17, 10.35 p.m. London, Dee. 17. The Daily Chronicle's Petrograd correspondent 9aVs the Csars escape is probable Tfie Bolshevik Government has despatched fiv< hundred stfilors to Choliabinsk. in Siberia, for the purpose of preventing the Czar joining General Dutoff, commanding the &nti-Bolshevik troops at Orenburg. EX-CZAR'S ESCAPE DENIED. IRANIAN PARLIAMENT ATTACKED MAXIMALISTS DRIVEN OFF.SAILORS JOIN UKRAmANS. __ i ' Reuter Service. Received Dec. 17, 11.60 pjn. Petrograd, Dec. 17. The reported escape of tke erf-Czar is officially denied. A telegram from General NicoktiefT states that Maximalist troops at Odessa attacked the Ukranian Parliament. The Ukranian troops drove off the Maximalists. The majority of the sailors of the Black Sea fleet have joined the Ukraaiass.