RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 December 1917, Page 5

RUSSIA.

KERENSKY REAPPEARS. WITH THOUSANDS OF SOLDIERS. BOLSHEVIKS PROCEEDING TO MEET ■HTM. Received Dec. 20, 5.5 p.m. Copenhagen, Dec. in. It is reported that Kerensky has reappeared in the vicinity of I'eiTogrud, leading thousands of soldiers. Bolshevik troops have iieen sent to meet hi in. It is expected that private accounts in the bank's will soon be confiscated. CONFUSION INCREASING. UKRAINIAN* JOIN COSSACKS. BLACK SEA BEWILDERED. LoniTon, Dec. 1!). The Petrograd correspondent of the Daily Chronicle says that the civil war is increasingly complicated. The Ukrainians have concluded a treaty with the Don Cossacks, to which the Terek and Nnban Cossacks adhere. Fighting is expected at Kie/F, and has already begun at Odessa. The lllaek Sea fleet is bewildered, not knowing whether to take orders from the Petrograd Covernment or the Kiel)' (Movement, from the Bolsheviks or the Ukrainian Rada. H is announced that the Cossacks hold Rostofi" and are advancing on Veronesh. The Russian Ambassadors in London and Tokio have been ordered to return to Petrograd to answer charges of having spread false news regarding' the armistice. If they disobey their property in Russia will be confiscated. The banks already refuse to pay out large amounts and the anarchists arc becoming more active. It is feared they will surpass the Leninists in the expropriation of the goods of the bourgeoisie, the middle and upper classes.

A SIBERIAN MOVE. AX INDEPENDENT NATION. New York, Dec. 19. Tho United Press correspondent at Tokio states that Americans arriving from Petrograd assert that Siberiit is planning self-government as an independent nation extending from Vladivostock to Omsk, with the capital at Irkutsk. BOLSHEVIKS DEFIED. WAR DECLARED AGAINST UKRAINE Received Dec. 20, 9.45 p.m. Petrograd, Dec. If). The Rada has defied the Bolshevik Government and the latter has declared war against Ukraine. CiVIL WAR SPREADING. AN EXTRAORDINARY SITUATION. Reifter Service. Received Dec. 20, 7.45 p.m. Petrograd, Dec. 19. Ciyil war is spreading northward along the Volga from Astrakan to Samara. The Maximalists occupy Astrakan, while the Cossacks are twenty versts distant. An extraordinary situation exists at Baritsio, where neither the Cossacks nor the Maximalists have the mastery, both brng beaten by the lliodoriuitea.

EXTREMISTS' EASY TRIUMPH XO APPROBATION OF MASSES. A DARK OUTLOOK. Received Bee. 20, 7.45 p.m. Petrograd, Dec. 11 Maxim Gorky, on being interviewed, said that Trotsky and Lenin bad an easy triumph, but their success was not indicative of the approhatian of the masses. Thay would he swept away in the first popular movement of discontent and the country plunged into anarchy.