RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 December 1917, Page 5

RUSSIA.

U;U. WAR EXTENDING, UKRAIXI AX MOP.I LIGATION. VARYING- FORTUNE OF BOLSHEVIKS COSSACKS uX TIIK MuVE. Time* Service Received Dec. S-\. .)..", p.m. London, I:.■■■. 21. Mr. Boiuvhier slaL-s tlint the civil war hum ill south Russia U extending. The lUda, after rejecting tin- ultimatum, ordered the total mobilisation or forces, and it is now slated these will join General Tcherbatcheff's Ilussimis from the Roumanian front, who arc concentrating between Gomel and Bakhwach, while Ih.i Bolsheviks are massing tit Miena station. The railway trucks have been torn up ill many places Fighting near Volochisk resulted in the defeat of' the Bolsheviks. 'Or, the other hand the Bolsheviks were victorious near Proskuroff and occupied the town. Tile Radii forces control Odessa, which is now governed from Kiel!'. General Dutrolf has mobilised all the Ural Cossacks, who have been despatched against Cheliabinsk. A large force of Khirgiz, Kalmuk,_and Bashkir Cossacks is advancing towards Ufa, BOLSHEVIK REGIME SHAKING. THE POOR FURIOUS AGAIXST LENIN ROUMANIANS JOINING UKRAINIANS UKRAINIAN DEMANDS DISORDERS AT PETROGRAI RELEASE OF OZAR. Received Dec. 2.1, .">.,") p.m. Copenhagen, Dec. 22. Private messages from Finland indi-) cate that tho Bolshevik regime is shirking, and that several of the leaders have left Petrograd. Lenin has arrested a number of the leaders of the Socialist revolutionaries, including Savinkoff, in addition to ti large uumbsr of Cadets. They have all been imprisoned in the fortress of St. Peter and St. Pa.nl. Lenin has not yet been able to find Miliukoff. The chief difficulty is food. The poor are furious at Lenin's failure to feed the city. Messages add that a new revolution may 'lie expected hourly, A Petrograd telegram states that the Ukraine Assembly, having rejected tho Bolshevik ultimatum, is assembling and mobilising the' Ukrainian Cossacks. The Roumanians are joining the Ukrainians. General Sherbotskeff has been Appointed the commander-in-chief of the whole Ukrainian forces, which are within three vei-sts of flie'Bolshevik, army. The Ukrainians demand recognition of the Ukraine republic, Ukrainian management of the south-western Roumanian fronts, and one-third of the seats in the Federal Government Assembly. The message adds that no .foorj is allowed to be transported before payment lias been made by the Petrograd Government, whereof one-third must be in gold and two-thirds in bank notes. The Bolshevik Commissaries replied that an agreement was possible If Ukraine refused to assist General Kaledin and the Cadets. The Morning Post's correspondent states that Petrograd is in a state of siege, due to rapidly increasing demoralisation and widespread drunkenness, the mob seeking every possible hiding place for intoxicating liquors. Even the soldiers sent to restore order join in the debauch. Dissensions among the soldiers of the, Red Guards are' increasing, the .soldiers demanding that the Red Guard shall receive ordinary soldiers' pay instead of «0 roubles daily.German and Austrian officers, prisoners of Avar, are often officering the Bolshevik forces, and it is reported that two army corps, composed of prisoners of War, under their own officers, are within striking distance of Petrograd. It is announced that Lenin is issuing a decree releasing the Czar and all other members of the Imperial family, in order that they may he «ble to go abroad in compliance with their requests. General -Kalediii obtained a signal victory over the Red Guards at Rostoff, the Cossacks, in their bloody vengeance, transfixing the Red Guards with°]aiiees and flinging them down. The Bolshevik leaders tried to escape to the Black Sea fleet, h-.it the Cossack artillery shelled the cruiser, which went ashore!

PEACE THE ONLY HOPE. FOR SAVING THE COUNTRY. GERMAN TROOPS TO KEEP ORDER. Australian Cable Association. Received Dee. 2:!, 5.5 p.m. Loudon, Dec 21. Mr. Phillip p r i C e, telegraphing from I'etrograd, states that Trotsky, in u speech, said that Russia intends to proceed with the negotiations, because peace is the only hope of saving the country from rum and starvation, but if Germany refuses our terms wn will fight and perish together. The Morning Post's Stockholm correspondent, telegraphing from Petrogrnd, states that German troops will shortly •imve m Petrograd, but only to restore order. THE PEACE PROPOSALS. AI'I'KOYiCI) UV (lEKMAX i;i-;ir;;sTA« Aus. and K.Z. Cable Assoc, and Renter. Received "Dec. -£l, 5.1,-) p.m. Amsterdam,' Dec. 21 The Chancellor explained to a eoniidentml meeting of representatives of all parties of (lie Reichstag the lines whereon Germany will conduct the ueace negotiations with Russia. Dr. Kuhlmann I will attend the peace conference. The meeting unanimously approved the pro-'-"hnmL