RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 December 1917, Page 5

RUSSIA.

ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL RELATIONS. POSTAL SERVICES FULLY RESTORED. Received Dec. 20 ; 8.5 p.m. Berne, Dec. "2>An additional clause of tlie KussoGerman armistice allows Austro-German delegations to go to Petrograd in order to re-establish economic and cultural relating. It is reported that the Euaso-Gerraan postal communications have teen fuliy restored. BOLSHEVIKS' PEACE VAPORINGS. THE GERMANS' SILENCE.' Times Service. Received Dec. '2O, 8.5 p.m. Petrograd, Dec. 25. The Bolsheviks at Brest Litov-k expounded the principles of their terms at great length, especially the meaning of annexation as an acquisition against the will of the inhabitants, no matter how. expressed. Russia considers it a crime against humanity to prolong the w.ir to enable wealthy nations to victimise the weak. The Germans were apparently sil°nt. Dr. Kuehlmann secured an adjournment in order to prepare a reply. GERMANY'S SCHEME. TAKING CHARGE OF RUSSIA Received Dec. 26, 8.5 p.m. Stockholm, Dec. 2Z. It is persistently reported that, in new of the precarioiisness of the Bolsheviks' authority, Gartaaiy hopes at the earliest opportunity to thrust out the leaders and substitute a Germanised monarchy, s or establish direct northern control, including Petrograd. Then, after the war, and after economic penetration, to seek to enforce authority at Odessa. ANTICIPATING PEACE. MANUFACTURING OF ARMS PROHIBITED. Received Dec. 26, 5.5 p.m. Reuter Service. Petrograd, Dec. 24. Maximalists and Social Revolutionaries of the Left have agreed to form a coalition government, wherein the latter will have seven seats. The Maximalists have .prohibited fcbe manufacture of arms, with a view to the probability of a speedy European peace. It transpires that the Maximalist peace conditions, already mentioned, include a demand for the speedy evacuation of tihe occupied territories. The Maximalist mews agency states that the Maximalist delegation "at Brest tatovsk have written the German Foreign Office declaring that peace negotiations may bo endangered if the German minority Socialists are not allowed to go to Stockholm to meet the Russian Socialists. The 'Maximalists claim that six thousand Korniloff followers were completely beaten in the neighborhood of Kharkoff. FINLAND IGNORES BOL. SHEVIKS. ASKS GERMANY TO RECOGNISE I'NDEPENDBNOE. Received Dec. 26, 11 p.m. Lcndon, Dec. 26. The Daily Mail's Petrograd correspondent reports that Finland is ignoring the Bolsheviks, and has asked the Germans at Brest Litovsk to recognise her independence. TO ATTACK UKRAINE. GERMANS MAKiafG PREPARATIONS. Received Dec. 28, H pjn. tendon, Dec- 26. The Germans are removiflg troops rrtun Riga soutVwest, in readiness to attack Ukraine. CHINESE AT HARBIN. RUSSIA ASKS FOR WITHDRAWAL. I R«uter Service. Received Dec. 2fi, 8.5 p.m. . Pekin, (Dec. 25. Owing to the arrival of Chinese troops order has been restored at Harbin. Petrograd, Dec. 26. Trotsky has instructed t/He commander of the Russian troops at HkrUs to request the withdrawal of foreign troops. ITALIAN EMBASSY ATT*CK€D. SECRETARY'S HOUSE SACKED. Received Deq. -2S, 7 pja. Petrograd, Dec. 2fi. Drunken sailors sacked the residence of the (fret secretary of the Italian Embasy and hayonetted two servants. LENIN PBEPASRBNG FOR BLIGHT. United Ptess. Received Dec. 2(5; 7 p.m. London, Sec. 25. The 'United Press correspondent at Stockholm reports that Lenin is preparing to tee from Petrograd.