A BOLSHEVIK PARADE.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 January 1918, Page 5

A BOLSHEVIK PARADE.

SIBERIA AND CKRAINE REFUSE TO SEND CORN, MOKE COMMUNISTIC DECKELS. Received Jan. 1, 11.SO p.m. Petrograd, Bee. 31. Several hundred thousand. Bolshevik supporters, including troops, sailors, workmen and women, marched in profession through the streets. It was essentially a Bolshevik parade before the German guests, and a demonstration against fhe Constituent Assembly. TV peasants of Siberia and Vjkraino have refused to send corn to Petrograd. The commissaries have decided to abolish military rank, including that of noncoms. Tho decree removes all distinctions of uniform:, closes officers' clubs, and levels their pensions to that of the soldiers. BOLSHEVIKS DEFEATED. ON SOUTH-WEST FRONT. Received Jan. 1, 11.30 p.m. Copenhagen, Dec. 31. Advices from Haparanda state that the Ukrainian Cossacks heavily defeated the Bolsheviks on the south-western iront, taking 400 nrisoners and capturing eight heavy guns and 3-28 machine-guns. The Bolsheviks retreated in disorder. DRASTIC MEASURES PROBABLE. BY JAPAN AND CHINA. TO COUNTERACT MAXIMALIST INFLUENCES. Received Jan. 1, 11.30 p.m. Tientsin, Dec. 01. An impression is growing that the Japanese will be forced to ']-;atic measures in eastern Siberia, in the event of Maximalist influences continuing to spread eastward. It is expected that China will undertake the protection of the entire northern Manehurian zones. FURTHER MURDERS. FRENCH CONSUL AND A RUSSIAN GENERAL. Received Dec. 31, 11 p.m. Pekin, Dec. 30. The Red CTSards, in the course of the fighting at Irkutsk, murdgred the French consular agent and two other Frenchmen. The town is afire, and the population is starving. Petrograd, Dec. 30. General Karanloff, who was liftman of the Terek Cossacks, his brother, and his whole staff officers and men, were murdered by soldiers from the Caucasian front. AUTONOMY FOR TURKESTAN. GENERAL KALEDIN FLECTE'D HETMAN. [ Times Service. Received Dec. 31, 11 p.m. Petrograd, Dec. 30. Turkestan has formed an autonomous Government. TShe Coasasks re-elected General Kaledin as hetman. Robbers brutally murdered General Goremykin, his wife, and 1)75 forother-in-law, at his country estate in the Caucasus. FOODSTUFFS FROM RUSSIA. | GERMANY HAS LITTLE TO HOPE FOR Received Dec. 31, S p.m. Berne, Dec. 30. The secretary of the German War Provisioning Bureau, interviewed, admitted it was impossible for Germany to hope to get an appreciable quantity of foodstuffs from Russia. RELEASE OF AUSTRIAN MERCHANTMEN. Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc. and Reuter. Received Jan. 1, 8.25 p.m. Copenli&gen, Dec. 31. Fourteen Austrian merchantmen, totalling 40,f100 tons, hav« 'been released from Russian ports. FINLAND AND RUSSIA." Stockholm, Dec. 30. Official: King Gustav cordially received the Finnish delegation and expressed inability to act until the relations between Finland and Russia were clear. RUSSIA NODS PROTECTION FRO'VI GERMAN'S. London, Dec. 30. TJk l Petrograd correspondent of the Djy£y Chronicle says that the German X-rms mean the restoration of the status /quo, coupled with the Berlin-Bagdad scheme and a practical victory for Germany, but the Allies cannot abandon Russia and leave her to conclude a separate humiliating peace and become Germany's slave. It would be a short-sight-ed policy. Even now we have a greafT opportunity in Russia and enormous issues are at stake. Sober judgment must not be obscured, bv passion and prejudice. CHINA AND JAPAN READY TO ACT. Washington. Dec. 30. Jokio advices state that Chinese and Japanese troops are prepaxing for possible action in th* Far East. The occupation of portions 0 f Siberia may be accessary. A huge Qiwese army is at ready m Mawlmria and Japanese transports are heldon readiness to assist.