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RUSSIA.

BUTCHERY AT SEBASTOPOL BOLSHEVIKS MURDER THEIR OFFICERS. FOUR ADMIRALS AND A GENERAL. KILLED. MURDERED OFFICERS NUMBER HUNDREDS Time? Service. Received Jan. 14, 8.50 p.m. Odessa. Jan. 1.1. The horrors of Kronstadt have been re-enacted at Sebastopol by two days' butchery of naval officers by Bolshevik tailors. At least sixty were killed, including four admirals and a general. Most of those killed were members of the committee of inquiry in 1912, under the Czar's regime, into the rebellious sailors' revolutionary union, when seventeen .">f those convicted were sentenced to execution and many of the others to exile. The murdered admirals and captains • ivcrc experienced warriors, in whom the fir.et expressed well-merited confidence. All the officers on one ship were taken to the famous Malakoff tower and shot. The population of Sebastopol is nervous and excited. Many of the reports state that the murdered officers number hundreds. Street fighting is proceeding at Nikolioff. Twenty Herman commercials have arrived at Kieff and are doing business.

THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY RED 3UARDS AND SENATE AT LOGGERHEADS. Received Jan. 14, 8.50 p.m. Copenhagen, Jan. 13. Telegrams from Finland describe the situation as dangerous. The Red Guards refuse to obey the Senate, and there is every indication of a revolution being prepared. T>e Diet is getting measures ready against the Red Guards.

A DANGEROUS SITUATION. THE BOLSHEVIKS' EITTLE SCHEME. POSITION IMPROVING IN 1 PETROGRAD. Received Jan. W, 8.30 p.m. London, Jan. 13. The Daily Chronicle's Petrograd correspondent reports that the Bolsheviks intend the Constituent Assembly shall sit only for a few days to ratify Lenin's decrees and hand over the sovereign power to the Soviets and then dissolve. If it refuses it will be ©ompulsorily dissolved for good. The situation in Petrograd is slowly improving. Siberia is despatching 200 trucks of corn daily, also southern Russia has partially resumed despatching foodstuffs, which had stopped since the revolution.

j THE LABORING CLASSES. DEPUTIES MUST EXPRESS THEIR VIEWS. Rpoeivea Jan. 14, 8.50 p.m. ■ ' London, Jan. 13. A wireless Russian message states that the central executive of the Council of Workmen's, Soldiers', and Peasants' De-: pnties has issued a decree giving the local councirs power to recall members; of the Constituent Assembly in all cases where they do not express the views of the lahoring masses. An All Ukrainian Sea Congress has been summoned to meet at Kieff on January 23 to discuss questions relating to the Ukrainian Constituent Assembly, and to report as to the Black Sea Xnvy to Ukrainia. The reorganisation of the navy is to be volontary, on the same basis as the organisation of trade unions

TERRITORIAL QUESTIONS. SPECIAL COMMISSION FORMED. Received Jan. 14, &50 pjn. Ziiriih, Jan. 13. The Russian and German delegates at Bre9t Litovsk formed a special commission to negotiate on territorial questions »nd a future commercial treaty.

THE EMBBASSY IN LONDON. SEIH-OFFIC3AL RECOGNITION. London, Jan. 18. M. L'rtvinoff is conducting business as' Russian plenipotentiary from his home at a small maisonette in West HampS*wd, assarted *y b» wife. 'Hus is .probably the amailcst enAasey in Watery. "Although not recognising tlie Uojdhevik Government the 61114611 Eoreign' Officehas eatjjMrahfld 1 semi-official relations.

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Taranaki Daily News, 15 January 1918, Page 5

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Tapeke kupu
519

RUSSIA. Taranaki Daily News, 15 January 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA. Taranaki Daily News, 15 January 1918, Page 5

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