UKRAINIAN REGIMENTS.
DISARMED BY THE BOLSHEVIKS. MORE TROUBLE BREWING IN PETROGRAD.. Received Jan. 15,11.45 p.m. Petrograd, Jan. 14. A despatch from Kharkoff states that Maximalists disarmed the Second Ukrainian Regiment. After surrounding the barracks, armored cars, with machineguns, opened fire, whereupon the Ukrainians surrendered, with seven thousand rifles and thirteen machine guns. A correspondent forecasts a recrudescence of the internecine strife in the capital, owing to the belief that the Bolsheviks intend to declare the forthcoming congress of the Soviets as a national convention in lieu of the Constituent As A significant fact is that two cruisers and destroyers have arrived, for which an ice channel has been specially broken. The Social Revolutionaries and the committee of the first All-Russia? Soviets are urging the citizens and the army to organise and defend the Constituent Assembly by force.
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 January 1918, Page 5
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137UKRAINIAN REGIMENTS. Taranaki Daily News, 16 January 1918, Page 5
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