RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 January 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

NEW REVOLUTION. KEREN SKY ATTACKS BOLSHEVIKS. SEVERE STREET FIGHTING. Received Jan. 25, 5.5 p.m. Petrograd, Jan. 24. l't is reported that Kerensky, Silononko, and Ilairnkoff have arrived in Petrograd. heading a conspiracy against the Bolshevik Government. Severe atreet fighting ia proceeding, warships in the Neva participating. COUNTER-REVOLUTIONISTS UNITED. TO FIGHT BOLSHEVIKS. Petrograd, .Tan. 24. The Committee of Public Safety in A manifesto states that the counter-revo-lutionaries have united with the object of fighting the Bolshevik Government. GERMAN PEACE TERMS. FINALLY REJECTED BY RUSSIA. Received Jan. 25, 5.5 p.m. New YorTc, Jan. 24. The Russians have finally rejected the German peace terms. Petrograd, Jah. 24. One of the murderers of Shingareff and Kokoshkin has been arrested FINLAND ON THE VERGE OF FAMINE. REIGN OF TERROR PREVAILS. London, .Tan. 24. Kihlman, formerly Attorney-General of Finland, is visiting England in connection with the rcliet fund. Interviewed, he said that Finland was on the verge of famine. Two-fifths of the population were unable to obtain bread of ;' v description. The food supplies available include some millions of kilogrammes of Iceland moss, which has been declaieA unfit for human consumption, and a small quantity of grain, but altogether only what what is necessary to sustain life. The inlanders ate threatened with destruction unless speedy help is available. The illicit supply of weapons to the lowest elements in the eottununity enables them to rob and plunder, and this aggravates the situation. Stockholm, Jan. 24. Frontier messages state that a reign of terror prevails in the Finnish towns. A sanguinary encounter occurred on Monday at . W between Finlanders and Russi-r ro'..'!e».j. The latter, armed with machine-guns and rifles, attacked the town hall and arrested the mayor and police commandant. The Finlanders disarmed the Russians and forced the Russian reinforcements to retire.' Serious excesses followed. Two hundred Rod Guards at Wibotg barricaded thi> streets, stormed the factories and killed and wounded many people. Red Guards and Socialists occupied the Government . buildings at HelsingTors, and arrested several members of the Government and all officials TROTSKY'S FIGHT FOR DEMOCRATIC TERMS. New York, Jan. 24. The Now York World's Pefrograd correspondent says that, while Trotsky is making an unflinching fight for democratic peace terms, he may fail if the Allies refuse aid. Russia will be unable to continue a defiance of Gertnany unless she receives material assistance. , (