RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 January 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

MURDERED CADET LEADERS. i'UREE AI!RE*TS MADE. Received Jim. 2<i, .")..") p.m. Petrograd, Jan. 2/i, A soldier named rluskoll' and two sailors, Rnsiiii' and Koulikovsky. liave been arrested in connection vvilli the murdei'B of MM. ShingarefT and Kokoshkin. The Polish regiments are disobeying the democratization order lor the election of commanders. General Krylenko lias arrested the executive of the Polish military committee at Minsk. DISTURBANCES EXPECTED. BOURGEOISIE TO BE CRUSHED. nrumxfl ix Finland. Received Jan. 27, j.o p.m. -Stockholm, Jan. 2C. Many trains full of soldiers from Finland are going to Petrograd. The Bolsheviks are concentrating troops, expecting disturbances -as the result of the recent brutal murders. The of the Bolshevik Chancellor's office told the Workmen's and Soldiers' Council that a great massacre was impending, wherein the working classes would definitely and , forever crush the bourgeoisie. There is considerable fighting in Finland between the Red Guards and the Finnish White Guards. Bloodshed occurred at Viborg, Kuclmva, and Oosterliott. The Red Guards' excesses continue [ nt Helsingfors and other towns. KRYLENKO'S RUTHLESSNESS TO EXTERMINATE BOURGEOISIE. Received Jan. 27, ~>S> p.m. Petrograd, Jan. 2fi. General Krylenko, addressing the Red Guards, Vnid that all liberties must be. s-et aside "During the struggle with the bourgeoisie we shall shrink at nothing, not even at spreading wholesale terror. Woe io all attempting to cross our path! We will not stop until we have exterminated all our enemies."

BOLSHEVIKS TOTTERING. BUXD, SICXiSFXKSS ANARCHY. Received Jan. 27, 3.5 p.m. •' London, Jan. 28. The Daily Chronicle's Petrograd correspondent reports that V,li« Bolsheviks are tottering amid the ruin that they helped to create. Blind, senseless anarchy threatens to overwhelm all parties. Anarchical insubordination is prevalent among the armed masses, particularly among the sailors and the Red Ouards, hut the working classes are exhibiting a strong revulsion of feeling against the Bolsheviks and are holding meetings in factories. They have passed resolutions expressing no confidence in the Bolsheviks, deciding to recall tlieii representatives from the Soviet, and demanding the disbanding of the Red Guuvd. There were serious disturbances at Moscow, whore two revolver.shots fired at an armed Bolshevik procession caused !i panic, the Bolsheviks firing wildly and killing and wounding many women and children.

THE MOSCOW DISTURBANCES 2+o CASUALTIES. Received Jan. 27, 3.5 p.m. Petrograd, Jan. 2fi. Forty were killed and two hundred wounded during the Moscow, dist *i>, ances. * j SOVIETS DEPUTIES CONCRESS. TROTSKY RELIES ON PROM; fARIAT. Times Service. Received Jan. 27, 5.5 p.m. • Petrograd, Jan. 26. The" Soviet Deputies' Congress wag opened with dramatic enthusiasm and with every sign of popular approval and sonfidence. M. Trotsky expressed his unfailing belief in tho coming assistance of the western proletariat. PEACE NEGOTIATIONS SUSPENDED. Copenhagen, Jan. 25. The Brest Litnvsk negotiations have been suspended, nml will be resumed on January 29. AN EMBARRASSING SITUATION. Received Jan. 20, 5.5 p.m. tf Amsterdam, Jan. -25. A Berlin telegram indicates that an embarrassing situation has arisen at Brest Litovsk. A second Ukrainian delegation has arrived, and denies that the previous delegation wa s entitled to negotiate on behalf of the Ukraine republic, whose real government lias been established at CJiarkoff, and professes Maximalist principles. The second delegation comes from Charkoff and supports' Trotsky, THREAT TO OCCUPY REVAL. Petrograd, Jan. 25. ITerr Hoffmann brutally expressed Germany's terms of peace at Brest Litovsk, stating that Germany's future eastern frontier must lie from Riga, through Valk, iDvinalc and Brest A Russian delegate asked what would happen if Russia refused, and Hoffman replied that Reval would be occupied within a week. Herr Hoffman added that the southern boundaries would bo arranged between 'Germany and Ukraine, it appears Germany promised Ukraine liberal boundaries at the expense of Russia, peace being conditional on Ukraine supplying breadstuff* to Germany. SOVIETS TO BEAR RESPONSIBILITY, United Service. Received Jan. 27, 5.fl p.m. London, Jan. 27. The Daily Mail's Petrograd correspondent reports tlmt the Bolshevik Government will refuse the German peace conditions, placing the responsibility on the Soviets' Coneresa. ,

HOOLIGANISM IN FINLAND. .'* SENATE'S ULTIMATUM TO RUSSIA, Reuler Serviet. •I'eceived Jan. 27, 5.5 p.m. Helsingfors, Jan. 29. The British Consul has protested to (lie Senate against acts of violence and robberies perpetrated against Britisher* in Einland, The Senate has sent an ultimatum to the Russian Government to cease supplying arms to Finnish hooligans, who are committing excesses, assisted by Russian soldiery; otherwise u state of war will be proclaimed immediately. STATEMENT BY LEMN. PEACE CONFERENCE RESL'LTLESS Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc, and Renter Received Jan. 27, 5.5 pjß. Rone, Jan. 2(). The Secolo's Petrograd correspondon; telegraphs that Lenin has informed hi? friends that the Brest-Litovsk negotiations have been virtually broken off, without any results having been achieved uudSACKS IN CONGRESS. WAR AGAINST KALEDIN. SO AS TO DESTROY BOURGEOIS!? Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc, and Reutei Received Jan. 27, s.f> p.m. London, Jan. 2C. A wireless Russian report states that a congress of Cossacks from the front 'was inaugurated at Kamensky on January 23. Twenty-three regiments and five batteries were represented, as were also all the participants in the Voronez conference of laboring Cossackdom. General Kaledin ordered the dispersal of the congress and the arrest of the organisers. , The congress unanimously passed a resolution to make war on General Kaledin, relegating to itself all authority oa the Don, and sent detachments for the purpose of capturing Likhaia and Zvevero. They arrested eighteen superior, officers. The Cossacks are iired with, enthusiasm. They are striving to end-Gen-eral Kaledin, with the assistance of the iirmy and of the workmen's and peasants' governments, with the object of destroying the borgeoise of Russia on the Don, leading to the victory of the great revolution.

BOLSHEVIK ACTIVITIES. Received Jan. 27, 11.55 p.m. Petrograd, Jan. 2?. It is reported that Austria has de« clared her readincsr. to conclude peace without Germany, and to accept a, democratic programme, except as to the self determination of th* nattan*. The Bolsheviks are contemplating a formal declaration of wnr against the Ukrainians. It is also reported that the Bolshevik troops have surrounded Rieff. HOSTILITIES AGAINST BOLSHEVIKS. Copenhagen, Jan. 25. | HapuraixH messages state that three (iuards regiments have joined the side oi the Constituent Asscmhlvites and opened hostilities against the Bolshevi'ks. The Red (iuards surrounded'the Social Revolutionaries' headquarters and arrestee' fifty members of the military organisation formed for the defence of tbr .Constituent Assembly.