RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 February 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

BOLSHEVIKS CAPITULATE. GERMAN PEACK TERMS ACCEDED TO Received Fob. 20, 11, p.m. London, Feb. 1!). Wireless Russian official: Lenin and Trotsky have sent a message to the German Government, protesting a;;ainst the German invasion white the Russian army is demobilising The council of the people's commissaries are now forced to f(.finally declare their willingness to sign peace upon the conditions dictated by the quadruple alliance at- Brest Litovsk. A detailed reply to these conditions will be given without delay. THE BALTIC FLEET. LEAVES HEIASNGFORS. Received Feb. 20, 5.3 p.m. ' Copenhagen, Fob, 1UThe Russian Baltic fleet, which was ice-bound at Helsingt'ors, has now partedunspeakable chaos. UNBRIDLED LICENSE OF HORDES OF CUT-THROATS. Received Feb. 20, sio p.m. Times Service. London, Feb. ifl. Delayed messages from Petrograd re " fleet unspeakable chaos, owing to unbridled license ot hordes of Red Guards. There are wholesale robberies and confiscations- Owners of more than three horses or four sheep or two pigs are heavily taxed. The Soviets and Peasants' Committes get 25 per cent- of the proceeds. A perfect saturnalia of murder. outrage and robbery continues. As a result of the simplification of divorce proceedings there were 00,000 applications for divorce in three months. The liolsheviks are despatching numerous Cossack battalions to the Don to assist the workers against Geenral KaledinBBOLSHEVIK socialism. WHAT IT -MEAN'S. Received 'Feb 20, 9.35 p.m. London, Feb. 19The Daily Chronicle's Moscow correspondent states the Bolshevik regime i# milder there. The trace of starvation is less imminent. It is a city of refuge for tho mtelligongia. Many officers are selling newspapers in tije streets. Others are unloading trucks and sweeping crossings: The proletariat are not faring much better. Factories are gradually closing- Unemployment is increasing, owing to the want of raw materials. Men in soldiers' uniforms are making great profits by selling food at excessive prices after securing the revolutionary committee's authority to confiscate peasants' goods, the peasants -being floggsd if they fait to give.the goods. The intelligensia are not seeking palliatives, being convinced that the masses must learn by bitter experience what the Bolsheviks' socialism really mean*.

RECRUITING STIMULATED.

GERMAN PEACE TERMS CLAIM. Received February 20, 5.5 p.m. . Petrograd, Fob. 19. The Foreign Office lias announced that as the result of the German invasion recruiting has been enormously stimulated. Trotsky made a statement that Germany's peace terms, which Russia refused, included the retention of Poland, Lithuania, Riga and Moon Island, also the payment of four billion dollars for an indemnity.

CONFISCATION OF MONEY,

EXCEPT LABOR-EARNED-Petrograd, Feb. 19. An official decree has been issued annulling all loans except in the case of Russians holding Government bonds under 10,000 roubles who can exchange tliein for certificates in the new loan of the Russian Socialistic Federal Republic. BOLSHEVIKS ARREST UKRAINIANS. Petrograd, Feb. 1!). The Bolsheviks arrested all members of the Ukrainian Central Rada and the Ukrainiaan delegation at Brest Litovsk, including the president, charging them with high treason. The Bolsheviks refuse to recognise the.peace concluded by the Rada. DVI'NSK EASILY TAKEN. A. and N.Z Cable Assn. and lleuter Received Feb. 20. 11 n.ni. London, Feb. 19. Wirol»ss'German official. Wc occupied Dvinsk with small enemy resistance. A Russian attempt to blow up the Dvinn bridj# was unsuccessfulNO RESISTANCE AT LUTSK. Received Feb. '2O, 11 p.m. London, Feb. 19. Wireless Austrian official: We occupied Lutsk unopposed. REPORT OF SUICIDE OE GENERAL KALEDIN. Received Feib 20, S p.m. Petrograd, Feb. 19. It is reported that General Kaledin I'.as committed suicide. >