ANOTHER COMMITTEE FORMED.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 March 1918, Page 5

ANOTHER COMMITTEE FORMED.

ANATHEMA AGAINST BOLSHEVIKS.

Received March 13,10.15 p.m. Petrograd, March 12.

In consequence of the departure of the eemmissaries to Moscow, a military revolutionary committee has been formed, with Trotsky as president.

An anathema against the Bolsheviks fu read in all the churches.

WIDESPREAD GLOOM. . FLIGHT PROM PETROGRAD. X#mdon, March 12. The Daily Chronicle's Petrojrrad correspondent states that the Ministries have nearly all gone; to Moscow and the

population is flocking from the capital. i Queues of thousands are waiting for per. mits to leave. Overcrowded trains are departing all day long. Others are sledges and many are trudsine throu?!) the snow- The trams are running with difficulty owing to the coal shortage, factories are closing, and cabs , disappearing. Most of the owners have sold their hfrses for meat. Underfed horses are dying In the streets daily. Motors and lorries are commandeered for the excavation.. There is no panic and no excitement, widespread gloom ha.ving taken their place. Meanwhile Petrograd knows little of the outside world and even Russian news is hard to get. ' . Rotterdam, March 12. The Cermans are within nine miles of .Odeiaa.

PEACE TREATY CANAL. Copenhagen, March 12. , The proposed RusßO-German commercial treaty plans the construction of a (Treat canal (Connecting the Baltic with the Black Sea. German financiers will contribute a million sterling to the cost.

'COSSACKS FORCED TO RETIRE.

Peking,' March 12.

Harbin reports that General Semonov, the Cossack leader, has been obliged to retire, and has taken up a position near a Manchurian station The Chinese commander has warned the Bolsheviks that the invasion of Chinese territory will be regarded as an act of war, declaring that Semonov's force represents the Russian Provisional Government which is recognised. ~ , , Cossacks arrested the Bolshevik leaders at Blagovyeshcheusk and disarmed the forces.

BOLSHEVIKS BECOME COMMUNISTS. London, March 12.

Tie Bolsheviks have decided to adopt the title of the Russian Communistic Party, and to cvtond their policy on an international basis.

A TRAGIC END.

RUSSIAN FLEET ABANDONED. London, March 12. The Soviet has received a tragic and significant description of the abandoned fleet at Helsingfors. The crews melted awav, and only one watch on each ?hip was "left. The dreadnoughts were going to Kronstadt, and the other vessels were left to the care of Finland, which is practicallv in German hands. The Aurora and Diana (20-knot cruisers ouilt m 1902) were dismantled, and the sailors looted the movables.