RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 February 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA.

CESSATION OF HOSTILITIES. SOVIET GOVERNMENT READY TO CONFER. ~y •*'" ?■* .Received Feb. 9, 5.15 p.m. London, Feb. 7. The Russian Soviet Government has accepted the Entente's offer to begin conversations with a view to the cessation of hostilities. It also agrees to pay Russia's debts.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Ascoc; A TRAVELLER'S TALES. LENIN AND HIS DOCILE ARMY. BOLSHEVIKS ANXIOUS TO COME TO TERMS. Received Feb. 9, 5.5 p.m. New York, Feb. 6. In nn interview an American traveller, who has recently arrived from Russia, said that Lenin ias whipped the Soviets into something resembling ordinary congresses. Lenin has a Red Army so disciplined that it will execute orders that nobody dared to give it a year ago. Lenin and Ms followers do not want the peasants to own land. The workers control the factories, but did not oppose the masses in their wishes, because wishes govern. Russia will establish her own principles of government by degrees. Tlie Bolshevik rulers arc anxious to reach an understanding with the Allies, but dare not say so without issuing defiant statements and revolutionary proclamations for the consumption of the masses in Russia—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc. REPUBLICS PROCLAIMED. AS PART OF FEDERAL REPUBLIC. Received Feb. 8, 5.5 p.m. Berne, Feb. 0. The Bolsheviks have proclaimed a communistic republic of Lithuania and White Ruthenia as a federal part of the Soviet republic.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.