RUSSIA
• MUZZLING THE PRESS. LENIN A^D TROTSKY DISOBEYED. \ustralian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Rec. November 2^. 2.25 p.m.) PETROGRAD, Novejmber 22. Tbe Soviets. Executive, alter hearin rv Lenin and Tratsky, declined to suppress the bourg-eois newspapers aud confiscate the presses. RUSSIA'S COMPLETE BACKDOWN.. PEACE POURPARLERS URGED. DUKHONIUN~DEPOSED. (Rec. November 23, 8.50 p.m.) LONDON, November 22. AVireless, Russian official ; The Cotrrieil of .the, Peoples Commissaries, in, tlie. name .of the Soviet of the Russian: '. Kepiiblic, has deposed Dukhoniun owing to his refusal to offer an armistice, -and. appointed Krylenko Commander-in-Chief .
The Council urg-e^s the soldiers to arrest counter revolutionary generals and preventing .lynch Jaw, which action is declared to be ' un w&nliy of the Revolutionary Army. I'he Council has invited: the refiriments at the front 10 elect Plenipotentiaries immediately to begin peace pourparlers with the egaemy. -<
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Grey River Argus, 24 November 1917, Page 3
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