BOLSHEVIKS MUZZLE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 300, 17 December 1917, Page 5

BOLSHEVIKS MUZZLE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY

(Received 8.4.5 a.m.) LONDON, December la lhe "Daily ChronicleV Petrograd correspondent reports that twenty Social Revolutionary delegates, finding that soldiers prohibited their entrance to the debating chamber of the Constituent Assembly, held a meeting in the library An officer ordered them out, declaring all meetings illegal till the Assembly was allowed to meet. When the delegates refused to go soldiers armed with bayonets and cutlaaeea removed them. The Bolsheviks have concentrated eight thousand troops in the vicinity of Taurida Palace. BERNE, December Iβ. The ">>eue Freie Presse" and "Reihspost" state that the Central Empires will lm po ß e such peace conditions on Serbia and Rumania that both will henceforth be economically dependent on Germany and Austria—(A. and JH-Z. Cable.) BOLSHEVIKS CONFISCATE ALL CAPITAL AND SAVINGS. (Received 9.5 a.m.) PETROGRAD, December 10. Red Guards seized the Taurida Palace, preventing deputies and officials entering. The Bolsheviks have decreed the abolition of all military titles and decorations, the confiscation of savings in banks and private capital the diseetabl shment of the Church, and the abolition of the' Holy Synod..-(A and N.Z. Cable.) *