NO CHANGE IN RUSSIA S ROLE LIKELY.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 13, 15 January 1918, Page 5

NO CHANGE IN RUSSIA S ROLE LIKELY.

BRITISH AMBASSADOR SUMS UP POSITION. (Received 8.35 a.m.) LONDON, January I*. The "Daily Chronicle's" Stockholm correspondent interviewed Sir Gco. Buchanan, British Ambassador to Russia, who said that the Bolsheviks have attained such a position that at present nobody can overthrow them. Their trump cards are peace and general war weariness. They will remain in power until the people learn tliat they cannot realize their promises. The Bolsheviks cannot be regarded as representatives o£ the whole of Russia. South Russia is going its own way. The Bolsheviks have now summoned a Constituent Assembly, but Sir George's opinion is that the Soviets (Council of Workmen and Soldiers' Delegates) are still the real holders of power. 16 is impossible to foretell the results of the Brest Lito'vsk negotiations. M. Trotzky seems to be trying to establish separate peace, but is also carrying on propaganda in the German eastern armies. Thi3 propaganda has had some results.

Kaledin, K.ererisky and Korniloff ar« awaiting the chance to bring about order in Russia, but no change can be expected in the country's external politics in the near future. Russia has finished her role ac an active power in this war.—(A. and X.Z. Cable.)