Opening of Constituent Assembly.
Uec Jan 21, 9 25 a in Petrograd, Jau 20 Admiralty—Per Wireless Press
An official statement says Comrade Sverdlaw opened the Constitutent Assembly on Friday. There were popular manifestations in the streets, bat the soldiers, sailors and workmen did not participate though they assisted the ".-Rod Guards to order. Comrade CheriioiT was elected president; ■'■-■■'•.■...■ .Comrade.S^ercJlaw, iv the iiaaiß of the Council of Soldiers', Workmen's and Peasants 1 Deputies, submitted a ..r.e«f»?Bfc that the Council's authority
be recognised ; also, that ail decrees issued by the Council of people's Commissaries be recognised, peuding a clear definition of the relations between the Assembly and the Council. Subsequent!y r the Bolsheviks and the left t wing fof the Socialist Revolutionaries withdrew.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 6965, 21 January 1918, Page 3
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