Bolsheviks to Meet Constituent Assembly.
,-. Australian.aud N Z Cable- Assoc, . K*?c Jan 20, -5 5 p tv London, JiUi -li) The- Daily C!hroniclo*a Pcfcrograd correspondent sap: "The Bolsheviks have made preparations for meeting tue Constituent Assembly. bailors have act? up machine guns at lie Taurida - Palace. The cruiser Aurora aud several destroyers have
Ij-'-m brought from Kronstadt and now guard the city, which is in a state of feverish strain. The Bolsheviks will confront the Assembly with an ultimatum that the supreme power belongs to the Soviets, and that the aaiionaiisation of land and labour control already enacted by the Bolsheviks mugt be confirmed. If the Social Revolutionaries will not accept the programme in toto a struggle foi power will commence. Personally I do not believe tha change will make any difference. The new regime wonld have less terror, but it is impossible to obliterate the effects of the Bolsl evik's regime. Some scandals'would be removed, but the overthrow of the Bolsheviks by violence would ouly give occasion for intensifying a regime of terror At present the masses are wavering : Now they arc for the. Bolsheviks and now against them. If starvation comes the masses will rend the Government."
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 6965, 21 January 1918, Page 3
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