BOLSHEVIKS AND UKRAINIANS FIGHTING.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 6967, 25 January 1918, Page 3

BOLSHEVIKS AND UKRAINIANS FIGHTING.

Bolsheviks Claim Capture of Joltava. Reuters Telegrams. itec Jan 24, 8.10 p.m Pefcrograd, Jan 23

The Bolsheviks report that their troopa defeated the Ukrainians at Joltava, and captured The town.

Australian and N Z Gable Assoe Rec Jan 24, 8 TO p m

Mr Harold Williams, the war correspondent, in a despatch from Petrograd, says: "The dissolution decree justifies the Bolsheviks' action. Tha Assembly wbs to be a crown, bourgeois and parliamentary republic, but that proved an obstacle in the path of tbe October revolution. It ia not national, but only class institutions, like the Soviets, which are able to overcome the resistance of the propertied classes and lay tbe foundation, of Socialist order."

M. Lenin, spewing at a Socialist meeting, said: "Tbe Soviets arfi kindling the flames of revolution. I command all the people to fight the Soviets, who are breaking the pillars of the Bourgeois. Order w.ill not be achieved with gloved hands but in*- a proleterian way,' "

Mr Williams goes on; "It ia evident thtc Socialism will be introduced at th« bayonet's point. Tbe programme will not be executed without a struggle. The portion ia extremely critical.* 1 Australian and W Z. Cable Assoc. Bee Jan 24, 8 10 am Petrograd, Jan 23

The Secretary ot: the Russian Legation at Bret Litovsk baa officially protested against the German version of the proceedings, in which M. Trotsky's protest against Geimany'a change of front was not mentioned. General Hoffmann has warned the Russian Government that it they carry out the intention of giving German officer prisoners the eam«* regime aa men Germany will cancel the project Tor the reciprocal improvement of war 4 conditions in Germaay.