BOLSHEVIK PEACE PLOT

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 52, 24 November 1917, Page 7

BOLSHEVIK PEACE PLOT

NOTE TO THE ALLIES

REVISION OF WAR AIMS

DEMANDED

THE OUTLOOK TO-DAY

Copenhagen, November 22.. | A message from Haparanda to the ' "Politiken" states that Trotsky haa ! sent the Allies a supplementary Note ; requesting a revision of their war aims. ; If replies' are not received by Noven> i her 23 Russia will consider hersetf \ justified in making a separate peaces \ Ans.-N.Z. Cable Assn. : \

A CHECK BY THE SOVIET

PRESS TYRANNY SOUGHT BY LENIN.

PotrOgrad, November 22. ' The Executive of the Soviet, after! hearing Lenin and Trotsky, declined to suppress tho bourgeois newspapers and confiscate the presses.—"The Times. , '

THE SITUATION REVIEWED

LENIN AND HIS FANTASTIC

v CRUSADE]

London, November 22. <■■ The "Daily Chronicle's" correspond* ' ent at Petrograd states that Lenin has i issued a proclamation to the Peasants i and Workers' Committees asserting ■ that the Government is now in bis hands. He has ordered local Peasants* > Councils to take over estates imrnedi* ' ately and hold them pending the preparation of a scheme of partition. ■ Tho correspondent denies that the! majority of tho people support the Bolsheviks. The Government is very weak, : and only controls the armed forces, • while all the Socialist and non-Socialist ' •parties, aud practically the whole of the people oppose it. A prominent 80l- : shevik is pessimietic. He believes the I Government .is doomed to fall. "It is absurd," adds the "Chronicle's" cor, respondent, "to regard Lenin as a mere ■■ German agent, _ but his fanaticism ia < such that lie will go to any length to x achiovQ his ends. He would gladly accept German money and officers fon the purpose of effecting a social revolui ' tion. Money for himself would notj ' tempt Lenin, whose only aim is tWfoft : ciblo establishment of Socialism." • '

Sinister Bolshevik Outrages.' Several Petrograd newspapers expose cruelties by the Bolsheviks, and affirm; that the released Austrian and German' prisoners assisted the Bolsheviks infighting against Kerensky'e troops. Al : commission which investigated thei' treatment of Oadets imprisoned in the fortress of Peter and Paul found that they did not receive food or. water fori forty hours. The bodies of twentj; Cadets, some of them decapitated, were found in the neighbouring canals. The commission was not permitted to visit the cells in which were the women's battalion, owing to the fact that the women had been subjected to evera possible cruelty.—Aus.-N.Z. Cabld Assn.

ANOTHER COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF DEPOSED FOR DECLINING TO OFFER AN ■ ' ARMISTICE. (Rec. November 23, 8.50 p.m.) London, November 22. " A Russian official report states i'nafi the Council of tlio People's Commissar- ~ ies, in tho name of the Government c£ the Russian Republic, lias deposed Genoral Buklionin (Commander-in-Chief), owing to his refnsal to offer an armistice, and has appointed Goneral Krylenko as Commandor-in-CMef. Thd council urges tho soldiers to arrosfc counter-revolutionary generals, 60 pre« venting ilynch law, which action js declared unworthy of tho revolutionary] army. Tho council has invited the regi-, menfcs nt'tho front to' elect plenipo* • tentiaries immediately to begin peacq ) pourparlers, with the enemy.—Aus.*. N.Z. Cable AEsn.-Router.

SIMMERING REVOLUTION IN FINLAN»

■ FIGHTING IMMINENT. London, November 22. . < '■■ Great events are impending in Fin*, land. Tho Socialists and Bourgeois parties have joined in $ compromise directed against Russia. Fighting isj expeoted at any moment.—Aus.-N.Z, Cable Assn.

Off THE RUSSIAN-ASIATIC FRONT

"CONSIDERABLE VICTORY" ON" . THE DIALA. (Rec. November 24, 0.35 a.m.) London, November 23. . The "Daily Chronicle's" Potrograd correspondent, commenting on the conn plex and incoherent situation in Rus« sia, which nation at present consists, of units recognising no central government, says: "Transcaucasia is govern* «1 by a committee of moderate Social* ists. Tlio Russian Caucasian 'Army lias just won a considerable victory on the Diala River., taking prisoner sixteen' hundred Turks."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.