RUSSIAN COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF LYNCHED

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 62, 6 December 1917, Page 5

RUSSIAN COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF LYNCHED

A BOLSHEVIK HORROR THE ARMISTICE WITH THE ENEMY | . London, December 4. A Russian official report states:—''General Krylenko has issued a proclamation stating that lie entered Mohileff, at tho head of the Revolutionary troops, to-day. He surrounded the Army Headquarters without fighting, thus removing the last obstacle to peace. Ho strongly condemns an act of lynch-law practised upon General Dukhonin. Popular hatred, he says, surpassed tho limits of reason, and in spite of all efforts to save Dukhonin, ho was thrown out of a railway train at Mohileff station and Hied. General Korniloff's flight on tho preceding day caused this excess. General Krylenko urges his comrades to be worthy of the freedom they have secured, and not to stain the authority of the people. "Revolutionary people," lie says, "aro fearful in a struggle, but must bo soft after victory." The struggle has_ received new strength by tho fall of the Headquarters. General Krylenko, in the name of the Revolution, calls for unity and discipline.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-Reuter. COLLISION WITH THE COSSACKS IMMINENT. Petrograd, December 4. General Krylenko's adjutant has telegraphed that Krylenko has arrived at Vitebisk (200 miles east of Vilna), with detachments of the Petrograd garrison. The Cossacks are gathering on their flanks and rear, and a collision is' possible at any moment. According to other sources of information the first clash has already occurred, and thero have been some casualties. It is circumstantially reported that General Korniloff has escaped. The Maximalists report that the General Staff of tho Army has surrendered. —Router.

FORTY-EIGHT HOURS' ARMISTICE SIGNED Amsterdam, December 4. A forty-eight hours' armistice between Russia and Germany was signed on Saturday at the Headquarters of Prince Leopold of Bavaria.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. RUSSIAN FIFTH ARMY CONVERTED TO BOLSHEVIK REGIME (Rec. December 5, 5.5 p.m.) • London, December 4, A Russian official telegram from M. Kliamsky, President of the Congress of tho Fifth Army, states:—"A delegation from tho Council of tho People's Commissaries, at tho invitation of tho Congress, arrived at Dyinsk on Sunday, when tho Congress solemnly promised to destroy all tho waspnests of the counter-revolution, which wcro obstacles to peace, particularly the nest of Dukhonin, Gotz, Auksenticff, and other traitors to the Revolution now sitting at Mohileff. Tho delegates then departed, the German dolegates receiving them in tho evening in tho neutral zone. There was a demonstration at Dvinsk, when banners were displayed, inscribed 'Long Live the Council of the People's Commissaries!' 'Control Production!' 'Abolish Secrecy in the Trenches!' - ''Our Spirits are High!'"—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn. EX-MINISTERS TO BE PROSECUTED Copenhagen, December 4. The Bolshevik Government intends to prosecute General Verdercvsky, M. Tereschenko, and M. Kischkin, members of the late Government. It will release the mombers of M. Kerensky's Cabinet when the National Assembly meets.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. THE EMBASSIES AND THE USURPERS. Paris, December 4. M. MaklakoE, the Russian Ambassador in Paris, replying to tho statement that he has been recalled bocause he took part in the Allied Conference, states 'that he did not attend the Conference. He could not recognise the present usurpers in Russia, and therefore had not presented his letters of credit. The entire Embassy had protested against the peaco proposals. They must fight against the German propaganda—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. RUMOURED ECONOMIC PRESSURE BY JAPAN AND AMERICA (Rec. December 5, 8.5 p.m.) Copenhagen, December 4. The "Berlingske Tidende's" Haparanda correspondent statos 'that it is rumoured that Japan and America nave agreed upon joint action against Russia; and that the Russian Finance Ministry has received information of the Allies' economic retaliatory measures in the event of a separate peace.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. "WE MUST FACE THE LOSS OF RUSSIA AS A FIGHTING ALLY" (Rec. December 5, 8.5 p.m.) Petrograd, December 4. Mr. Harold Williams states: —"We must face tho fact, one way or the other, that Russia, in spito of the will of the best elements of her population, must retire from the war." He warns the Allies against "contemptuously abandoning the whole of this great people because of a temporary fit of madness, the causes of which lie deep in her years of oppression. If we have to part from Russia as a fighting Ally, the parting should be friendly and sympathetic. To denounce her as a traitor would be the surest way of driving her into the arms of Germany."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. REPORTED SECESSION OF SIBERIA (Rec. December 5, 8.5 p.m.) Stockholm, December 4. It is reported that the whole of Siberia has been formed into an independent republic. It is expected that the new Government at Omsk will issue a proclamation withdrawing tho Siberian troops from the Russian front. The Kuban district has also formed itself into a republic.—Aus.j N.Z. Cable Assn. TROTSKY SHOWS THE HIGH HAND (Rec. December 5, 9 p.m.) Petrograd, December 4. Mr. Bourchier states that M. Trotsky, the Bolshevik Foreign Minister, addressing the Ambassadors in reference to their protests against the Bolshevik negotiations, declared that t'ho Government would not tolerate interference with its internal affairs. Any attempt to rekindle tho agitation would provoke retaliation. M. Trotsky has dissolved the Petrograd Municipal Council because it opposed tho Bolshevik orders to continue to work under threats of punishment till its successors had boon appointed. Tho council refused to accept its dissolution, and has appealed for the nation's support, as being the only legal form of government left, adding: "The officials refused to obey the new powers, but the bayonets compelled them." — "The Times." RAID ON PROPERTY RIGHTS (Rec. December 5, 9 p.m.) London, December 4. A wireless message from Petrograd states that the All Russian Congress of Peasants' Deputies has resolved to demand that all land of any agricultural value, together with stock, buildings, and implements, belonging to farmers who are not solo workers, bo forthwith transferred to the Land Committee for distribution amongst tho peasants.—Router. ATTEMPTED FRATERNISATION ON RUMANIAN FRONT (Rec. December 6, 1.20 a.m.) London, December 5. 1 Rumanian official communique states: "The Russian artillery prevented attempts at fraternisation. We stopped German officers from carrying manifestoes and proclamations."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-Reuter.