BOLSHEVIK REGIME SHAKING

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 77, 24 December 1917, Page 5

BOLSHEVIK REGIME SHAKING

NEfV REVOLUTION HOURLY EXPECTED SANGUINARY FIGHTING IN SOUTH RUSSIA (Rec. December 23, 5.5 p.m.) . Copenhagen, December 21. Private messages from Finland indicate- tliat tho Bolshevik regime is shaking. Several of the leaders havo loft Petrograd. Lenin has arrested a number of leaders of tho Socialist Revolutionaries, including _ Savinkoff, in addition to a largo number of Cadets, .ill have been imprisoned at tho Fortress of St. Peter and Paul. Lenin has not yet been able to find Miliukoff. Tho chief difficulty is food, Tho poor are furious at Lenin's failure to feed the city. Tho messages add that a new revolution may bo expected hourly.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. GERMAN AND AUSTRIAN OFFICERS IN BOLSHEVIK FORCES IMPERIAL FAMILY TO BE EE LEASED. (Rec. December 23. 5.5 p.m.) London. December 21. Tho "Morning Post" correspondent states that Potrograd is in a state of siege, due to the rapidly increasing demoralisation and widespread drunkenness. The mob is seeking every possip'o ..("fling PiMo i° r intoxicating liquors. Even soldiers sent to restore order join in the uehauch. Dissensions between the soldiers and the Red Guard are increasing, the soldiers demanding that tho Red Guard receive the ordinary soldier s pay, instead ol sixty roubles daily. German and Austrian officers and prisoners of war arc in many cases officering Bolshevik forces. It u reported that two army corps, composed of prisoners of war, under their own officers, ara nithi i striking distance of Potrograd. It is announced that Lcmn is issuing a decrco releasing tho ex-Tsar and all tho other members of the Imperial Family in order to enable them to go abroad, in compliance with their reques s. General Kaledin lias had a signal victory over the Red Guards at Rostoff. the Cossacks, in a bloody vengeance, transfixing the Red Guards on their lances and Hinging them into the Don. Bolshevik leadors tried to escape to tho Black Sea Fleet, but Cossack artillery shelled the cruiser on which they wcro and it went ashore.—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn.

GERMAN TROOPS 'TO RESTORE ORDER IN PETROGRAD. (Rcc. December 23, 5.5 p.m.) London, December 21. Tlio "Mornin" Post's" Stockholm •correspondent i sa.vs telegrams from Petro<*rad state that leaflets have been distributed in the barracks stating that German troops will shortly arrive in Petrograd, but only to restore order. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. CONSPIRACY BETWEEN LENIN AND THE GERMANS ' NEGOTIATIONS DELAYED TO PERMIT OF REMOVAL OF TROOPS. i Amsterdam, December 21. Dutch information reveals that the Germans and Lenin conspired to fool iv v.,, delaying the armistice negotiations till every division and hnt'wv intended for the West front lind been set in motion before Germany sbmed in order to take advantage of the clause which permits the completion of movements commenced before the date of signature.-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

CIVIL WAR AREA IN SOUTH RUSSIA EXTENDING (Rec. December 23, 5.5 p.m.) London, December 21. Mi- Nnnrchier says tho civil war area in South Russia is oxtending. mi I l 'V Xr reiectiiig tho ultimatum, ordered the total mobilisation of the The Ra These will join General Tcherbatohelf s Russians forces m t concentrating between Coniel and Bakhmach, !E are massing at Miena station. The raj way.tracks have while the Bolshevm are b ]n tll dc f cat r/L riZv ki On tlie other hand, the Bolsheviki have been victorious ° f p riff and occupied the town. The Rada forces contro Odessa, near Pros from Kieff. Goneral DutrolF has mobilised all the Ural Cossacks and dispatched them against Cheliabinsk * Jorgo Kalmuk and Bashkir Cossacks is advancing towards Ufa - Ihe Times.

RECOGNITION OF UKRAINE REPUBLIC DEMANDED RUMANIANS JOINING UKRAINIAN FORCES. (Rec. December 23, 5.5 p.m.) London, December 21. a Pnfrnerad telegram says the Ukraine Assembly lias rejected the Boli, k- ultimatum and is assembling and mobilising the Ukrainian Cossacks, shevik ul I . j n j the Ukrainians. General Tcherbotcheff has been commander-in-chief. The whole of the Ukrainian forces are within appointed Bolshevik army. Tlio Ukrainians demand the recognition HT Ilk ine Republic) the Ukrainian management of tlio south-western ?> f n n front sand one-third of tho scats in the Federal Government. The Rumanian • j. j jjj to j )G transported before payment Assembly thati■ Je , (1 bj ' hvn £% with bXotes. Tlio Bolshevik Commissaries replied an mnnt would bo possible if the Ukraine refused to assist General Kalcdm Cable Assn.

RUSSIA'S PEACE TERMS REFUSED BY GERMANY London, Dccembor 21. Tt is reported from l'etrograd that the Germans liavo refused Russia's terms, and the negotiations have boon suspended.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. TROTSKY SAYS PEACE IS THE ONLY HOPE OF RUSSIA. (Rec. December 23, 5.5 p.m.) London, Decombor 21. Mr Phillips Pricc, writing from Petrograd, says that Trotsky in a speech 1 .Inrcd' "Russia intonds to proceed with the peaco negotiations because peaco '• tL nnlv hone of saving the country from ruin and starvation, but if Gei'.naiy refuses our terms we will fight and perish together."-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.