MASSING OF GERMAN TROOPS ANGERS THE BOLSHEVIK!

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 87, 5 January 1918, Page 7

MASSING OF GERMAN TROOPS ANGERS THE BOLSHEVIK!

New York, January 3. Tho "Now York World's" Petrograd correspondent states that persistent reports that the. Germans are massing troops opposite. Dvinsk have angered the Bolshcviki, and constituted one of the causes of tho interruption of tho negotiations.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. GERMAN ASCENDANCY IN RUSSIA )• PREPARING FOR INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL INVASION. London, January 3. Tho "Horning Post" correspondent in Pctrograd supplies a remarkable article describing tho German ascendancy in Russia. Ho states that, apart from two hundred peace delegates in Pctrograd, there are hundreds of business agents from Germany, and thousands of prisoners of war aro enjoying complete freedom of niovemont. _ The German accent is heard everywhere, and ensures respect from tho Russian proletariat. The Germans are preparing betimes for an overwhelming industrial and commercial invasion into helpless Russia. The majority of the German and Austrian prisoners of war will not return to the fighting front without compulsion. They will not oven return to Germany after the wsy. The officers and non-commissioned officers will return, but the privates see the possibility of living_ much more profitably in Russia than in Germany. Germans not confined in internment camps and living amongst tho peoplo have easily proved their superiority to the Russians "in the arts of life, whether in agriculture, industry, or commerce. It is a question whether the British Empiro will feel secure against Russia in the hands of the enterprising and industrious Germans, backed by a man-power of 150 millions of Russians.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. LENINITES FOSTERING REVOLUTIONARY PROPAGANDA MEETING OF WAR HAS FARCICAL RESULTS. Petrograd, January. 3. The Leninites organised a meeting of war prisoners in order to foster revolutionary propaganda. It had comic results. Eight hundred prisoners assembled in an evil smelling circus, and were addressed in eight languages. The Germans waited in stolid silenco untilthe. chairman asked somo German prisoner to address the meeting. An individual rose and said: "It is time for deeds, not for words," and sat down. Others then complained of illtreatment, one saying that he had to apply for special leave if lie wished to stay out in the evening. The chairman promptly closed the meeting.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. RUSSIA TORN BY AN INFINITTY OF WARRING FACTIONS. London, January 3. The Petrograd correspondent of tho "Daily Chronicle" says that Russia is now torn by an infinity of warring factions. Sunday's demonstration was ostensibly for peace, but in reality for civil war. The educated classes were absent. ' It was a pitiful display of mass suicide—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. MARTIAL LAW DECLARED AT MOSCOW. (Rec. January 4, 5.5 p.m.) .'"'_. Washington, January 3. . Advices state that martial law has been declared at Moscow. Tho Bolsheviki have seized the banks and factories.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. BRITISH AND FRENCH ACTION CAUSES SENSATION IN RUSSIA. ' Petrograd, January 3. The news of the withdrawal of all the British ships in Archangel and tho breaking up of the British and Fronch depots has caused a sensation in Russia.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. BRITISH AMBASSADOR AND MEMBERS OF WAR MISSION RETURNING, (Rec. January 5, 0.5 a.m.) Petrograd, January 3. Sir George Buchanan and tno members of the British War Mission are returning to London.—Aus.-N.Z. Cab'e Assn. RUSSIAN EMBASSY IN LONDON DECLINES TROTSKY'S ORDERS. (Rcc. January 4, 8 p.m.) London, January 3. Tho Russian Embassy, refuses to reccognise Citizen Litvinoff, and declines to hand over the money or documents in the Embassy's possession.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. _ [A cable message published yesterday stated:—Trotsky has appointed Citizen Litvinoff to be provisional Plenipotentiary in London, and has ordered the Embassy, the Military Mission, and other Russian officials in Britain to hand over their documents. Citizen Karpinsky has received a similar appointment.] : , ALLIES MAY TAKE ACTION IN SIBERIA. . . Paris, January 3. The French Cabmot Council discussed tho murder of three Frenchmen at Irkutsk, including the Consul. Allied action in Siberia is possible. The assistance of Japan, which is facilitated through the co-operation of America, Japan, and the Allies, is likely, to forestall German interference in Si-beria.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. RED GUARDS ORDERED TO FINLAND. (Rec. January 5, 1.10 a.m.) Copenhagen, January 3. The Red Guard is mobilising at Petrograd, and has been ordered to proceed to Finland. Five thousand have been sent there already.—Aus.-NIZ. Cable Assn.