PLANS OF THE CONGRESS
A SOCIALISTIC PROGRAMME
Tho r„ „,.' fou- . , • LONDON, 10th November. +o ™™ Congless .°f. Soldiers' Delegates, in a manifesto, states that it intends to propose an armistice on all the fronts, and the free return of all private and controf'nvS »?f r the -P eaSantS " ' The committees will estab ish W«W control over production-and arrange the food supply. The Con K ress is ncrDe aDl f t £ protect Sferevolution against all Imperialist efforts. The new Government will take all the neces sary measure., to provide the army with everything it requires by an energetic policy of requisitions and ,taxes imposed on all the moneyed classes The foldfera Se mpr ° Ye the economic Position of the families of Rpv n TwH^ i l y r. Chr °"AA Cle 'l l>ell ' ogl - ad ? orr espondent states that J>he -', Military WavlS liS 6 M- aS a PP° lnt ? d c°"™ries at every important raiT Government advancing on Petrograd not to'obaf the Provi-
' 6 - 6^-o^^o^^^ itself the sovereign power, offLd Jrf • r ? i ta Aemocratl P P eac <* terms, to- be hereafter formulated arid offered, are refused by Germany, the war is to continue. The soldiers at the front-are exhorted meanwhile to stay in - the trenches till further Notice It was also resolved that the workmen should control the factories" and thai dv»w S l f woul lS ra PPl<? with the food problem. Notwithstanding the withdrawal of many of the minority from the Conference, there was a'large arraY isni Sa ?t S is a sLed d th af ' -ere generally, imbued with Bolshevnf enS siasm. It is stated that Bolsheviks are forming a Cabinet without any Premier, members of the Cabinet taking turns to preside. After the capture of ' S^tru' 0 ™ ° Workmen and Soldiers learned thatCentyt four hours earlier Kishkm, who is now m gaol, had been appointed Dictator . (BEUTEft's TEKEGBAM.) .. •t»,„ „*„«• t Ai. -d • „. -, • ' - LONDON, 10th November. The staffs of the Russian Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Commerce and Finance have struck at Petrograd. Renter's Telegraph Agency states 'that +h» t?±?:,\ C °Z STeSS °£ has to appeal to the workmen, soldiers, and peasants of Russia, statine that the §° rraloff A Kerensky Kaledin, and others, are endeavouring to move r troops to-Petrograd, but that several detachments of the Keren&vtvoons have already sided; with those in revolt. The appeal urges the* oldieil active? Kere "v \' ?°' V "?""*? °f Komiloff, and the railwaym to stop the forces which Kerensky ;is sending to Petrograd. A GERMAN OPPORTUNITY m „. ' - . AMSTERDAM, 10th November »pr m -f man G ? ve . rnmßnfc w expected to offer the Leninites peacTon easy terms if they remain in power. ... f>"".« uu easy
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Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 115, 12 November 1917, Page 7
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