CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY
TO MEET UNDER SUFFERANCE
(AT7STRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION AND BEUTMf.)
LONDON, '13th January. The Daily, Chronicle's Petrograd correspondent states thai the Bolsheviks intend that the Constituent Assembly, the election of which was recently completed, shall sit only for a lew days to ratify M. Lenin's decrees, and hand the sovereign power to the Soviets, when it will dissolve. If it refuses it will be compulsory, dissolved for good. _ , The situation at Petrograd is slowly improving. Siberia js despatching two hundred trucks of corn daily, and Southern Russia has partially resumed the despatch of foodstuffs, which was stopped after the revolution. A wireless Russian message states: —The Central Executive of the Council of Workmen's, Soldiers', and Peasants' Deputies has passed a decree giving local councils power to recall members of the Constituent Assembly in all cases where they do not express the views of the labouring masses. All members of the Ukrainian Black Sea Congress have been summoned to. Kieff on 23rd January to discuss the question of a "Ukranian Constituent Assembly,. trie reports on a Black Sea Navy to Ukrainia, the reorganisation of the Navy upon a voluntary basis, and the organisation of trade unions.
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Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 13, 15 January 1918, Page 7
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