RUSSIAN UPHEAVAL.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 December 1917, Page 3

RUSSIAN UPHEAVAL.

COMPLICATED jtIUSSIA. civil warcontinues. The “Daily Chronicle’s” Petrogrnci 7 r' corresponent jays, the civil war is m--1 creasingly-complicated. f The Ukrainians have concluded treaty with the Don Cossacks, whereto Terek-kuban Cossacks adhere. ligHt--4 ing is expected at Kieff, and has already begun ftt Odessa. The -Stock ««* is bewildered, not knowing whethe. to take orders from the Petrograd government, or from the Ukrainian Rada. " ... It is announced that the Loss. ■' hold Rostoff and are advancing on \ oRussian ambassadors at London and W Tokio, have been ordered to return to Petrograd, to answer charges of spread-, ing falsi- news regarding the armistice. If they disobey, their property in Russia will! be confiscated. The hanks already refuse to pay out large amounts. Anarchists are becoming more active and it is feared 10 5 wJ surpass the Leninists in the expropriation of the goods of the Bnrgeoise, middle and upper classes.

A NEW SIBERIA. (Received This Day at l.<>. p.m.) NEW YORv December .1.9. The United .Press correspondent at. 'J’okio states American’s arriving from Petrograd assert that Siberia is plan niiig self government as an indcpciulcntnntion extending from Vladivistock to Omsk with the capital at Irkutsk. KERENSKY ATTACKS. . ) COPENHIAG'EN December 19. It is reported that Kerensky has reappeared in the vicinity of Petrograd leading thousands of soldiers. Bolshevik troops have been sent to meet' him. It is expected that private accounts in the banks will soon be confiscated.