CHAOS IN RUSSIA.
ANARCHY, AGRARIAN RIOTS, MURDER AND LOOTING GENERAL SOVIETS WANT TQ OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT/ Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. Received October ]B. 8.35 a.m. PETROGRAD, Oct. 17. The Constituent Assembly elections took place on the 25th November. The Assembly meets on the 30th December. The election campaign is beginning' with anarchy and spreading to agrarian riots. Looting, murder and food riots are raging in many towns; bands of soldiers arc marauding at various points behind the lislitint; lino-, and, in the interior, additional confusion is caused, owing to the Bolshoveks insisting on the summoning of an All Russian Congress of Soviets for' November 2nd, with the object, of overthrowing the Government and placing the power in the Soviets' hands.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 10110, 18 October 1917, Page 5
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