RUSSIA'S TROUBLES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 1018, 10 November 1917, Page 5

RUSSIA'S TROUBLES.

THE MAXIMALIST COUP D’ETAT. GOVERNMENT PROBABLY TRANSFEREE TO MOSCOW. (United Service.) PETROGRAD, Nov. 8. The coup d’etat was accomplished at 5 o’clock on Wednesday afternoon. Three Cossack regiments quartered in Petrograd refused to march against the Maximalists, but declared their intention of maintaining order.

Kerensky’s whereabouts are unknown, but the hope is expressed that lie reached Moscow, where the loyalists are certain to attempt to constitute a_ Government if the control of Petrograd hj; not regained. The Congress of Soldiers’ and Peasants’ Congress of All Russia, in a proclamation, delegates to the provincial branches the power to relievo the Government commissaries of all their duties anti ordering the release of arrested members of the agricultural committees and the arrest of the commissaries who arrested them.

The proclamation also abolishes the death penalty, and re-establishes the freedom of political propaganda and orders the, release of soldiers arrested for alleged political crimes, also the arrest of the ex-Minis-ters Terestchenko, Konovaloff, Kischkin, Malantovitcii. Nikitin, and others. The military are. enjoined to arrest Kerensky and all in complicity with Kerensky will lx- treated as guilty of high treason. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. LONDON, Nov. 8. As the telegraphs are in the hand® ot the Maximalists, Petrograd news must be taken with reserve. News received in London from an independent source indicated that Kerensky was aware of Lenin’s intention, and arranged 10 transfer the Government, to Masco w. It is believed that Kerensky will endeavour to rally the moderate, Cossacks and such troops as are not corrupted by the extremists. COSSACK GOVERNMENTS FORMED SANK PARTIES UNITING UNDER A WAR GOVERNMENT. WHAT A GERMAN MESSAGE REVEALS. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. Received November 10, 11 a.m PARIS, Nov. 9. Lo Matin’s Geneva correspondent states that the Kuban Cossacks, comprising the Dkranians and Mountaineers, have proclaimed a separate republic, incorporated as an independent State in the confederation of the Russian Republic. They have confiscated the landed estates, and selected Colonel Felomonoff as president. The Don Cossacks, including the whole of the Volga Steppo mountain districts and the Caucasians, have decided to form a Cossack Federation under General Alexioft' and are establishing a War Government. All the sane parties in the Russian section of the preliminary Parliament have joined the movement. AMSTERDAM, Nov. 9. A German message from Petrograd states that the troops belonging to the Russian northern army have joined the Maximalists and are marching to Petrograd.