CONFLICTING REPORTS OF RUSSIAN REVOLT

North Otago Times, Volume CVI, Issue 13981, 17 November 1917, Page 5

CONFLICTING REPORTS OF RUSSIAN REVOLT

AMERICAN SOURtiS MPQRT DEFEAT OF \ KERENSKY -f' ■ 1 WILD AND SENSATIONAL CANARDS FROM Sweden ' ' ITALIANS' GRIM STRUGGLE / ' ■ CRITICAL FIGHT FOR VENICI IN PROGRESS r~' -ia ENEMY HELD ALONG ITALIAN FRONT •,• • • S BRILLIANT ADVANCE IN PALESTINE » i GERMAN ATTACKS ON YPRES-SECTOR SMASHED t.V ' * J ' (Cable—Press Association—Coypright.) RUSSIA IN THE GRIP OF CIVIL WAR PETROGRAD REPORTED TO .BE BURNING, i EUROPE BEWILpftED IN A WELTER OF RUMOUR, i (Australian r,nil New. Zealand Cable Association.) , COPENHAGEN, November 15. The Politiken states that it is reported that Petrograd is burning. (Australian'aml'Sow Zealand Cable Association.) LONDON, November 15. Petrograd has been isolated since Tuesday afternoon, and wireless signals have not been answered. The Stockholm correspondent of the Daily News says' that it is impossible to discover the truth from the welter of rumours re- . ceived from Russia. The Bolshevikis ) in looting the Winter Palace, committed horrible orpJtiiss 011 the Women's Battalion, who were defending the Palace. (Australian and New Zealand Cable Association.) COPENHAGEN, November 15. Colonel Muraviefr, commander of the Petrograd garrison, has , issued a proclamation that it is untrue that tlie Petrograd troops went over to M. Keronsky. He says they evacuated Gatchina for the purpose of avoiding unnecessary bloodshed/and took up a better . defensive position outside of Petrograd. Even if M. Kerensky is , reinforced tenfold, the revolutionaries are safe in the capital, which is orderly and quiet. The cruisers Aurora and Nufu, and . six torpedo boats are anchored in the Neva, and their guns command the whole city. ' 1 ■ i (Australian and New Zealand Cable Association.) LONDON, Novembei\ls. A wireless Rumanian official message says: Artillery actions are taking place in Trotus Valleys and the Crozesti sector. The batteries on several occasions fired against groups of enemy emerging from tljeir trenches brandishing flags for the purpose of frater- • nising. AMERICAN SOURCES ANNOUNCE .DEFEAT OF - , • .KERENSKY. ' • ' PETROGRAD QUIET AND ORDERLY., i ■ _ ' i- • (Australian and New Zealand Cable Association.) 'Received November I7> at 12.6,-a.Mir. .< ■ * ■ i NEW YORK, November 15. ■ , . The Petrograd correspondent of The Evening' fliobe, writing on the lltli November states that the situation is Hearing.a settlement. A coalition' Government; is probable. ' M. Kerensky wan V • \definitely.■•defeated 'iij'ya great gattle and his' Cossack : fled.- The Souvet troops re-captured Gatchina and Tsarkoc Seio>* Street fighting in Moscow ended in an armistice. •' Petrograd is calm and complete, order prevails, v

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* J PETROGRAD MAKES NO RESPONSE TO WIRELESS CALLS,, i v e " " - '"vK , ! (Renter's Telegrams), 'Received November 16, al 8.25 p.m. ;> . LONDON, November 16. : • The latest rumours from the Finnish frontier indicate wliole•.ssale anarchy in'theißussian provinces. , Two tliouSand were killed• in Moscow. There are veritable pogroms in' Kieff, Storoness and . other'towns. : .^"V ■ (Australian ancfßeutcr). • , Received November 16, at 7.5 op.m. " ' - LONDON, November 15. Swedish telegraphists failed to secure a response from Petrograd for forty hours. The silence at Tsarskoe Selo indicates that tjie wireless installation has also been smashed, The events are wrapped in mystery. ;• ; , Most of the Scandinavian reports are coming from a. suspicions source. Finland.has declared complete separation from Russia. The assassinations in' Finland include Mi Kordelin, an aged'PriVy Councillor, who left 36,000,000 francs /to t charities. '■& •, • ... j (Australian and New Zealand' Cable Association.)' ' Received November 16, at'9.lo >p.m, , ' ■ ! LONDON, November 15. , , There is no reliable news from Petrograd,, though" the Politiken j asserts that a telephone message reeeivpft at Helsingfors states tlijit when the revolutionaries reconquered GatShina, j\l, Kerensky with three to five thousand men retired southwards/. Part of the northern army was despatched'to cut Mi Kerensky's communications. The people seem to have lost'confidence in Lenin and 'Trotsky. It is intended to force a Social Revolutionary Coalition Government, representing all parties, except the well-to-do. The first task Jof . the new Government is to make peace. '• • 1 . • 1