RUSSIA'S TROUBLES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17158, 10 November 1917, Page 7

RUSSIA'S TROUBLES

A COHNTEE-REVOLUTION. THE PEEMIER DEPOSED. (Extraordinary to Press Association.) VANCOUVER, November 8. Premier Kerensky has been deposed. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. NEW YOEK, November 8. The Bolsheviks (Extremists) are in control of Petrograd ; and announce that a separate peace is imminent. MINISTERS ARRESTED. LENIN DEMANDS IMMEDIATE PEACE. Renter's Telegrams. LONDON, November 8. Telegrams from the official Petaograd Telegraph Agency, -which is now in the hands of the Maximalists, state that the latter hold the city, and have arrested Ministers. Lenin, -who is the leader of the movement, has demanded an immediate armistice and peace. Renter's own correspondent has been silent since he reported that the Maximalists had seized Renter's Agency.

RUSSIAN NEWS UNRELIABLE. M. KERENSKY'S PROBABLE INTENTIONS. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, November 1 B.' (Received Nov. 9, at 7.30 p.m.) As the telegraph office is in the hands of the Maximalists, Petrograd news must be taken with reserve. News received in London from independent sources indicates that M. Kerensky was aware of Lenin's intention and had arranged to transfer the Government to Moscow. It is believed that M. Kerensky will endeavour to rally the moderate Cossacks and such troops as .are uncorrupted by the extremists* HOPE CENTRES ON MOSCOW. RELIANCE ON LOYALISTS. PETROGRAD, November 8. (Received Nov. 9, at 7.30 p.m.) The coup d'etat -was accomplished at five o'clock on Wednesday afternoon. Three Cossack regiments quartered at Petrograd refused to march against the Maximalists, but declared their intention to maintain order. M> • Kerensky's whereabouts is unknown, but the hope is expressed that he has reached Moscow, where loyalists are certain to attempt to constitute "a Government if control in Petrograd is not regained.

THE MAXIMALISTS' POWER.

PROCLAMATION OF NEW PARTY. GOVERNMENT ACTIONS REVERSED. ARREST OF EX-MINISTERS ORDERED. Reuter*B Telegrams. PETROGRAD, November 8. (Received Nov. 9, at 7.30 p.m.) The Congress of Soldiers and Peasants and the Congress of All Russia, in a proclamation, delegates to provincial branches power to relieve Government commissaries of all their duties; also ordering the release of arrested members of agricultural committees and the arrest of the commissaries who arrested them. The proclamation also abolishes the death penalty and re-establishes freedom of political propaganda. It orders the release of soldiers arrested for alleged political crimes, and also the arrest of ex-Ministers Terestchenko, Konovaloff, Kischkin, Malantovitch, Nikitane, and others. The military are enjoined to arrest M. Kerensky and all in complicity with him. M. Kerensky is to be treated as guilty of high treason.

ONLY PETROGRAD CONTROLLED

Renter's Telegram*. NEW YORK, November 8. The United Press London correspondent authoritatively learns that the Maximalists control only Petrograd, which was seized on Wednesday night.

MILITARY COMMITTEE'S PRO GRAMME.

Admiralty, per Wireless Press., LONDON, November 8.

Russian official: The Military Revolutionary Committee's programme is: First, to offer immediate democratic peace; second, the immediate handing over of large proprietorial lands to the peasants; third, the transmission of all authorities; fourth, the honest convocation of a Constitutional Assembly.

REUNION OF SOVIETS,

ORDERS TO ARMY COMMITTEE. Admiralty, per Wireless Press. LONDON, November 8. A Russian official message states that the Reunion of the Soviets opened to-day. The Army Committee was ordered to.elect delegates for every 25,000; failure to send delegates is declared a sin against the revolution. SOLDIERS' DEPUTIES IN CHARGE. SOLDIERS MUST OBEY THEM. Admiralty, per Wireless Preaa. LONDON, November 8. Russian official: A proclamation has been issued by the Armies' Committees and the Soviet of Soldiers' Deputies, announcing that the garrison and proletariat of Petrograd have deposed _M. Kerensky's Government, which rose against the people. The Petrograd Soviet of Workmen's Deputies welcomes N the change, and proclaims tho authority of the Military Revolutionary Committee until the creation of a Government of the Soviets., The soldiers are ordered to watch the conduct of their officers, and those who do not orjenly and immediate] y join the accomplished revolution must" be arrested as enemies of the national revolutionary army. They must not permit nncertain militarv detachments to go to Petrograd from t*he front, but must oppose such action mercilessly. The manifesto concludes: "The soldiers are for peace, bread, land, the people, and the power of the people." THE FIRST JARRING NOTE. MAXIMALISTS DISAPPOINTED. TlCTitpr's Telegrams. PETROGRAD, November 8. An extraordinary meeting df soldiers and peasants' delegates, under the presidency of Trotzky, after declaring that the Provisional Government no longer osdsted, outlined the problems before the Russian democracy : — • ' Firstly, the immediate conclusion of the ■war, for which the new Government must proclaim an armistice to the belligerents; secondly, handing over the land to the peasants; thirdly, the settlement of the economic crisis. The assembly passed a resolution in favour of the speediest settlement of these problems and closed the sitting. A declaration was read from representatives of the Maximalists in the Soldiers and Peasants' Council stating that they were disappointed at the coup d'etat, and announcing their intention to withdraw from participation in the Petrograd deliberations.

FLIGHT OF KEEENSKY. ißr.iitnr'n TplpsTarns. NEW YORK, November 8. M. Kerensky has fled. v THE HAWKS GATHERING. Router , r Tf>lpfrram"t STOCKHOLM, November 8. A HapaTanda telegram states that a large German squadron is crnisrn/j off Helsingfors.