KALEDIN AT MATERIAL SOURCES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11400, 20 November 1917, Page 5

KALEDIN AT MATERIAL SOURCES.

' WILL FREEZE AND STARVE PETROSRfiB. KERENSKY APPARENTLY ELIMINATED. (Received TuesdaV. 1..10 a.m.j STOCKHOLM, Nov. IS. The Cossacks' great advantage is in the occupation of the Donetx coal held, which places the whole of the Russian railways at their mercy. Kaledin can starve or freeze Potrograd out. and has already stopped 200 waggons of food. He ami ounces Ins intention of stopping the whole transport of food to Pct.rograd. Many well-to-do people arc migrating to Archangel. It is evident Kerensky is done for, and it is generally believed that a military Dictator will arise—-perhaps Alexiclf or Kaledin.

The young officers who formed the chief force resisting the Bolsheviks in Potrograd wore massacred by the thousand. In one ease the Bolsheviks captured an armoured car v manned hy Cadets. The Bolsheviks thrust their bayonets through tho loopholes and pinned the unfortunates inside, then hauled the Cadets out. They were trampled to death under the feet of the mob.

LARGE FORCES IN MOTION,

APPRO ACHING PETROGRAD

AND MOSCOW,

(Received Monday, 11.15 p.m.)

LONDON, Nov. 19. Tho "Daily Chronicle’s” Potrograd correspondent reports on Sunday night that a large force was approaching Potrograd, its purpose being unknown. Another large force was approaching Moscow. VICTIMS OF DISTURBANCE. (Received Monday, 1.50 a.m.) PETROGEAD, Nov. 19. The losses in the Moscow lighting arc between 8000 and 10,000. The revolutionaries are victorious.

NEW COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF.

LONDON, Nov. IS.

A wireless Russian official message says a notification signed by Dukhonin, issued in Petrograd, states that he has temporarily assumed the post of Com-inandcr-in-Chicf. Orders have been given for the stoppage of further troops going to Petrograd, and only transports connected with military operations are permitted.