RUSSIAN CRISIS

Southland Times, Issue 17866, 17 January 1918, Page 5

RUSSIAN CRISIS

THE PEACE CONFERENCE . THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES. THEIR RIGHTS ASSERTED. (By Telegraph.—Tress A—n.—Copyright, \ (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) AMSTERDAM, January l-'>. At the Brest- Li'ovsk ('••nfere'vr M. Hoffman sari that me Kusstan (i-ierau-m '?■- man tied the right,- of jeli-determinarion for the occupied territories. v.-hi:h did tv; apply to any country or -which th«> GovernBeni was founded purely on a power which ruthlessly suppressed nil who thought otherwise and in which, everyone with .tibt-renr views w;i- ihri :i r---: outkiw. .’o , H-Ut-man instance.: t Mr-xituali.-t out rage? upon t!ie oo’-.rg-''i.-.-.' and counter-revolt-jionary pe-uG. No dare wa- fixed for the n-->x: meeting. MILITARISTS IN ASCENDANCY. 110 YIELDING AS REGARDS POLAND. AMSTERDAM. January 16. Received January Id, ! I.3<t p.m. Mss sages trorn Berlin ind-c.ire that th» military parry ha? ga;;i r d the upper hand. It is ?emi-ofhci.al!y announced that ihere is no change in the official d'cv-mi-.- noon the Polish question. THE BOLSHEVIK DESPOTISM, PLANS OF OPPONENTS. l.t )\TH LX. January IS. The Daily New-'? Petrurrad ccrre-pnii. dent report? that the Constituent Assembly has been fixed to me-f on End ay when the anti Bolshevik majority will try to replace the Bolsheviks by a weaker (In vent incite committed t i securing peace by pressureupon the Alh<>-. The i’"l.-ir-viks are preparing to -r t up i new coulepen"e 'U up Soviet? in "iiK>s;;t.-:i to the Constituent Assembly. During the last lev. Mats the Bolsheviks have di.-Tnis-ed ; i j I i mnal- <-t the Ministry 01 Finance amt iGfi - e*d comput-ory labour. Religion will rot be taught m the schools ami probably th-y will issue a decree abolishing the right of inheritance MESSAGE FROM BRITISH LABOUR. AIMS DECLARED IDENTICAL. LABOUR’S VIEWS OF ANNEXATIONS.! AND OF BRITISH POLICY. j 1J LX DON, January 15. Received January 17, 12.-lo am. The Trade Union Congress and Labour Party have sent a me-sage to the Russian people in which they state that by breaking off negotiations Russia risks the suppression of her newly-won freedom. [n this crisis the British people must speak. The representatives ot organised Labour therefore proclaim that they hold identical aims with Russia and will accept no annexation? for the British Umpire. The message continues : “We respect the sovereign independence of the Turkish people in Constantinople, Thrace and Anatolia, but the British Government ha? justifiably pledged itself to the Arabs anti Jews. We accept the renunciation of annexation for tropical Africa and self-determination for India and the dependencies. Though the record of the British Government gives oc- j casion for but little reproach, and the I application of scll-deterrninat.ion will be difficult, our purpose is eventually to | raise these dependencies to the status of | dominions." j

TRUCULENT BOLSHEVIKS. | ARREST OF ROUMANIANS. j COPENHAGEN, January 10. Tb° Bolsheviks have arrested members of fh“ Roumanian Legation in Fctrograd. The reason is not disclosed. A REPRISAL, STOCKHOLM, J a tut ary !■">. , T’"»'eivc-d January 1 ti, 11.3 m p.m. The 801-'he'.hks' arres; of the Roumanian I .eg it is -n is supposed to oe a reprisal for the armt of Maxmiali.-e agitators at Jassy.