RUSSIA.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14588, 17 December 1917, Page 5

RUSSIA.

INTERNECINE FIGHTING.

A BOLSHEVIKI REPORT.

KORNILOFF TROOPS DISARMED

PEACE NEGOTIATIONS TO FOLLOW

ARMISTICE.

(Renter's Telegrams.)

London, Dec. 14

The Petrograd- Government telegrapts that Maximalist troops occupied Tauaraoavka, in Kaluga, disarmed and arrested Korniloff's shock troops and restored the revolutionary authority.

The Commissioner of the Black Sea Fleet telegrapher! asking immediate despatch of all Black Sea detachments, with numerous machine guns. He says the military cadets are attacking Rostoff with armoured cars.

The Commissioner of the Fifth Armj has announced the arrival of Krylenko at Dvinsk, and adds: "The Committee of the Fifth Army has undertaken to arrange an armistice on its front."

General Boldyreff, commander of the army, has been dismissed and arrested.

The Soviet at Moscow seized the works of the newspaper "Russkoe Slovo" for publishing a rumour tfcat Krylenko's seizure of the General Staff Headquarters was carried out at the instance of German Headquarters.

Trotzky announces that if an armistice is signed at Brest Litovsk, the Commissioners will be empowered to enter inta peace negotiations.