RUSSIA.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14611, 16 January 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

SIR GEORGE BUCHANAN INTER

/ VIEWED.

BOLSHEVIKIS SECURE-FOR THE

PRESENT.

RUSSIA FINALLY OUT OF THE

WAR.

THE THREE K's.

[Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.

London, Jan. 14. ' The "Daily Chronicle's" Stockholm correspondent interviewed Sir George Buchanan, who said: "Tie Bolshevikis have attained such' a position that at present nobody can overthrow them. Their trump cards are peace and the i general war weariness. Tley will remain in power vntil tie people, learn that they cannot be regarded as representative of the whole of Russia. South Russia is going its own way. The Bolshevikis have now summoned the Constituent Assembly, but my opinion is that the. Soviets are still tie real holders of power.

"It,is impossible to foretell the result of the Brest-Litovsk negotiations. Trotzky seems to be trying to establish a separate peace, but he is, also carrying on propaganda in the German East armies. The propaganda has had some results. "Kaledin, Kerensky and Korniloff are awaiting a crance to bring about order in Russia, No change can be i expected in the country's external politics in the near future. Russia has finished her role as an active power in this war." /