A BOLSHEVIKI PROCLAMATION.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14651, 4 March 1918, Page 5

A BOLSHEVIKI PROCLAMATION.

PREPARATIONS FOR LONG

SIEGE,

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association

and Reuter.)

London, March 1

A Russian, official proclamation has been issued by, the Presidency of the Central Soviets and Committee of Defence in Petrograd.

It declares that the proletariat is organising for the defence of the capital, which will have to resist a long siege, but will not capitulate untilthe last moment.

The proclamation i,rges all producing provinces to send food" to Petrograd and Moscow. Troops must be organised and sent to the front without delay.