RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 December 1917, Page 5

RUSSIA.

ARMIES NOT WITH BOLSHEVIKS, ONLY TWO OUT OF FIFTEEN. Australian Cable Association. Received Dec. 2, 5.5 p m. London," Dec. 1. Tlie Daily Chronicle's Petrograd correspondent states that General Krylenko (the Bolsheviks' nonjinee) had a hostile reception when attempting to address the troops, who ridiculed and attacked Krylenko, whose bodyguard intervened. General Krylenko has ordered wholesale arrests, including generals. Two armies out of fifteen support Ge""""l [Crvlcnko. GERMANY'S MOTIVES. IN NEGOTIATING WITH BOLSHEVIKS Aits, and N.Z. CaJble Assoc. and Reuter. Received Dec. 2, 5.5 p.m. Copenhagen, No'v. 30. • The Danish press opines that Germany would never have negotiated with the Bolsheviks had these had the remotest possibility of retaining control. The fact of Germany negotiating suggests that she is anxious, for political purposes, to take advantage of the extremists' temporary possession of power in Russia, THE ELECTIONS. BOLSHEVIJSS POLL HKAVItC Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc. and Reuteiv Received Dec. 2, 6.5 p.m. London, (Dec. 1. The Daily Chronicle reports that the Bolsheviks at Petrograd polled 400000 the Cadets 250,'0f1i), and the Soeial'Revolutionaries 150,000. Lenin, Trdtzky, and Milhikoff are among those elected.

.COUNTERING THE BOLSHEVIKS. WHAT ARE THE ALLIES DOING? Received Dec. 2, 8.10 p.m. Paris, Dec. 1. The universal question is: What are tlx- Allies doing with a view to countering the Russian defection? It is 'believed the' Bolsheviks may vet be overthrown if the Allies rally their adversaries. Anyway the Allied staffs are agreed that they will be able to cope with the Aus-tro-German division released in the event of a complete Itussian defection.

PEACE PRELIMINARIES. MEWING ON SUNDAY. 1 Petrograd, Nov. 30. Russian delegates telegraph that the Russo-German plenipotentiaries will meet at mid-day en Sunday, crossing the Dvitisk-Vilna railway westward of the village of Teutikalishky, between the opposing military lines. The delegates will travel in a special train to the German cast front headquarters at Bre?i Litovsk, ;THE LONDON PACT. AWES' PROTEST. Pptrpgr'ad. Nov_ 30. General Ctyerpmisoff. ex-eommandj?r of the south-western and noftilern fronts, has been in a fortress. A Prij' yate soldier has been appointed military commander in "the Moscow district. The heftds of flie British Mission to Russian headquarters, supported liy their Jfapnoh, Italian, Roumanian, Serbian, and Japanese, colleagues, presented General Dukhoiim with a Note energetically protesting against any attempt to break the London pact, prpclpding a separate peace op armistice. Rpsgia must be prepared for inosf spriqus cpnsequences. Tlje correspondent adds that since tho latest upheaval the Allied Embassies held no communication- with' the Extremists' GpyerjlißPflt;

THE TREATIES.

PROTEST AGAINST THEIR PUBLICATION. Stockholm, Nov. 80. Thp Allied Ambassadors at Petrograd have pretested against the publication of the treaties. General Dukhouin has issued an army order that he will retire without resistance with his officers if ,M. Krylenko comes to headquarters. The BplshpVlks aya untiringly searching for M. Keyonsky. It is believed that he is living in disguise in Finland, It is imported that Ukraiflia :is withdrawing all troeps and Iwing a section exposed. ——— REPORTED ARREST OF RERENSKY, Rect 4 I ®- a ? P- ro ' Pet-.f-graci, Pes, J. It is reported tho" K 1,a3 been arrested.