RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 December 1917, Page 5

RUSSIA.

THE INEVITABLE REBOUND. RUSSIAN OUTLOOK BRIGHTER. London, Dec. 12. Arft'hi>r:mtivc soiircM state that the Russian outlook is brighter. The pro-' Ally partv among the l'.olshoviks, has been considerably .«trmgthoned by Germany's attitude towards peace negotiations. The Cologne Gazette says that the opposition to the ?.Taxiinnlistß is increasingly threatening mu( the Revolutionary Socialists and peasants are adopting an agressh'e attitude to the Leninites. PRO-CERMANS AT HARBIN. CHINESE APPLY FOR TROOPS. . Tientsin, Dec. T5. •Serious disturbances occurred at Harbin between extreme pro-Germans and allied nationals. The Chinese authorities telegraphed for troops to protect allied nationals. GERMANY'S HARSH TERMS.' THE ROD FOR RUSSIA'S BACK London, Dec. 1-. The Daily Chronicle Petrograd correspondent states that the German armistice terms were the evacuation of Petroarad by the Russians until general peace wiis reached, but there wa; no provision | as to whether it would be occupied' liy th'e Germans; secondly, that the Baltic fleet he disarmed! thirdly, that the whole of the Ukraine be ceded to Austria, including the northern shores of the Black Sea. The population of Petrograd is restless and is fleeing in anticipation of the meeting of the Constituent Assembly. Only I a hundred members have arrived, and the electoral board w>.ich should make arrangement* foj til* weetir.ff nf the Assembly are imprisoned in the Sedley Institute OCCUPATION OF VLADIVOSTOK. JAPANESE PROTECT MUNITIONS. New York, Dee. 12, The Washington correspondent of the Now York Times report* that tfej Japanese in occupying Vladivostok, undoubtedly acted with tho knowledge and consent of the Entente Powers. The action is important becauso it will prevent the Bolshevik forces which have been ordered to occupy the town securing tho vast stores of ammunition and other war supplies shipped from America.

THE FANATICAL TROTSKY. FIGHTING GERMANS WITH LEAFLETS. Petrograd, Deo. 12. M. Trotsky, in a speech, said: "The Allies have warned us that Germany is deceiving- us, but we are a hundredfold stronger than'the cunning Germans. If Germany will not agree to Courland and Lithuania electing theirynvn forms of Go vernment, we will strew the enemy trenches with millions of proclamations so that the Germans, after 28 days, will accept our conditions for an armistice. "If the Allied Governments do not agree to our conditions, they will be thrown down one after another." WINTER PALAOE ON FIRE. Received Dto. 13, 0.30 p.m. Stockholm, Dec. 13. A Haparanda message states that travellers from Petrograd report that the Winter Palace is afire. GERMAN PRISONERS IN RUSSIA. ONE HALF ESCAPE. REMAINDER SCATTERED BROAD- - CAST. Received Dee. 13, 9.20 pin. Rome, Dec. 12. The Russian Embassy states that since the revolution the supervision of Austrian and German prisoners in Russia has been merely nominal. Fully one-half have regained their liberty and scattered broadcast, while thousands 'have settled down in Russia". "umbers have escaped to Asia, and many who were Slavs, Roumanians, or Italians have joined the Roumanian army. SENATE FORCIBLY DISSOLVED ARRESTS CONTINUE. CADETS UNDER SURVEILLANCE. Router Service Received Dec. 13, 11.50 p.m. Petrograd, Dec. 13. The Maximalists have forcibly dissolved the Senate. The Red Guard is arresting more (ioven.ment officials. A decree lias been issued ordering the arrest of the principal Cadet leaders and the surveillance of Cadet organisations, in view of the mtter's eonferrms: wills Mfilirrals Kaledin and Knrniloir '