SWITZERLAND'S PRECAUTIONS.
Received March 6, 10.30 p.mu
BERNE,
March 4
The Federal Council has prohibited the formation of Soldiers' Councils under penalty of imprisonment To: two years. They have also ordt>red severe punishment for the dissemination of false news likely to prejudice discipline of the army or alarm the population.
LONDON, March 5
The Daily Chronicle's Geneva correspondent says : " A correspondent at Kieff discloses tha/t Lenin and Trotsky planned to renew the Brest LitovsK coup, which proved so successful wirA\ Germany, and thus entice the Entente into an sipparently advantageous peace with a view of undermining the Allied Governments by propaganda. An oxtraordinnry council of war was held at the Kremlin, and decided to accept the Principo invitation, with the view of ••ibsequently developing a worldwide Bolshevik doctrine."
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 17515, 7 March 1919, Page 5
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