APPEAL TO MISGUIDED TROOPS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 43, Issue 133097, 14 November 1917, Page 6

APPEAL TO MISGUIDED TROOPS.

(Keuter's Telnsrrains.") LONDON, Monday. M. Korcnsky has- issued a proclamation in which 'he appeals to the troops •who have joined the traitors, under misunderstanding or by force, to return to fulfil their duties to the Fatherland.

MAXIMILISTS EEING CRUSHED

LONDON", Monday. The "Russian position remains obscure. as news messages- have again been inter, vupted, although Mr Balfour announced in the House of Commons that he was in daily telegraphic communication Avith the Petrograd Ambassador, who remains at his post. He announced nothing fo-ilay regardin... the position at the front nor the progress of the crisis in the capital. Sunday's messages contained M. Keren sky's proclamation to the armies, and stating that lie remains Prime j\Tinister and ' Commander-iu-Chief, having .•irrived at the head of his troops, who remained faithful.

Other despatches- declare tljat the Maximalists are retreating in disorder before Korensky, and also that the Maximalists at Moscow have been defeated, and. that there were seven hundred casualties. The Daily Chronicle learns that Mr Ramsay Maedonald on Monday receivI'd a telegram from M. Kereusky slat intr that" the Provisional Government had been re-established. Copenhagen reports that no news from T'"trorrrad was received on Monday, •which is regarded as proof of the civil ■war beinjj in full progress. The Soviet Revolutionary Committee, issued an order to the Petrograd shopIcpppers to re-O]'en on Monday, and it also appealed to the workers to abstain from strikes and disorders. Tt is understood that the "Workmen 's Council appointed a sailor GovomorOoneral of Finland, and an engine-dri-ve! , Tir-o-Governor.

The "Railway Union at Petrogracl threatened a general strike unless conciliation was reached by the appointment of a democratic power representing all parties. Negotiations are proceeding. The Bolsheviks have dropped the offensive attitude at the Army Headquarters, and approve of combinations of democratic groups. The combatants at Moscow have come to terms -on the basis of the creation of a Socialistic Government, including Bolsheviks,