RUSSIAN SITUATION.
PETROGRAD QUIETER.
(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, Monday.
Mr Ransome, Petrograd correspondent of the "Daily News," interviewed Trotsky at the Smolny Institute. Trotsky said: "The German Government, wiser than most, has thrown aside its grandiose plans of conquest, and accepts peace in which Germany is neither conqueror nor conquered.'' Mr lvansome adds that Petrograd is more orderly than it has been for months owing to the Bolshevik control. The people do not like the Bolsheviks, but they obey their orders with startling alacrity. The only reason why the Constituent Assembly has not opened is that 400 delegates are necessary as a quorum, while only 391 have been elected. They include VIZ Bolsheviks and 204 Social Revolutionaries, of whom half support Lenin and Trotsky. Any attempt to turn out the present Government by force would only result-in anarchy favourable to tho Germans.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 44, Issue 134036, 2 January 1918, Page 5
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