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THE WAR.

TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS.

(Reuter's Service to the Chino Mail. V

REVOLUTIONARY

RUSSIA.

DEPOSED.

The Assembly then passed a re- solution in favour of the most speedy settlement of these problems,

At the close of the sitting aide claration was read from the repro-

KERENSKY GOVERNMENT sentatives of the Minimalists of the Council of Workmen's and' Soldiers* Delegates, stating their disapproval of the coup d'etat and that they' had withdrawn from the Petrograd- Council of Workmen's and Solders" Delegates.

LONDON, Nov. 8.

A Russian official message states: The garrison and proletariat at Petrograd have deposed the Kerenský Governmetit.

PROCLAMATION BY THE MILITARY REVOLUTIONARY COMMITTEE.

LONDON, Nov.-8.

A wireless Russian message states that the Council of Workmen's und Soldiers Delegates proclaims the authority of the Military Revolution ary Committee until the creation of

Government by the Council. The Committee calls upon the soldiera to watch closely the conduct of the men in command. Officers who do not jom the revolution, ira-

LONDON, Nov. 8

Reuter's own Correspondent at Petrograd has been silent since be reported that the Petrograd Tele- graph Agency was in the hands of the Maximalists.

THE SOVIETS AND ARMY REPRESENTATION.

Laspos, Nov. 8.

A Russian official message states thut the reucion of the Soviets were opened to-day and the Army Com mittecs were ordered to elect one delegate for every 25,000 men. The

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Farrested at once as enemies.

The Petrogend Council of Work- men's and Soldiers Delegates con- siders us the programme of the new authority firstly, to offer an im- mediate democratic punee; secondly,

sim against the Revolution.

THE BATTLE IN

FLANDERS.

NU DIELEJOV.

the immediate handing over of large. THE CAPTURE, OF PASSCHEN proprietarial lands to the peasuts; thirdly,the triusion of all authority to the Council of Work- men's and Soldiers' Delegates; and fourthly, an honest convocation of the Constituent Assembly:

AN IMPORTANT ACHIEVE MENT.

LONDON NOV. 8. "Passchendaele, which is the last

The National Revolutionary Army key of the whole series of ridger to must not permit uncertain military

the cast of the Ypres ridge, extends detachigents to leave the Front for

another three miles to the porth to Petrograd. It must use persuasion neighbourhood of Studenberg, but where this fuits, it must oppose any such sctica by force and without

mercy..

but slopes downward, but the papers point out that the actual gain is probably sufficient for present pur-

The message concludes: Sol diers! For Peace. For Bread. For poses. Lasd. For the Power of the People."

The message is signed by the Military Revolutionary Committee.

IMMEDIATE ARMISTICE AND PEACE DEMANDED.

LONDON, Nov. 8. Reuter has received telegrams from an official in the Petrograd Telegraph Agency, which is now in the handa of the Maximalists, stating that the. Maximalists hold the City and have urrested the Ministers,

Len, who is the leader of the movement, has demanded an in- zied ate armistice and peace.

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Passchendaele commands Hout bulst forest, which is in proces of. encirclement. The only elevated ground now left to the Germans in the whole region, is commanded by British guns.

The capture of the ridges is now, accomplished and is the Brst difficult step in the large strategical concep- tion, the development of which is expected to be attended with still greater results.

It is estimated that no fewer than ninety German Divisions have been met and defeated, during the past three months, by the British alone.

GERMAN BEFORT.

LONDON, Nov. 8. A German official message states. Dixmude has been subjected to p violent mina fre

The Military Revolutionary. Com.

and Soldiers Delegate have issued a proclamation stating that Petrograd is in its hands, thanks to the aasist anes of the garrison which enabled the coup d'etat to be brought about without bloodshed, and declares that The artillery at sundown, in

creased to the greatest violence, the new Goverment will propose un both sides of the Rhine-Rhone can immediate and just peace, will hand where the French attacked in the

The artillery continued to be delive against the Yeer sector and at Pass- chendaele

the land to the peasants and sum-afternoon, but were thrown back at mon the Constituent Assembly.

At an extraordinary meeting of the Council of Workmen's and Soldiers

Ammerzweiler.

They captured some of our pro tecting trenches, to the west of their retiewed Heidweiler, where

Delegates on the afternoon of attacks, in the evening, broke down November 7, the President, M. heavily,

Trotsky, declared that the Provisional Government no longer existed, that some of the Ministers had been. urrested and the Preliminary Paris- ment dissolved"

Lenin, who win greeted with longed-cheers, in a speech outlin

he three problems before the sian Dominiracy Firuse

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