The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-01-26
Four Other Kerensky Officials Are
Transferred to the Kresy
Prison.
ABANDON GUNS TO AGITATORS
Austrian Troops Refuse to Fire on
Hungry Demonstrators - Hungry
Strikers Arrested at Some
Places, Says 'swiss Dis
patches.

Copenhagen, Jan. Zo.-feace heso-
tiations between the bolsheVtkl en-
voys and the representatives OF the
central powers will be resumed ut
Brest- -Litovsk next Tuesday, according
to information received from Beriln.
Petrograd, Jan. 23.-Premier Lenlne
and Secretary of State Bonch-Bure-
witch have ordered the red guard anu
soldiers to comb the city for 1.-THE mo-
tor car with red guards and sailors
who killed Shingaroff and kokoshklne.
The murder of the former Kerensky
ministers has created a feeling OF pro-
test and revulsion among the bolsheVlN
officials who are anxious to prevent
the situation from getting beyond thelr
control.
The Petrograd council of soldiers
and workmen's delegates has adopted
resolution attacking the murderers'
declaring it never would approve sum
mary Justice and that no crimes had
been committed by those killed. Ihe
resolution urged all soldiers to search
for the murderers.
Thousands View Bodies of Slain.
II has been learned that the sailors
! who were among the assassins were
not part of any crew stationed In re-
trograd, but had recently arrived from
/ Finland where they had been attached
to the Baltic fleet. The bodies OF the
slain ministers, with those OF the VIC
tins Of Fridays demonstration, includ-
Il ing nj. Loginoff Siberian member q
the constitueflt assenalai sEeEa viewed
by thousands today Ia d chapel OF the
Marine hospital.
-Four other members of the keren-
sky government, who had been IN an
other hospital because Of illness, were
transferred to the Kresy prison by the
bolsheviki authorities. The ministers
are A. V. Kartasheff, A. I. Konovalotf'
S, II. Tretyakoff and S. A. Smirnotr.
Peace Negotiations Suspended.
The peace negotiations at Brest'
itoysk have been postponed for few
days. Foreign Minister Trotzky Is
again in Petrograd and, according tc
the evening newspapers, is preparing
another note to the entente allies.
Antibolsheviki members Of the con
stituent assembly, 1t is reported, con
slider that it is now impossible to at
: tempt to reconvene tbe assembly II
Petrograd at this time and because O.
o transportation difficulties 1t Is incon
venient to go elsewhere. The proba
T. bility of meeting later at Kiev Is belni
e discussed. Many members of the as
i sembly have left Petrograd for thei
homes.
= The meeting of the all-Russian cor
T. gress of councils Of soldiers and worf
4 mems delegates has been postponed III
u tile Wednesday.
: Peace Demonstrators Arrested.
u london. Jan. 23.-Reports from Swi
y zerland mention the arrest of peat
- demonstrators at some places in Au
: tria. Clashes between hungry civil
o. ans and soldiers are reported, while
~ some instances, it Is said, the soldie
- refused to fire on the demonstrate
when ordered to do so. At Graf
where the trouble is acute, the soldie
u abandoned their loaded machine gu
!, to the rioters.
German newspaper reports that [
- Won Seydler, the Austrian premier. h
!, resigned and that Doctor Wekerle, t
Hungarian premier has determined
;, retire next month are not support
! by any official announcements.