Evening star., 1918-01-18
TROUBLE EXPECTED
# ASSEMBLY MEETS
Large Demonstrations Plan
ned in Petrograd-SoIdiers
Dividing Their Allegiance.
UNREST IS MORE MARKED
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, January 1S.-News from
Russia in the morning papers add,
nothing to yesterdays report of tht
Russo-Rumanian relations and tho for
mer emperor's escape. nor does 1t make
clear whether the constituent assembly
will meet today as reported previously
Dispatches from Petrograd indicate
that ferment in the city is likely If the
assembly meets.
Large demonstrations are being pre-
pared by the alliance for the defense
of the constituent assembly. which is
issuing appeals to the people in the
streets and is carrying on agitation
in the military barracks and among the
crews of the warships in the Neva.
Trouble Almost Certain.
The correspondent of the Daily News
says trouble of some kind is almost
certain. The feeling among the SOL
diers of the Petrograd garrison, a
Petrograd dispatch to the Daily Mail
says, is becoming more divided and the
government cannot place full reliance
on them, as it could month ago.
Conditions of life in Petrograd as
described by various correspondents
suggest that the people are likely to
seize any opportunity to express their
discomfort. Food is sometimes impos-
sible, and always difficult. to procure.
says the Daily News correspondent. who
adds that Petrograd has forgotten the
taste Of milk. though it is possible now
and then to obtain an inferior grade OF
butter at 10 rubles a pound.
Annoyance and Inconvenience.
In telling of the feeling OF unrest.
the correspondent of the Daily Mail
says that the tranways have not been
caused great annoyance and inconven-
fence to the public. as the tramways
are the only means of transportation.
The workers have to go their tasks
afoot and with empty stomachs, and
return on foot in the evening. Elec-
tric light is uncertain and sometimes
whole districts are in darkness, the
central power station having stopped
from lack of fuel. The supply of par
affin. which is used for cooking and
cause the chief depots are snowbound.
The daily bread ration is five and one
quarter ounces. which is said to be in
sufficient. and potatoes are selling at
one ruble pound.
High Officials Arrested.
The manager Of the Persian Discount
Loan Bank and several high officials of
the finance ministry and the treasury
department. according to Reuter- dis
patch, have been arrested, charged
with aiding the strikers in the govern
ment departments. Gen. Korniloff.
leader of one of the opposition fac
tions. is reported to have ben wounded
in fight between his forces and boil
sheviki at Chernigov.
NJ Bronsky. commissary for foreign
trade. says that a decree regulating for
will provide that trade will be allowed
only with countries where committees
are appointed to insure that imports
from Russia will not pass through the
hands of middlemen, and which will
that goods thus imported
will not be subject to speculation or re-
expectation.
Lenine and Trotzky at Odds.
STOCKHOLM. January 1s.-Relations
between Premier Lenine and Foreign
Trotzky are growing more
daily. the Petrograd corre-
spondent of the Helsingfors Huvud-
be displeased both at the way Trotzky
occupies the public eye
and at his foreign policy, which Lenine
believes Is contrary to the best inter-
ests Of the Russian revolution.
Trotzky formulates his own foreign
policies, without regard to what Lenine
advises and often without submitting
questions to the premier.
Friends Of Lenine. the correspondent
adds. declare that he intends to submit
workmen's and soldiers delegates, in
order to force a vote Of confidence or
lack of confidence.
Kerensky in Sweden.
PETRoGRAD. January 1s.-The We
chernia Vremya, which resumed pub
lication Tuesday afternoon for the
nrst slime since the bolshevik revolu-
tion. says Alexander P. Kerensky now
Is in Sweden. The newspaper asserts
that Kerensky fed to Novo Tcherkask,
Gen. kaledines' capital in the Don Co.'S
sack region. after the defeat of the
Kerensky forces at Gatchina, arriving
there early in December.
Kerensky. according to the vechernia
Vremya. sought an interview with
kaledines. but the hetman Of the Don
he was too busy" to see the once most
popular man in Russia. Kerensky. dis
guised. then fed to Finland, previously
having spent the night in Gen. Rod
Later he made him way into Sweden.
Siberian Towns Taken.
The bolshevik forces have seized
Irkutsk, eastern Siberia. after a ten
day battle. All the Cossacks and mill
tary cadets were disarmed and the
authority of the workmen and SOL
diers' government proclaimed.
Orenburg. capital of the Siberian
province of that name, also has been
occupied by the bolsheviki.
the edict of the Siberian republic OF
Omsk. prohibiting the export Of food
to Russia until the constituent assem-
bly, Is called to order. became effective
December 20.