Evening star., 1918-01-21
Disorder and Threats Greet
Tchernoff; Lenine to Prevent
Delegates ReassembIing.
TROOPS GUARD PALACE;
PLAN NATIONAL CAUCUS
Officers Patrolling Deserted Meeting
Place Declare Council of Work
men and Soldiers Will Meet.
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press
PETROGRAD, Sunday, Janu-
ary 2o.-A. I. Shingaroff, minister
of finance in the Kerensky cabi.
net, and Prof. F. F. Kokoshkine
state controller under Kerensky,
were murdered in their beds last
night in the marine hospital.
LONDON, January 21.-After a single
turbulent sitting the Russian constitu.
ent assembly has been forcibly dissolved
by sailors, who apparently were au-
thorized by the bolshevik decree, which
however, at the time of the dissolution
had not been proclaimed.
The hostile attitude of the maxi
malists toward their opponents was
evidenced in the epithets hurled at NJ
Tchernoff. the elected chairman of the
assembly. and NJ. Tseretelli. former
minister of the interior and leader
of the moderate socialists. by Ensign
Krylenko, the bolshevik commander
and other members Of the bolsheviki
in the course Of the sitting.
Whistling and cries of traitor"
"scoundrel!" and get outw greeted
N. Tseretelli's appearance on the
tribune. and when M. Tehernofi
turbers. Krylenko shouted: "Try it;
your day is over"
One member seems even to have at
tempted the life of NJ. Tseretelli, who
spoke for an hour. depicting in dark
meeting of the assembly-the delegates
faced by threats and bayonets, the
country disorganized. the people de-
prived of liberty Of person and OF
speech and menaced by famine, and
with peace negotiations beins, con-
Quoted ona basis tending to make
revolutionary Russia a vassal Of Ger.
man imperialism and a tool Of inter.
nationat capitalists. He called upon
the assembly to refuse to submit tc
Urges Democratic Peace.
NJ Tchernoff adopted a milder tone,
assembly to take the initiative in con-
vokfng an international socialist con-
gress. with view to compelling the
governments to declare a democratic
peace.
The decision to dissolve the assembly
was taken at meeting of the central
executive committee of the workmen's s
and soldiers deputies. held late Satur-
day night, which was convened in order
to determine whether the assembly
should be allowed to meet on the
ground of its contra-revolutionary SEN
t1mentS and because it was not repre-
sentative of the people.
German newspapers received here
NJ fron ivor r;o
state of affairs on the Russian front.
The Vossische Zeitung declares the
Russian front line is melting away
through the desertions in their en-
have been daposed or have fled For
weeks past material has been trans
ported away. but much of it was aban-
doned and lies buried under the snow.
Guns, especially those of heavy caliber,
We're often left in their positions, no.
body troubling about them, while the
supply of ammunition has almost
ceased.
Rumanian Troops Hostile.
The vossische Zeitung says the Ru-
manian troops alone persist in a hostile
attitude, although they are observing
the armistice.
The Tauride Palace. where the con-
stituent assembly had met, was de-
serted Saturday, according to a Reuter-
dispatch from Petrograd. and a notice
posted on the door said that no one
would be admitted The officer COM
,manding the guard said that the con-
gress Of councils of workmen's and SOL
diers' delegates would meet in the
palace.
Premier Lenine informed deputa
tion from a provincial workmen's and
soldiers council that the constituent
assembly would not be allowed to re-
assemble anywhere. Instead, there
would be national convention. to be
formed by the forthcoming congress of
workmen's and soldiers councils.
Threaten Arrest of Tchernoff.
LONDON. January 21-Dispatches
filed in Petrograd yesterday saw the
bolsheviki are now hunting out the sun
porters of the constituent assembly. The
correspondent of the Exchange Tele
graph reports the suppression of all
non socialist newspapers, while Red
Guards are searching Petrograd for edi-
tions containing reports of the first
session of the assembly, which are
being destroyed. Search also is being
made for Boris Savinkofr, n member nf
the kerensky government, who is be-
lieved to be in Petrograd
According to one report, the bolsheyilzi
intend to arrest NJ. Tchernoff, who was
elected chairman Of the constituent as
sembly. On the other hand some of the
Red Guards have resigned. stating they
were misled into the belief that by Joining
the organization they would assist In fur
thering the cause of the revolution. where
as they considered the action of the boil
sheviki toward the constituent assembly
to be opposed to the principles Of liberty.
there is little chance of coun-
tering the measures taken against the
constituent QSanynh1y