Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-01-24
TROOPS ORDERED
TO STOP REVOLT
Petorgrad Put Under Martial
Law as Constituent Assem-
bly, Meets to Frame New
Government.
Am UPRISING is IMMINENT
Extremists, in Minority in Pop.
ular Assembly, Ready to
Use Power to Save
Themselves.
AN UPRISING is IMMINENT
BY United Press.

Ey United Press.
Petrograd. Jan. 19.-Petrograd was
declared under martial law today by
The bolshevist safety committee.
AN attempts at revolt are to be Wig
orously suppressed.' the decree de-
clared.
The martial law declared is evidently
designed 10 suppress n possible dis
orders incident to the meeting of the
constituent assembly. The constitu-
cnt assembly was elected last fan.
The social democrats and socialists
of the right wing were reported to have
obtained a majority against the eX-
tre,nists and bolshevists. The latter inn
mediate!y began efforts to block the
meeting of the assembly, holding 1t was
not representative of the real will OF
the people.
In its stead the b%olshevists pro-
pose a lawmaking body formed of the
membership of all Russian congresses
of workmen, soldiers peasants.
These bodies are to meet within the
next few days and it has been reported
that Lenine and Trotzky would seek
their amalgamation.
London. Jan. ia Russian wireless
message picked up here today i%nsuruct-
ed all peoples council in the land to
take most drastic measures to suppress
anarchy. The message recounted dis
orders and excuses at rilroad stations
and declared the railroads are in the
hands of mobs and that cars nave
been plundered. This sort of anarchy
has entirely ~disorganized t~ransporta-
ton and has created confusion, the
wireless stated.
Petrograd, Jan. 19.-The b~olshevists
express the belief that the recent at
4 . nly M iii y,rn n ,nrt of ~ ,,,t
revolutionary plot.
Lenine. it is stated, will probably
personally ope the constituent assem-
bly, meeting and demand approval of
the present government.
London. Jan. 19.-News from Russia
in the morning newspapers adds MOTH
ing to Yesterdays report of the Russo
Rumanian relations and The orlne M
perors' escape nor does it make clear
whether the constituent assembly will
meet today as reported previously.
Dispatches from Petrograd Indicate
that ermen in the city is likely if
he assembly meets. Large demon
strations are being prepared by the
alliance for the defense of the cons
stituent assembly which is issuing APP
peals 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.
Thinks Trouble Certain.
The correspondent of the Daily News
says trouble of some kind is almost
certain. The feeling among the soldiers
dispatch to the Daily Mail says, is be-
coming more divided and the govern
ment can not place full reliance on
them as it could a month ago.
Conditions of life in P~etrograd as de-
scribed by various correspondents suS-
rDr% tl,rt t1n ,,~~y,1n ,,r lil-nlyy 10 -.,y4
any opportunity TO express their dis
content. Food is sometimes impossible
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.
In telling of the feeling of unrest.
the correspondent of the Daily Mail
says that the tramways have not been
operated since Saturday. This has
caused great and incou-
venience to the public as the tranways
are the only means of transportation.
The workers nave to go to their tasks
afoot II with empty stomachs, and
return on foot in the evening. Electric
light is uncertain and sometimes whole
districts are in darkness, the central
power station having stopped from lack
OF fuel. The supply of paraffin which
is used for cooking and lighting has
stopped temporarily because the chief
depots are s~nowbound. The daily bread
ration is five and a quarter ounces.
which is said to be insufficient and
potatoes are selling at one ruble a
pound.
Arrest High Officials.
The manager of the Persian Dis
count Loan bank and several high Of
ficials OF the finance ministry and tho
treasury department. according to a
Reuter- dispatch have been arrested.
charged with aiding the strikers in
government departments.
General Korniloff, leader OF one of
the opposition factions is reported to
have been wounded in a fight between
mis- forces and bolshevists at Cher
aigov.
Nj. Bronsky. commissary for foreign
trade, says that a decree regulating
foreign trade will be issued shortly. 1t
will provide that trade will be al
lowed with countries only, where com
mittees are appointed to insure that
imports from Russia will not pass
through the hands of middlemen and
which will guarantee that goods thus