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Show ASSEMBLY Sailors Obey the Bolshe-viki Bolshe-viki and Strangle the Voice of the People by Ousting Duly Elected Representatives ; Raid Made at 4 'Clock in the Morning. RED GUARDS SLAY MANY AT MOSCOW All-Russian Railway Men's Congress . Sup-ports Sup-ports Conservatives by an Overwhelming Majority; Formation of Responsible Go vern-ment vern-ment Is Demanded. PETROGRAX), Saturday, Jan. 10. The constituent assembly has been dissolved by the Bolshevik authorities, it is officially offi-cially announced todaj i?ailor guards ; closed the assembly at 4 o'clock this morning and a decree of dissolution will be issued during the day, the official statement says. The text reads: , "When the constituent assembly voted against the declaration made by the president of the centra executive committee com-mittee after an hour's deliberation, the Boisheviki left the hall and were fol- i lowed by the Socialist-Revolutioniuts of I the left bn the assembly showing its un- ! willingness to approve the manner in which the peaco pourparlers were being conducted. At 4 o'clock this morning the constituent assembly was dissolved by sailors. Today a decree dissolving the assembly will be published." The all-Russian railway men's con- gress has passed by a vote of 273 to 131 a resolution supporting the constituent assembly and calling upon the people's commissioners to agree with the majority major-ity with a view to the formation of a government responsible to the assembly. From Moscow it is reported that many persons were wounded and others killed as the result of the Red Guard firing on demonstrators there in favor of the constituent assembly. The Japanese embassy here, in an official of-ficial statement, made denial of the reports re-ports that Japanese forces had been landed at Vladivostok. Regarding the peace negotlat ions a t Brest-Litovsk, Count Czernin. the Aus-tro-Hungarian foreign minister, is quoted here in an interview as declaring that if peace did not result from the negotiations negotia-tions it would not be "because of any intentions in-tentions of ours in regard to conquests." ENSIGN KRYLENKO PROMINENT AMONG THE BOLSHEVIK! LONDON", Jan. 20. After a single turbulent tur-bulent sitting, the Russian constituent assembly lias been forcibly dissolved by sailors, who apparently were authorized by the Bolshevik decree, which, however, at the time of the dissolution had not been procla.imed. The hostile attitude of the Maximal- j ists toward their opponents was evl- 1 denced in the epithets hurled at M. Tchernoff, the elected chairman of the assembly and M. Tseretelli, former minister min-ister of the interior and leader of the 1 moderate socialists, by linsign KryJenko, , the Boisheviki commander, and othet members of the Boisheviki, in the course j of the sitting. Whistling and cries of i "i raitor!" "scoundrel!" and "get out !" greeted M. Tsereteili's appea raii'-e oil ; the tribune, and when M. Tcht-rnoi f I threatened measures against the d!Murrj-crs, d!Murrj-crs, Krylenko shouted, "Try it; your clay is over." One member seemed even to havo attempted at-tempted the life of M. Tseretell i. who spoke for an hour, depicting in dark col- I ors the conditions surrounding the meet-I hig of the. assembly the dt-U-gates fa fed by threats and ba yonets. the country i disorganized, the people deprived of ho- i erty of person and of speech and menaced men-aced by famine, and with pea'-e negotiations negotia-tions being conducted on a basis lending to make revolutionary Russia a vass.il of German imperialism and a tool of international inter-national capitalists. He called upon the assembly to refuse, to submit to diclatoi-sliip diclatoi-sliip of ;the minority. DELA YED ACCOUNT OF OPENING SESSION OF THE ASSEMBLY PKTROGKAD, Friday. Jan. 1 v Niko- 1 !ai Lenine. the Bo&hevik premier, and others of the government commissioners, ; attended the opening session of the constituent con-stituent assembiy today. M. Sorokin, for-' merlv secretary to Kerensky. and other, social revnhn ionary members who had hen .arrested, were es for ted under guard from their prison to the Taunde. palace to take part in the meetinz. M. Tsereteili, former minister of the. interior, ahhoueh srioi.s'y iU. occupied a terft with the snfja ht-rc volutlond ry left. Xealy ha If tho assembly members were either tol- (Contlnned on Pago Three.) i lUSSil ASSEMBLY DISSOLVED BY FORCE (Continued from Page Oue.) diers or sailors in uniforms. Four women wom-en members, all Eolsheviki, were present. pres-ent. The TaiH'ide palace grounds were carefully care-fully guarded by sailors and admission was by ticket only. Within the palace perfect order was maintained. Before settlement of the question of registration registra-tion or the members, the social-revolu-tinists clamored tor admission to the assembly as-sembly hall, but M. Tchernot'f quieted them, urging that there be no violence and pointing out that the sailor guards wore merely obeying the orders of the Bolshevik leaders. After M. Sverdloff of the central executive execu-tive committee of the congress of workmen's work-men's and soldiers' delegates had called the assembly to order, a Bolshevik member mem-ber proposed the singing of the international interna-tional .Socialist hymn. All the social-revolutionists social-revolutionists rose and joined with -the Bolsheviki in the sinking. A.s a protest against the programme of the :ong'iess of workmen's and soldiers' sol-diers' delegates stipulating that all authority au-thority was vested in that body, the social-revolutionists proposed the cheer, "ail power to the constituent assembly." This was enthusia at ically given by t he soi -in 1-revolutionists a nd hissed by the Bolsheviki. |
