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Show Bolsheviki Order Sailors to Break Up the Meeting of People's Representatives. , PETROGRAD. Saturday, Jan. 19. The' constituent assembly has been dissolved by the Dolshovlk authorities, authori-ties, it' is officially announced today. Sajlor guards closed the. assembly, at 4" o'clock tlils morning and a decree of dissolution will be issued during the day, tho official statement snys. Tho text reads: "When tho constituent' assembly voted against tho. declaration made by the" president of tho central executive committee after an hour's deliberation, delibera-tion, the Bolshcviki left the hall and wore followed by tho Socialist-Revolutionists of the left on the assembly showing its unwillingness to approve the manner in which tho peace pourparlers pour-parlers were being conducted. At 4 o'clock this morning the constituent assembly was dissolved by sailors. Today a decree dissolving tho assembly assem-bly will bo published." The all-Russian railway men's congress con-gress has passed by a vote of 273 to 61 a resolution supporting the constituent con-stituent assembly and calling upon tho people's commissioners to agree with the majority with a 'view to the formation of a government responsible responsi-ble to tho assembly. From Moscow It is reported that many persons wero wounded and others oth-ers killed as tho result of the Rod guard firing on demonstrators there in favor of tho constituent assembly. The Japanese embassy here, in an official statement, made denial of the reports that Japanese forces had been landed at Vladivostok. Regarding the peaco negotiations at Brest-LItovsk, Count Czernin, - tho Austro-Hungarian foreign minister, Is quoted here in an interview declaring that if 'peace did not result from the negotiations It would not bo "because ot any intentions of ours in regard to conquests." |