RUSSIAN AFFAIRS

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16256, 5 July 1918, Page 8

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS

A SENSATIONAL HEPORT. (By Cable.—Pre« Association.—Copyright.) (Renter's Telegrams.) (Received July 4th, 10.30 p.m.) AMSTERDAM, Jnly 3. The Ukrainian telegraph bnrean at Kieff announces that the Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovitch baa" been proclaimed Czar, and is marching with Czecho-Slovaks and Cossacks against Moscow. THE BLACK SEA FLEET. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Renter's Telegrams.) LONDON, July 1. In the House of Commons, Mr Bonar Law said that tho Russian sailors in the Black Sea had succeeded in destroying some of the vessels, but unfortunately a large part of the fleet fell into German hands. (Renter's Telegrams.) AMSTERDAM, July 2. In connexion with von Kuhlmann's declaration in his last speech in the Reichstag that Courland is already regarded as German territory, a telegram from Kovno significantly states that von Hindenburg has issued an order relative to the land question, paving the way for the German colonisation of Courland. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) WASHINGTON, July 2. Official French advices 6tat© that 40,000 German and Finnish, mercenary troops are concentrating at Viborg. in preparation for a drive on the Murman coast and Kola (on tho Arctic coast). THE EX-CZAR. COPENHAGEN, July 3. The Bolsheviks deny the murder of the ox-Czar. * (By 'Wireless.) LONDON, July 3. _ Supporters of the Czar profess impatience at the frequent alarms regarding the dynasty and are raising the question, of settling the fate of tho Romanoff famiy. Finland is expelling Britishers. (United Service.* (Received July 4thj 4 p.m.. LONDON, July 3. The "Daily Mail's" Harbin correspondent says:— "The Chinese are sending to Russia large quantities of cottons, blankets, fats, and other gcods vitally needed. Germany, since the removaj. of the embargo on exports, which was originally intended to secure a complete German blockade for East China, is acting in good faith, but there is reason to believe that goods passing Irkutsk reaSh the Germans. This danger would not have arisen if the Allies had intervened and controlled the western trade routes. (Router's Telegrams.) (Received July 4th, 4 p.m.) LONDON, July 3. Tho 'Daily Express'' Stockholm correspondent states that the two Siberian Governments, the eastern with its capital at Harbin, and the western with its capital at Omsk, have been united, with Tomsk as the new capital. The main military force consists of Czecho-Sl :vaks, besides several corps of volunteers. The whole movement is directed by Kerensky from outside. (Australian and • N.Z. Cable Association.) (Router's' Telegrams.) i (Received July 4th, 7.45 p.m.) - LONDON, July 4. A -wireless Russian official report states that a Government decree has been issued, nationalising all important industrial undertakings, togethor with all capital and property within the Empire. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) ' LONDON, July 2. The "Daily Chronicle's" Stockholm correspondent learns from a Russian source that the Bolsheviks, in response , to an urgent demand, have promised to disarm and hand 'over the Czech Slovaks to Germany. , The Bolshevik Government in Samara ] has been overthrown, and some mem> bers of thg Constituent Assembly have formed a Provisional Government. They have issued a proclamation stating they will exercise power until a Constituent Assembly meets. 1

Travellers state that the Ukraine peasant movement is rapidly growing against General Skoropadsky and the German General Staff, f i THE ROMANOFFS. PETROGRAD, July 3. The Archbishop of Perm has been arrested in connexion with the escape of the Grand Duke Michael, whose wife, the Countess Brascova, has been arrested at Petrograd The Bolsheviks are growing impatient at the frequent alarms, about the Dynasty, and are raising the question of settling the fate cf the Romanoffs in order to have done with them finally. The Soviet commissaries describe the reported murder of the ex-Czar as a base fabrication. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association^ (Received July 4th, 4 p.m.) COPENiMGEN, July 2. The German army in Finland is now at least 60,000. The troops are concentrated on the Russian frontier. The German Finnish army a t several points crossed the frontier.