RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.
WHOLE COUNTRY IN A FERMENT.
(By Cable.—Press Association. —Copyright.) (Renter's Telegrams.) (Received July 10th, 7.30 p.m.) LONDON, July 9. Telegrams from Russia are mostly coming from Berlin. They are scrappy and hazy. Apparently the whole country is in a ferment. Further fighting occurred at Omsk and there has been heavy fighting with the Cossacks in the Don region. The situation at Moscow is obscure.
The Bolsheviks are terrified at possible Gorman reprisals for the mprder of Count Mirbach and continue wholesale arrests of the leaders of the parties opposing their reign. (Auati .lian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received July 10th, 11.50 p.m.) AMSTERDAM, July 9.
According to Holland's News Bureau Lenin and Trotsky have taken refuge in the Kremlin, and tie soldiers are guarding all th© streets leading thereto.
• The Social Revolutionaries have arrested the Prefect of Police, and are holding him as a hostage.
(Received July 10th, 5.15 p.m.) NEW YORK, July 9
Mr Shaplin, the Unted Press correspondent at Stockholm, says that the Bolsheviks will either accept the German demands arising out of Count Mirbach's assassination or abdicate.
AMERICA AND INTERVENTION
(Received July 10th, 8.15 p.m.) NEW YORK, July 9
The United Press learns from an authoritative, though unofficial, source at Washington, that America will send an economic mission to Russia; also troops to protect the mission, but there will bo no military intervention at pre- ; sent.
THE MIRBACH MURDER
{Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.)
AMSTERDAM, July 9. Messages from Moscow state thai) Count iUirbach's assassins fled to a building occupied by Social Revolutionaries, who were defending the place with machine-guns and rifles. The murder was tho signal for a great counter-revolutionary _ movoment. The rebels attacked and seized a portion of the city, including the central telegraph office. The B-olsheviks claim to have arrested tho leaders of the revolt, M. Savinkoff, who was Kerensky's Minister of War.
(United Service.!
PARIS, July 9. The "Petit Parisian's" Petrograd correspondent is of opinion that the murder of Mirbach was the work of agents of extreme Monarchists, .with the object of forcing the Germans to seize Petrograd and Moscow. It may result in the removal of Gorman divisions from the West to police Russia.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS
(Renter's Telegrams.) (Received July 10th, 5.5 p.m.)
VLADIVOSTOK, July 9,
The Czecbo-Slovaks, under General Dietriohs, after disarming the Bolsheviks here, moved westward and encountered near Nicholaiovsk a large force of Austro-German prisoners and Bolshevik troops. The battle resulted in a heavy enemy defeat, and General Dictrichs occupied Nicholaievsk and disarmed the population. TOKIO, July 9. Despatches from Yladivostock state that furious artillery firing: and street fighting preceded the overthrow of the Soviets. A Bolshevik steamer received many shots and escaped in a crippled concQtion. AMSTERDAM, July 9. The Ukrainian Government has resigned. LONDON July 9. The "Daily Express" Stockholm correspondent learns from an authoritative source that Germany will demand the right to police Moscow and PetrofCrad, also the passage of Germans to Murman via Petrograd. ("The Times.") AMSTERDAM, July 9. The "Cologne Gazette," reports that a distinguished German, who has returned from the Far East, describes the Ozecho-Slovaks as a splendid force. The poTver of the Bolsheviks everywhere is waning, he says, and it no longer exists in Siberia.
(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received July 10th, 5.5 p.m.)
LONDON, July 9,
The newspapers accept with reserve the Bolsheviks' statement that the counterrevolution has been suppressed, Sunday's reports, the latest so far received, not supporting their statement.
The newspapers demand decisive A 1 lied action.
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16261, 11 July 1918, Page 7
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