RUSSIAN AFFAIRS

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16410, 2 January 1919, Page 7

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS

THE FATE OF THE ROYAL • FAMILY. (By Cable.—Preee Association.—Copyright.) (Ben tar's T«Jegi»n*.) PARIS, December 31. In the Chamber of Deputies M. Pichon stated that Prince Lvoff told him that the members of the ex-Czar's family wore tortured all night long before being finished off. Each member of the family, all of whom were assembled in one room, was placed in a chair, prodded with bayonets, and then murdered. The room next day was only a pool of blood. THE QUESTION OF INTERVENTION. PARIS, December 30. M. Pichon, Minister of Foreign Affairs, speaking in the Chamber of Deputies, said: Wo have gone to Archangel and Siberia, and cleared the Trans-Siberian Railway in order to preserve for ourselves the potential means of intervening at any moment. Intervention may be necessary in a country where people of our nationality may be in danger. We landed troops at Odessa and Batoum, but this was intended to last only -until the Roumanian armies _ were reconstructed. Tho Allies aim at preserving the healthy portions of Russia against the but the strictest orders have been given to the military chiefs that the effort necessary to crush Bolshevism must be made by Russian forces. There is not a single man arriving from Russia, not even tho most out-and-out Socialist, who has not warned me against the Bolshevik Government, and urged me to isolate this scourge. Any peace that allows Russia to continue to exist in a state of civil war. and with the present hateful and abominable Government, cannot be a peace of justice. We should be oonstnntlv threatened with the resumption of hostilities. (Australian and Ca'bl© Association.) (Received January Ist, 7.35 p.m.) CONSTANTINOPLE, December 31. Russian volunteers helped the French Armv advancing through Bessarabia towards Kieff. BOLSHEVTKS FORCED TO RETIRE. (Renter's Telegrams.) (Received January 2nd, 1.40 a.m.) STOCKHOLM, December 31. Esthonian troops from Krevel landed at Portakunoa, with British naval assistance, forcing the Bolsheviks to retire eastward. The British Admiral in the Baltic assured the Lithuanian Government that the Allies would do their utmost to resist the Bolshevik invasion.