RUSSIAN AFFAIRS

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16427, 22 January 1919, Page 8

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS

OFFER TO THE ALLIES. (By Cable.—Prese Association.—Copyright.) (Australian and N. - Cable Association.) COPENHAGEN, January 17. M. Litvinoff has again sent a message to President "Wilson, offering to terminate the Bolshevist world propaganda if the Allies will enter into peace negotiations with Russia. RETREAT FROM REVAL. COPENHAGEN, January 17. The Bolshevists at Reval are hastily retreating owing to news of a counterrevolutionary movement having broken out in Petrograd. BOLSHEVIST FINANCE. {United Service.) (Received January 21st, 11.45 p.m.) STOCKHOLM, January 18. Petrograd advices state that the Bolshevist Budget forecast for 1919 totals 400,000,000,000 roubles. Tho deficit will be enormous. For example, the post and telegraph expenditure exceeds the revenue by over fifteen hundred million roubles. "WHOLESALE DEATH. (Australian and K.Z. Cable Association.) (Received January 216t, 11.20 p.m.) COPENHAGEN, January 19. Advices from Finland state that the Bolshevist Commissioner, Uritei, signed over , eight thousand death warrants. His successor, Boiki, has been dismissed because ho could not maintain the samo average. (Banter's Telegrams.) (Received January 21st. 11.20 p.m.) HELSINGFORS, January 19. Before the evacuation; of Dorfat, the Bolsheviste shot 225 men, including tho Bishop of Esthonia and four Lutheran pastors, and 80 women.