RUSSIA.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16856, 9 June 1920, Page 7

RUSSIA.

j ♦ j THE LONDON CONFERENCE, j j (By Cable—Press Association.—Copyright.) ; | (United Service.) j ! LONDON, June 7. j i The London correspondent of the; , "Petit Parisien" says that a wireless j message from Moscow instructs Krassin,, tho Bolshevik delegate in London, to: inform Mr Lloyd George that tho' Soviet agrees to liberate all the British prisoners in Russia, to abstain from commercial and other propaganda in Great Britain, and no longer to menace British interests in the Irient. I TROUBLE IIT PERSIA. J

| (Router's Telegrams.' j LONDON". June 7. ■ ! It is reported that the Persian Demo-' ! crats besieged the German Consulate ' at Tabriz on June 4th, demanding the ; surrender of the Pe sian Bolsheviks who | : had taken refuge there. Wustrow, the ; Consul, refused the demand and turned , i machine-guns on the crowds. j I The Democrats retaliated and com- ( [ peiled tho oriening of negotiations. j j It transpired later that Wustrow had , j committed suicide. Wustrow was ex- j J peiled from Teheran during tho war. He j i had been persistently inciting the j Bolsheviks and Turks against the Brit-! isfj. j (Reutcr's Telegrams.) (Received June Bth, 11.30 p.m.) LONDON, June 7. | In the House of Commons at question time, replying to Lord Robert Cecil and Captain Wedgwood Benn, Mr Lloyd George stated that a special meeting of the Council of the League of Nations would be held in London on June 16th, on the application of the Persian Government, to consider the situation created by the Bolsheviks' occupation of Enzeli. Doubtless tho opportunity would be taken to consider the dangers and difficulties in Central Europe. JAPAN AND SIBERIA. (Australian and X.Z. Cablo A&ori&timi.)

ana uaoio Association.) TOKIO, June 7. ; The Japanese have entered Nikolaievsk, where a Japanese force, refusj ing to obey the Bolshevik order to sur- | render its arms, was recently attacked I and destroyed by the burning of tho | building it occupied. The town wns in ashes, and there was no trace of the Japanese, but evidence existed of wholesale slaughter. The imbnrierl bodies of many women were discovered. The women had been outraged, and then brutally murdered.