GERMAN TREACHERY IN RUSSIA

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 172, 10 April 1918, Page 5

GERMAN TREACHERY IN RUSSIA

ENEMY CONTROLS NAVAL DEFENCES OF PETROGRAD Petrograd, April 8. By occupying Ekenas and Reval, the Germans have secured control 6? the whole naval defences of Petrograd. Treachery of the most flagrant kind played a leading part in the destruction of the Russian Fleet, and the Gor. mans used bribery on a big scale. Some of tho largest ships were taken to Kronstadt, but numbers of cruisers, destroyers, and auxiliary naval craft remained in Finnish paters. Some steamed to Reval, joined the Germans, and led the German cruisers and transports through tho mine- defences into Hango. Tho 1 German descent on Hango is regarded as a reprisal for tho Russian Fleet's alleged assistance of the Finnish Red Guards. Representatives of the Soviets declared that Germany is not only not evacuating the territories occupied until the signing of the Brest Litovsk treaty, but those since occupied.—-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. THE SITUATION IN SIBERIA Washington, April 8. The State Department has learned that there are fifty British subjects in Vladivostok. The landing party wur sent ashore solely to protect the British Embassy. Two hundred and fifty Japanese landed at G. 30, following the landing of two companies of Japancso on April 5. There- was no re-sistance.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable- Assn. BRUTAL ATTACKS ON JAPANESE. V/, ' (Rcc. April 9, 7.15 p.m.) Tokio, April 8. It is stated that the Japanese landing at Vladivostok was inevitable, owing to repeated brutal attacks on Japanese by so-called Bolshcviki, though some of the perpetrators were German prisoners.—Renter. BOLSHEVIK RESISTANCE TO THE JAPANESE ANNOUNCED. (Rue. April 9, 7.15 p.m.) Petrograd, April 8. The Government has proclaimed a state, of war throughout Siberia, and ordered the Siberian Soviets to organiso detachments of Red Guards to resist the Japanese. . . At Moscow the Commissary of Foreign Affairs formally protested to tho Allied representatives against the landing at Vladivostok, and demanding an immediate withdrawal <>T the forces. The Allies, replying, characterised the landing as a purely local affair, duo to local complications, which would soon be settled. —Renter. JJIUTISH LANDING CONFIRMED. (Rcc. April 0, 7.15 p.m.) London, April 8. The landing of British troops at Vladivostok is officially confirmed.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.