ANTI-SOVIET PLOT IN RUSSIA

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 219, 4 June 1918, Page 5

ANTI-SOVIET PLOT IN RUSSIA

WIDESPREAD AND POWERFUL

MOVEMENT

MARTIAL LAW AT MOSCOW j

(Rcc. Juno 3, 11.30 p.m.)

London, Juno .1. The Press Bureau slates: A Russian : wireless. report .stales flint the Soviets' ! Executive decided on May 29 on the com- ; pulsorily calling to arms"of the workmen : and poorer peasants in Petrograd, Mos- ; cow, and the Kuban and .Don regions, declared martial law at Moscow, ordered wholesale arrests of counter-rcvolntionar- ! ies, and took vigorous anti-I'ross measures. The Executive says that a i great counter-revolutionary plot", support- ] ed by foreign capital, has been discovered j at lioscow and Petrograd, and is ramify- ; ing through llnssia. The plot was respon- ] si bio for tho mutiny of the Tchooslovak '. Corps, which captured a railway junc- | tion and lines. The large owners in other , regions are mobilising tlio richer peasants ' to resist the commandeering of.flour, and i their agents in tlio cities aro inciting j the starving masses against the Soviets. - j The Soviet is confident that the calling j up of the starving people in the indus- [ tri-il anil corn-growing provinces will frus- ; train tho plot—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.- j Router. . . i STATE OF SIEGE IN MOSCOW ; Copenhagen, Juno 2. i It is reported from lielsingfore that -j a state of siego has been declared in : Moscow—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn. I GERMANS iINURTILLERY \ Washington, June 2. The Stale Department's advices from I Petrngrad state that the new association j of Ukrainian peasants has revolted and is setting fire to the woods, destroying ; crops, and refusing to give up agricultural implements to tho German soldiers, j who are using artillery to attempt to suppress the revolt—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo . [ Assn. '| EXCHANGE OF TERRITORY BETWEEN RUSSIA. AND FINLAND. ! (Rce. Juno 3, 8.30 p.m.) 1 London, June 2. . A wireless .Russian report states: M. I Mehitchcrin has informed Hew Mirbacb. that the Kur-siiin Government will accept j Germany's proposal that Finland should ' cedo to Russia Fortino and Eaivola, ' wliilo Russia agrees to cede to Finland j the western pari; of tho Murinim coast, j with a scat outlet, in the hope that arm- ' ed -complications and bloodshed may bo j avo'ded— Aus.-N.Z. Cablo"Assn.-Rcuter. ;