THE ANTI-SOVIET PLOT

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

THE ANTI-SOVIET PLOT

BOLSHEVIK OFFICIAL HANGED BY THE COSSACKS r Moscow, Juno 3. Tho anti-Soviet Cossacks havo hanged the president of the Bolshevik Commissioners in tho Don Republic.—Reuter. SECRET FINNISH-GERMAN CONVENTION FOR MONARCHY UNDER GERMAN DYNASTY. Stockholm, June 3. A secret . Finnish-German Convention exists, by which Finland engages to establish a monarchy under a Gorman dynasty, to permit Germany to use the Aaland Islands or n place on tho opposite Const us a naval base, and, to use a Finnish harbour in the Arctic us a commercial port. Finland will undertuko efficient measures to combat tho anarchist movement. Germany will maintain troops in Finland till the conditions are fulfilled.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assa IMMEDIATE EXPULSION OF RUSSIANS ORDERED. Moscow, Jnne 3. The .Finnish Government has made a decree ordering the immediate es pulsion of Russians under heavy penalties. Many liavo been arrested.—Reuter. THE BREST LITOVSK " PEACE:' SPECIAL COMMISSION ON UNDECIDED QUESTIONS. Moscow, Juno 3. The Germans have acreed to the Russian proposal to set up a special commission to deal with cjucelions left undecided by tho treaty cf Brest Litovsk. Tho commission will meet at Moscow, and will discuss tho situation in tho Caucasus, the indenendence of tho Crimea, the political situation Li Finland and Estland, aud economic relations. —Aus.N.Z. Cable Asen. DEMAND BY AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN SOCIALISTS. Amsterdam, June 3. A telegram from Vienna states that a representative conference of Austro-Hun-garian Socialists demanded the immediate convocation of tho Reichsrath to consider tho treaties of Brest. Litovsk and Bucharest, whioli tho conference declared are a violation' of the principles of peace by understanding. It resolved to • request tho Central Governments to o£Eer a ceneral peace on the basis of the establishment of a Leaguo_ of, with general disarmament, international arbitration courts, thu renunciation of annexations, and the grafting of full.selfdetermination to the border peoples torn from Russia.—Renter. ]