GERMAN OFFENSIVE IN RUSSIA

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 231, 18 June 1918, Page 5

GERMAN OFFENSIVE IN RUSSIA

TREATY VIOLATED MOVE TO CONTROL NEW CENTRES London, Juna IG. The Press Bureau reports: A Russiau wireless report states: "Tho Germans are starting an offensive on the front from Sfalnika to Zhukovka, and have seized tlireo villages in tho neutral zone. Our troops rclircl. Increasing movement was observed later in Juno at .Tevstratovka, and tanks and cavalry took part in it. Our troops blew up a bridge at Jevsl.ratovka as a, reply to tho violalion of the treaty. Cavnlry has been dispatched to maintain connection with our troops wlio occupy tho line in the neutral zone. - Tho objoct of the Germans in creating 'frontier incidents' is to obtain tho railway centres cf Liski and Povorino."—Aus.-N.Z. C'ablo Assn. ANTI-SOVIET .STRIKE ORDERED. (Rec. June 17, 11.5 p.m.) Moscow, June IG. A general assembly of factory workshop delegates at Petrograd has ordered tho workers to strike as a protest against the policy of tho Soviet Government.—Router. ARMED GERMAN PRISONERS IN SIBERIA ESTIMATED AT 20,000. Tokio, Juno 16. M. Jules Destrce (Belgian Minister to Petrograd) has escaped from Russia. Ho said there wero 20,000 armed German war prisoners in Siberia.! "The trans-Siberian railway is now Russia's only communication with the outsido world, and this could easily bo cut by Gorman prisoners. I saw armed Germans at every station, ostensibly allied with the Bolsheviks."—Aue.-N.Z. Cable Assn. THE CZECHOSLOVAK ADVANCE (Rec. Juno 17, 5.5 p.m.) .. London, June 16. After being driven back from Penda, tho Czeoho-Slovaks advanced on Syzran, and took possession of the great railway bridgo across tho Volga,, which is tho principal artery of the Trans-Siberian communication.—Reutor. in thTcadcasds TURKS TAKE ADVANTAGE OF RUSSIAN CRISIS. (Rec. Juno 17, 11.5 p.m.) Moscow, Juno 16. Tho second cjsnsffljuenco of tho Government crisis is tho 'ipcreasing energy of tho Turkish offensive in tho Caucasus. The Caucasus Diot has deolared itself dissolved, and tho Republic is no longer | in existence. Turkey has proclaimed tnfe independence of Georgia. Tho Turks liavo launched a strong offensive at Akibalin— Router. japaneselmtervention URGED BY THE ENTENTE GOVERNMENTS. , . Tokio, Juno 16. Japan will increase tho Army to twenty-five corps. A correspondent states that the Entente Governments ato urging Japanese intervention in Russia. A Council meeting was held on the subject, and Allied representatives were present.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. APPEALS FOR INTERVENTION. (Roc. Juno 17, 7.50 p.m.) Tokio, Juno IG. The Belgian Minister at Polrogrud, addressing a meeting at Tokio, said that law-abiding elements in Russia earnestly desired salvation with the aid of J^apan. Delegates of the propertied classes at Sannira called on tho Japanese Consul, General Sato, and said that if tho Japanese Army advanced into Central Siberia the propertied c.lasse9 of all European Russia would rise and overcomo tho Soviets. Othorwiso tho only courso was to invito the Germans to control tho lawless Soviets. After that Russia would become buit a Gorman colony. Tho newspaper "Hochi" urges Japan to respond to tho appeal. "If she hesitates Germany will become masten of Russia, and the coloured races of the -world will lose tho favourable opinion of tho Japanese."—"Tho Times.'-'

DEATH OF ANTI-BOLSHEVIK FINNISH LEADER. (Bee. June 17, 5.5 p.m.) London, June 16. Advices from Finland state that Plekhanoff, tlio anti-Bolshevik lender, is dead. —Renter. \ '