INTERVENTION IN RUSSIA

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 238, 26 June 1918, Page 5

INTERVENTION IN RUSSIA

AN IMPERATIVE STEP VITAL ISSUE IN THE BALANCE New York, Juno 24. Mr. Herman Bernstein, tho American author, editor, and correspondent, who has coino from Russia, where lie has studied conditions, told an interviewer that unless tho Allies intervejio in Russia to savo her from Germany, the Allies may lose tho war. Nine-tenths of the population of Russia are in favour of Hied intervention, military and economic. A few divisions of troops arriving in Russia this summer would enable the nation to reorganise and resist Germany.. Tho conditions in Moscow and Petrograd are at their worst. Men are shut up by Bolshevik agents in order to terrorise- llio masses. Courts of Justice hare been discontinued, and people are executed without trials.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. [Herman Bernstein, whose home is in New York, is a Jeiv, of German birth, and an authority on Russian subjects. Ho went to Russia with his parents when nine years of afic, was educated there, and seven years later went to the United States, lie has carried out important journalistic work in various parts of Europe before and during the war, especially in connection with tho conditions of tho Jews in tho war-stricken countries, and has translated a number of Russian works into English.] BRITAIN READY TO HELP. London, Juno 24. In his ppcech in London, Mr. Lloyd George said that if Russia wanted her to do so, Britain was ready to stand bY her.—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn. ' PROMINENT BOLSHEVIK SHOT DEAD (Rec. Juno 25, .11.15 p.m.) London, June 24. Renter's correspondent i.t Petrograd states that :i prominent Bolshevik leader, named Volordarsky, was shot dead in tho street—Renter. . GEORGIA'S WARON THE TURKS

Pdoscow, June 24. Georgia (in Transcaucasia) has decided to continuß tho war against Turkoy. The Armenians havo defeated tho Turks, and are driving them towards the frontier. Germans aro guarding the Transcaucaeian railway.—Keuter.