THE MURDER AT THE EMBASSY

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 300, 7 September 1918, Page 7

THE MURDER AT THE EMBASSY

BRITISH GOVERNMENT TAKES :,. ACTION .

BOLSHEVIK AMBASSADOR IN LONDON ARRESTED

London, September 5. Owing to the Bolsheviks murdering and mutiliiiing Captain F. N. A. ,Ci'omio .(British Naval Attache at Petrograd), and-; , arresting Britisli subjects between the ages-of eighteen "and forty, the Britisli Government has arrested Litviuoff ■ (the Ambassador in London) and hia staff.

Captain Cromie was in command of a, submarine in the Baltic in 1915, and' destroyed the German cruiser Undine (November 7) and other vessels, and was also responsible for the destruction of the British submarine flotilla in the Baltic when the Germans got possession of the Russiaibfleet.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Aan. . \ . ■ BOLSHEVIK ATTACK ON BRITISH CONSULATE. Washington, September 6. The Bolshoviki havo attacked tho British Consulate at Moscow.—Aus.N.Z. Cablb Assn. THE TURNING OF THE WORM TURKISH PROTEST TO GERMANY. (Rec. September 6, 7.25 p.m.) . Berne, September 3.

Turkey-has sent a lively note to Berlin protesting againstthe conclusion of the additional terms to. the Brest Litovsk treaty as being injurious to Turkish interests in the Caucasus,— Ausi-N.Z. Cable Assn. ' '.- THE NEW REVOLUTION ASCENDANCY IN THE UKRAINE. (Rec. Septembe'rG, 7.25.p.m.) ■Copenhagen, September 5.

The newspaper "Isvestia" states.that the Ukrainian revolutionaries have taken Nijnjnovgorod and other cities, and'also the town of Tschernoff, where they killed the whole German garrison of fifteen hundred, but retired when German reinforcements arrived. Sanguinary fighting has occurred in the provinces of Poltava, Tschernoff, and Kieff, where the revolutionaries, number thirty thousand. The ' Ukrainian authorities in many places have iltd. The Hetman, Skoropadsky, has arrived in Berlin and visited the Kaiser.— Reuter. ' ..■