BOLSHEVISM

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 54, 28 November 1918, Page 5

BOLSHEVISM

RAPID SPREAD CAUSING CONCERN

THE MENACE IN GERMANY

EBERT'S GOVERNMENT IN

DANGER

New York, November 26. The New York "Times" correspondent at Washington says tli.it the situation ill Germany and other European countries where Bolshevism is reported to be spreading with alarming rapidity causes the greatest concern to the United States Government. Dispatches received by tho State Department confirm the Press reports that the German Radicals have delivered an ultimatum to Ebert's Government, and are seriously threatening its downfall—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. COMMON PERIL A BASIS OF UNITY PROBABLE APPEAL TO THE , • ALLIES. London, November 26. The German Governments are endeavouring to find ft basis for unity. Most of them, including the Bavarian Governments, are firmly anti-Bolshevik, declaring that they .will ask the Allies' assist-, anco if Prussia pursues Bolshevik methods.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. | Copenhagen, November 20. There are reports that the Governments of North-west and South Germany, tho Rhine, provinces, and GermanAustria, are negotiating to secure au antiBolshevik combination—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. DESPERATE CRISIS ON THE EASTERN FRONT. Copenhagen, November 26. The situation on the German Eastern front is desperate. More than half a liiillion (German soldiers are marching through ice, snow, and mud to reach any railway station, while thousands of Russians t'roln Germany are monopolising railway trains and rolling stock. The Russians are without food, have insufficient clothes, and are plundering the food stores as they go along. There is great panic all along the routes.—Aus.-N.Z. Cabio ( Assn. BOLSHEVIK INVASION OF ESTHONIV New York, November 2G. • The Bolshevist have invaded Esthonia, the most northerly of the Baltic pro-vinces.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. A DREADFUL ORDEAL ' New York, November 26. Dispatches from Vladivostok state that 1321 survivors,' composed of former prisoners of the Bolsheviki and refugees, have arrived after a six weeks' train journey across Siberia under the most terrible conditions. All are half-starved and many are dying. Eight hundred died on tiie journey, some of whom were shot by the Bolsheviki, whilst disease and exposure killed many others.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.