THE RUSSIAN CHAOS
: V . MOSCOW GOVERNMENT'S BUDGET ENORMOUS INCREASE OF EXPENDITURE . By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright January 21. . The Moscow Government's Budget shows, an enormous increase of expenditure in the second half-year of 1918, due to. the war. The revenue was principally derived from a heavy; property and income tax, which showed a heavy fall towards the end of tho year, The Finance Commissary 'anticipates little ' revenue from that source in 1919:—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. FLIGHT OF THE LITHUANIAN . ' CABINET. \ Copenhagen, January 21. The majority of the Lithuanian Cabinet, which fled to Libau owirifj to tho .Bolshevik advance, have arrived at Bornhorm. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. BOLSHEVISM SPREADING EAST AND SOUTH. . (Rcc. January 25, 0.25 a.m.) London, January 22. The most recent information from Russia indicates that the Bolsheviki's plans are complete for extension of their propaganda, eastwards. The Bolsheviki. anticipate that India', China, and Southern Asia will fall an easy prey,, but General Koltchak's Omsk army temporarily cuts off the advance. Interventionists urge that prompt support should he sent to strengthen this barrier. Reports from the Crimea state that- Bolshevism is spreading in tho Ukraine, and only prompt intervention will prevent, tho whole of the Black Sea littoral falling into Bolshevik hands. Tho "Daily Chronicle's", diplomatic correspondent -stated that it is believed that tho policy of intervention in Russia is gaining ground. Lenin and Trotsky are anxious for peaeo in order to. gain breathing space to complete their plaiis for world conquest for Bolshevism on tho principle of benevolent penetration.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. BOLSHEVIKI MARCHING UPON GERMANY. • • (Rcc. January 25, 1.20 a.m.) ' Amsterdam, January 25. Reports that armies numbering mil-lions-of Bolsheviki are marching upon Germany are exaggerated. Not more than fil'tv- thousand- have crossed the • line between, Riga, Dvinsk,-and Vilna. —Reuter. ■ • ' • - v ••:
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 103, 25 January 1919, Page 7
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288THE RUSSIAN CHAOS Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 103, 25 January 1919, Page 7
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