ON THE EAST FRONT.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 April 1918, Page 3

ON THE EAST FRONT.

FINNISH OPERATIONS. PETROGRAD April 7. The German expedition in Finland consists of thirty-six vessels with trans port carryig fourteen thouand infantry. It is believed two vessels struck Russian mines. The of German ships destroyed several warships. Rus-so-German hostilities will not be renewed' unless tho Germans cross the Russo. Finnish frontier.

INTRIGUE IN MOROCCO. PETROGRAD Apr. 7. A Tangiers correspondent states simultaneously with the Somme offensive, Germans in Spain and Morocco tried to bring widespread plots to a head Five Germans visited Itaisuli’s stronghold, hitherto inaccessible to Europeans. Native agents in German employ were depatehed far and wide to rouse tbe tribes. Raisuli left the mountains and reinforced Abdul Malikh forces.

Other mercenaries occupied positions threatening French communications in the direction of Algeria. Germans bribed the natives laVishly and announced the fall of Calais and that Hindenburg was nearing Paris, but the natives have not yet been induced to move.

j RUSSIAN NAVY CAPTURED. TREACHERY OF RED GUARDS. (■Received This Day at 11.25. a.m.; PETROGRAD, April 8. R.v occupying Ekenas and Reval, the Germans have secured control of the whole of the naval defences of Petrograd. Treachery of a most flagrant kind played a. leading pilrt in the, destruetm.. of flic Russian Fleet. Germans bribed on a big scale the Rpd Guards. Practically 8,057 men and a fleet, including some of the largest ships, were taken a.t Kronstadt. A number of cruisers, destroyers and auxiliary naval craft mained in Finnish waters. Some steamed to Reval and joined the Germans, and let the'German cruisers and tra'imports through the mine defences into '

Hango. The German descent on Hango is i r ‘- terpreted as a reprisal for the Russia» Fleet's alleged assistance to Finnisl Red Guards.

GERMANY’S WORD. (Received This Day at 0.50. a.m.) PETROGRAD, April 8 Representatives of tbe Soviets declared that Germany not only is net evacuating the territories occupied if. til the signing of the Brest Litovsk Treaty, hut those occupied since.

LANDING AT VLADIVOSTOK. (Received +his dav at ,1.30 p.m.) ' WASHINGTON April 3. The State Department 'lias learm-d that fiftv British were included in )h" Vhulivostock landing. The party were sent ashore solely to protest thp British Embassy. “• A force of 250 Japanese -landed at 6.30. following the landing Of two companies of Japanese on sth April. Tliere was no resistance. V