ON THE EAST FRONT.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 May 1918, Page 3

ON THE EAST FRONT.

[PEß FBESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYBIGBT.) RUSSIAN ROYALTIES. PETTROGRAD, May 26. The German Embassy announces that, the Dowager 'Empress of Russia shortly proceeds to Denmark and the GraauA Duke Nicholas to Montenegro. HELP FOR RUSSIA. (Received Thie Day at 11.25. a.m.; LONDON, May 26. It is understood that Allies are ser-

lously considering now to re-esiaonsn. Russia. The situation is not regarded as hopeless. America will decide the mapner of Allied assistance and how it can best be given. MARCEL HUTIN’S ADVICE. (Received This Day at 11. Pa. a.in.) . PARIS, May 26. Marcel Hutin writing in the “Humanite” says no delusions should be nourished. The Germans although lim-

itinp; their ambitions to Irkutsk could from these dominate the whole line to the Pacific, and could paralyse any attempted Japanese intervention. Japan’s intervention is urgently necessary. Japan is willing to begin operations, the moment . the Anglo-Ameri-cans say the word. The Russian people would accept intervention with guarantees that Japan is seeking neilier territory, or conquest to restore

Czarism, nor take land from peasants. FOOD RIOTS. .'Received This D«v at 11.2 ft. a.m.l MOSCO, May 27. There were food riots in several provincial towns. There were serious rioting at Nijni Novgorod, where tea thousand employers at Sormovo workei declared a one days strike and passed a. resolution in favour of the Constituent Assembly, and -against the Soviets.

GERMAN RULERS

(Received This Ttnv nt 11 26. a.m.) LONDON ,May 26 . German authorities of some of tlio occupied Russian territories have arreatcu a number of the Austro-German war prisoners who joined the extremist political organisation. General Arnold shot several hundred German internationals and has prohibited war prisoners from participating in the Bolshevik organisation .