THE RUSSIAN MIX UP.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 June 1918, Page 3

THE RUSSIAN MIX UP.

PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT.., IN SIBERIA. (Received Yesterday at 11.20 p.m.) LONDON, June 8. A Harbin correspondent states the Bolshevik forces are concentrating against General Seminoff, including two thousand Austro-Germans. The Berlin press urges intervention in Siberia. ,

CORRESPONDENTS SILENT.

[“reutkb’b” telegram.]

ZURICH, June 7th. News from Russia shows that the position continues one of the utmost uncertainty and disorder. Petrograd correspondents are silent and nothing is known regarding the food and economic situation there,' or regarding the movements of the Finnish troops, ft is reported that they are mov ing towards the capital. German newspapers announce the imminent rupture of. negotiations with Russia and Ukraine. An agreement upon the frontier question is impossible. GERMANS IN FINLAND.

STOCKHOLM, June-7. The German paper, “Lokal Anzeirrer,” denies that the German agreement with Finland means the establishmnt of a Monarchy, and the placing of the Finnish Army under German officers. Meanwhile a German, Colonel Reerm, has been appointed Chief of Staff, and has began to reorganise the Finnish army Tinder German instructors. General Mannerheim, late commaner of the Finnish Army, has been pensioned off. His treatment is causing much ill-feeling. Manv oppose the idea of a Monarchy,, dreading the subjection of Finland to a German Prince. They say: “If we must have a King, let it be General Mannerheim, and not a German junker."

TURKEY’S AMBITIONS.

ON RUSSIAN TERRITORY.

AMSTERDAM, June 7. - The “Kreuz Zeitung’’ attacks Turkey for her ambition on the Black Sea coast of the Caucasus. It says that a union with the Crimea and Turkey, is quite impossible, because it wonild injure Ukraine’s vital interests. The pro vince of Tauridea belongs nationally and geographically to Ukraine, which seemß to be to gain a dominating position in the Black Sea, thus making a pan-Turkish idea paramount there, also to make the Caucasus a strong ramHence the German policy is confronted , with difficult tasks. n I A certain antagonism between IransCaucasia and Turkey already exists, and antagonism between Turkey and , Ukraine is arising while Turkey s ideas and relations with Persia are not in the least recognised by the latter. When Germanv entered the war. she guaranteed Turkey her present Irontiers, and will continue to fight for them, but Germany is thus entitled to oppose Turkish desires in the north-oast and which go far beyond the possibilities contemplated at the beginning oi the war. The paper concludes by arguing that the war must not leave antagonism between the German and Russian supreme war aims and mnke the formation of the present coalition against Germany impossible.

STARVING RUSSIANS. (Received This Day at 1.20 a.mO 1 LONDON, June 7. Hundreds of Russian officers are reduced to starvation. Some are selling newspapers and matches in the streets. BRUSSILOFF INJURED. (Received this day at 1.20 a.m.,) PARIS, June 7. German papers'state General Brusiloff . was recently wounded in .the leg i n Moscow, fighting with the Bolsheviks, and is living on charity. His leg was amputated. RUSSIA'S PLIGHT. I (Received This Day at 1.20 a.m.) COPENHAGEN, June 7. Tho “Vorwncrts” publishes a RusI sibrn Government's proclamation adj mitting the food situation is desperate, I and accusing the counter-revolutionaries I of disorganising the distribution. ,Government threatens to imprison people : I retaining grain. They are also arrangj ing for searches throughout the country for concealed stocks of food. SEMINOFF’S POSITION.

Received, this day at 8.45 a.m. HARBIN, June 7th. General Seminoff who owing dissensions at Harbin, left for Siberia on 29th May, reports the Bolsheviks crossed the river Onon and strongly pressed their attacks, which were stopped. An Austro-German cavalry brigade and four companies of infantry threaten Seminoff’s communications.