THE RUSSIAN MIX UP.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 June 1918, Page 3

THE RUSSIAN MIX UP.

[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT.) A GREAT UPSET. . LONDON, June 9. The United Press correspondent at Stockholm, who recently escaped from Russia cables —“Unless the Bolsheviks are overthrown by the revolutionary democratic parties, there will he a counter monarchial revolution in Moscow and Petrograd. Germany is approaching the heart of Russia. A monarchist anti-republican plot was recently discovered at Moscow for simultaneous uprisings in Moscow, Petrograd and other centres, with German soldiers aiding. Tho city workers and peasants are deserting the-JBolsheviks, realising the terrible consequences of the Brest Litovsk peace. The financial industrial life of Russia is completely disorganised, the , Bolsheviks ruling by foregn bayonets. Petrograd population are getting an eighth of a pound of bread duty. COPENHAGEN, Juno 9.

Tho “Politiknn’s” Stockholm correspondent says advices from Russia indicate a great syndicate has been formed under tho Government auspices to control the whole imports and exports in order to transfer them from private interests to the state in the interost of trade with foreign countries. Exports will be based on the license system. The sydnicate comprises leading statesmen and financiers who possess great stores of metal, oil and hemp. Branches are being'established in England, Scandinavia and Amsterdam.

ANTI-SOVIETS. June 9th. Tho Anti-Soviet movement is assuming a threatening amongst the workers, who boycott the Soviet delegates, and even violently attacked them. A number of anti-Soviets delegates were returned by large majorities at the elections in several provincial towns. Fighting occurred in the vicinity of Rostoff between Bolsheviks and Germans, resulting in the latter occuying Battavask. Tchiechercne protested to Berlin against the German movement in the Don basin.

TROUBLOUS SIBERIA. (Received This Day at 1.20 a.m.) LONDON, June 11. Reuter’s Pekin correspondent- states after an indecisive engagement General •Scminoff’s forces on the 30th May retreated from Onon river owing to a flanking movement by enemy cavalry. Fugitives from Siberia report insurrections in most Siberian towns. Peasants and workment at Irkutsk aro joining the Czechs and Slovaks against the Soviets. Tho 'telegraphs arc interrupted in Western Siberia and food riots are occurring at Omsk.

WHAT THE BOLSHEVIKS SOLD LONDON, June 10.

A correspondent stales that vast quantities of Russian equipment, hundreds of horses, thousands of guns, and millions of shells, which the Bolsheviks sold at ridiculous prices, are appearing in France.

MUCH DISSENSION. “GREEN ARMY” MENTIONED. [AUSTRALIAN &, N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION] (Received This Day at 9.50. a.m.) LONDON, Juno 11. The “Daily Nows” Geneva correspondent reports a semi-official statement issued at Vienna warns the population against agitation by the loaders of smaller nations. An iron censorship on nows concerning Czech and Jygo. Slav nlovements indicates official nervousness, and the delicacy of tho internal situation. Newspapers at V ienna, Buda 1 est and Prague nre forbidden to publish Mr Lansing’s recent statement on the decision of the Versailles Council. Various newspapers violently nccuse England of being behind tho new menace. Mysterious allusions to the so-called “Green Army” crop-up in tho speeches of Austrian pan-Gormans who urge Government to crush the movement mercilessly. It understood the “Green Army” consists of sixty thousand fully equipped Slav soldiers filled with the spirit of revolt. Manv Slavs are deserting from the Austrian Army on the Italian front, and are joining the “Green Army.”