THE RUSSIAN MIX UP.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 June 1918, Page 3

THE RUSSIAN MIX UP.

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AMERICA TO HELP.

NEW YORK, June 27

Tho Now York “Times' 1 Washington correspondent learns that America is considering plans to assist- Russia without delay, but tho assistance will not be military. It will aim at building up of a commercial, industrial and agricultural Russia. The American Government will consult the Allies and na them to assist in the economic upbuilding. UNCONFIRMED. [LONDON TIMES SERVICE—COPYRIGHT] LONDON, Juno 27. Further unconfirmed reports camo from Swedish sources of the murder of the ex-Czar. The story is regarded at Copenhagen as a canard. It is, also reported the Czarevitch is dead. IN NORTH RUSSIA. j NEW YORK, June 27. 1 Docch Fleuret, cabling to the New j York “World” from Murmansk, in ; Russia, says the Finns and Germans are | steadily advancing in Russian territory towards Murmansk railroad, advancing , along the Tornoo and Koeda rivers mid from Kopin via Kem river. The forces . < are now approaching in the direction ; - of the White Sea. 1 j .

Councils of Workers and Peasants • in northern Russia realise they can only bo saved from German enslavement by Allied help. Germans is not keeping the Brest-Litovsk treaty, as the Ger-. mans took part in operations against Britain both in Ukraine and Finland. The Germans present endeavour is to cut off all communications between Petrograd and tho Arctic ports. A JOINT CONFERENCE. NEW YORK, June 27. f A United Press Stockholm message says the representatives of Siberian, Chinese, and Japanese Governments are holding a conferonee for the purpose of bringing Chinese and Japanese to aid in the war against Germany in Siberia. W Japan is asking privileges in the exportation of minerals from Siberia, in return for assistance.

A GREAT UTSET.

NEW YORK, June 27. -Bolsheviks are sending Red Guards to villages to forcibly seize the bread from peasants. Battles are raging at Olenska, Viaka, Kurah, Sinibir.sk, Kasan, Koabromakasak of peasants and san, Kosbromnkasan, Ruizian, and Orloff districts. Hundreds of peasants and Red Guards were killed. Baltic sailors in Potrograd resolved and demanded the abdication of the 80lJ^sheviks. Workers employed at munitions and powder stores at Odessa, banded to prevent their seizure by the Germans. . Many were killed.

CAPTURE OF MOSCOW

BY GENERAL KORNILOFF.

BOLSHEVIKS OVERTHROWN

Received, this day at 8.45 a.m. LONDON, June 18

General Korniloff, is reported to have captured Moscow, and to have overthrown the Bolshevik Government. Lenin and Trotsky are reported to have flod to tho Muran coast.

A DESPERATE SITUATION

(Reuter’s Telegram.)

HELSINFORS, June 27tli

The situation in Russia is desperate. The overthrow of the Bolshevik regime is expected soon to bo accompanied by bloody street fights. The Red Guards at Tetrograd are already firing on the population for the slightest excuse. -* The new Siberian Government muses to provide Russia with grain, while Lenin remains ruler. Hundreds are. starving to dentdaily. . , The peoples’ only cry is lor bread. Thousands of Russians are digging trenches from Pergola to the Finnish Gulf. The reason is unknown, but r inland is watching the movements with anxiety. ALLIES AID FOR RUSSIA. LONDON, June 27. In tho House of Commons, Lew' Robert Cecil said that the Allied Governments were constantly discussing measures of saving Russia from German invasion, domination anu exploitation, but he was unable to make a definite statement at present on the question of intervention.