THE RUSSIAN MIX UP.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 July 1918, Page 3

THE RUSSIAN MIX UP.

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THE EX-CZAR. COPENHAGEN June 23. The Wolf Press Agency, states that

the ox-C’zar wns nmrderecl in a train while! leaving Rkatrinburg after the % CV.ech-Slovnks had captured the town.

.MURDER NOT BELIEVED. LONDON, June 29. Lord Robert Cecil, interviewed said that the Government had no information regarding the murder of the exiCzar, or of the overthrow of the Bolsheviks. The latest Moscow messages are unofficial and are not believed.

A RUSSIAN EMPEROR. STOCKHOLM June 28. It is reported that Nikolas Nikolaie--vitoh was elected Emperor by the G r man authorities in Finland on Thurs■dnq. There is no confirmation of the rumour.

DETAILS LACKING. BERNE June 2 J -

The Ukraine Bureau at Lausanne, •states that the Bolsheviks at Ekatrinburg, after a short trial shot the exiCzar. Details aro lacking.

EX-CZAR’S FATE. (Received. This Pnv at B.SO. a.m.) LONDON, June 30 The px-Czar’s fate remains doubtful. Unconfirmed reports declare that he in safe.

RUSSIAN DEVELOPMENTS

OF CRITICAL NATURE

LON EON, June 20. British diplomatic circles believe that .■a critical situation has arisen in Russia, .and developments of the highest importance may be expected. The authorities accept reservedly, however, the latest sensational reports, pointing out they mostly come via Gork many or Austria. Dates are not nssignW ed to the events, which are based only on obscure Petrograd newspaper records. The overthrow of the Bolshei viks may be a German canard in order to provide a pretext to intervention. M. Kerensky’s friends in London discredited the report. Conflicting reports regarding the ex-Czar continue to arrive. ■ ■ Stockholm messages state that advices * from Darmsstadt on Thursday deny the rumour on the authority of the Russian Ambassador in Berlin. Vienna messages also announce a counter revolution in all parts of Russia, which is of a monarchial nature. The monarchists have considerable quantities of arms and ammunition.

BOLSHEVIK-GERMAN TREATY. MILAN, June 23. The Cracow, newspaper publishes a

text of the Bolshevik-German >Secret

Treaty, wherein the Bolsheviks agree |fl£not to interfere with Germany’s Polish policy. They pledge that they will crush any Polish violation in Lithuania and Ukraine, and will defend a Germanized Poland against the Allies.

AN EXPECTATION.

k LONDON, June 28. W The “Morning Post’s” Stockholm

correspondent states that n Swedish editor has returned from Petrograd. He says that German occupation is expected, unless forestalled by the Czechoslovaks, who have already mustered a hundred thousand well-disciplined troops.

A GERMAN REPORT’ . COPENHAGEN, June 28. German telegrams state that a counter revolutionist party have taken the provinces of Irkutsk, Habowak can Blagostshenk, where they have overthrown the local Soviet governments. The victory of the Czech and Slovakians is due to some of the Red Guards murdering their officers, then surrendF ering. | The Grand-Duke Michael is head of the anti-Bolshevik rising at Omsk, hut he has declined to take the Throno. He desires that an “All Russian” Popular Assembly shall decide the future- ruler.

AN AMERICAN COMMISSION. WASHINGTON, June 28. The personnel of the American Commission to Russia is about to be selected. The Commission' will study the industrial and economic conditions, with the object of discovering in what way the United States can assist Russian restoration.

A GERMAN MOVE. (Received, This Dav at 8.50. a.m.) -BERNE, June 30th. German newspapers state that Germany is preparing to intervene in Russia on the pretext of restoring order with Maximalist aid. IN SIBERIA. ( (Received This Day at 9.15 a.m.) ' AMSTERDAM, June 30th. 30 The Vossicbe. Zeitung announces that the’constitutiohal democratic leader Miluoff, formerly Foreign Minister, and, the Octobrist leader Gutchkoff have arrived at Harbin, and placed themselves head of the counter revolutionary movement. A Harbin correspondent confirms that Austro-German ex-prisoners have occupied Irkutsk.

BLACK SEA FLEET

(Received This Day at 9.50. a.m.) % AMSTERDAM. June 30. W A Berlin .semi-official despatch describing the events leading to the seizure of the Black Sea Fleet, alleges a contravention of the peace treaty by the continned activity of principal units who went to Novoeherknssh after the German occupation of Sebastopol. Acute differences of opinion aboard the ships led to the dreadnought Soobodnaja Rossa, being torpedoed by the destroyer Tertsch. while several destroyers were forced to run ashore. However, the dreadnought Volin and several modern destroyers returned to Sebastopol on 19th Junei where the entire Black sea fleet is still fit for war purposes and is now under German control.

ADVANCE IN FINLAND

' CHRISTIANIA, June 30. The “Tidende” states a body of Germans are advancing in Passic Valley, on the Finnish-Norwegian frontier. A Russian force from Potchenka is engaging them.

A DENIAL,

AMSTERDAM June 30.

Advices from Moscow via ; Berlin dated 34th June state the president of the Ekaterinburg Soviet says the rumours of the tmirder of the Ex-Czar are lies designed to incite the public.