ON THE EASE FRONT.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 July 1918, Page 3

ON THE EASE FRONT.

[PF.K PRESS ASSOCIATION. — COrYRIGIIT.]

UKRAINE STRIKE

AMSTERDAM July 24

Railway men in the Ukraine have struck. All traffic is at a standstill. The Minister of Railways threatened to put the railways under the Germ:-.. military if the strike continues. Local strike leaders at Rovno have been arrested. The disorder throughout the country is increasing.

NEW AMBASSADOR. (Received this day at 1.30 p.m.) AMSTERDAM, July 24. Berlin official.—Count Helfferich has been appointed Ambassador in Moscow. 'Two battalions of German soldiers accompanying him to guard, the Embassy.

THE EX-CZAR

(Received this day at 1.30 p.m.) - MOSCOW, July 24. The newspaper “Bejednota” states a single workman signed the ex-Czar’s death warrant, a single workman guard ed him and a single workman brought him from Tobolsk to Ekaterinburg. The paper “Wines” names these workmen, into whose hands history has delivered tho sacred person of tho Lord's, anointed. Nicholas the Last.

INTERNAL RUSSIA. AMSTERDAM, July 24th. Telegrams from Moscow state a genoval mobilisation began on the 17tb_ The Czecho Slovaks continue to advance astride tho railway between Ekaterinburg and Cheliabinsk. Soviets abandoned Orenburg' after denuding it of all valuables. A new Government has been formed there under General Duoff. A Hunger revolution is progressing at Uglitch, Lublin. Vijincnst, and Jaroslav.