THE RUSSIAN MIX UP.
[per press association. COPTRIGHT.j A DOUBT EXPRESSED. LONDON, Aug. 13. Official circles in London are unable to confirm the flight of Lenin and Trotsky and doubt the accuracy of the report. THE ENTENTE’S DEMANDS. LONDON, Aug. 13. An important conference concerning Russian affairs is being held at. Ger- , man Headquarters, at which Von.' H intze and Helffcrich are present. [ The “Tageblatt” demands the im- ' mediate summoning of the Reichstag to discuss the Russian, Finland, Ukraine, Poland and Moscow situa- i tion.
RISING IN UKRAINE. COPENHAGEN, Aug 13. Several thousand a'rmod Ukrainian peasants are resisting German attempts to seize the harvest, and sanguinary engagements are proceeding. Fresh German troops have been ordered to the Ukraine to suppress the beginning of a revolution.
BRITAIN RECOGNISES THE CZECHO-SLOVAKS. LONDON, August 13. The Press Bureau states that the Government has issued the following declaration: “Britain regards the Czecho-Slovaks as an allied nation and recognises the unity of the Czecho-Slovaks armies as Allied belligerents, waging regular warfare against Austro-Hungnry and Germany. Britain also recognises tin* Czeeho-Slovak National Council as present trustee of future Czeclio-Slovak Government, to exercise supreme authority over this army.
a new nation. RECOGNISED BY BRITAIN. Received, this day at *.40 a.m. NEW YORK, Aug. 14. The “New York Times” Washington correspondent says the British Government recognition of the Czechoslovaks as a national, and their armies, as an Allied force waging war against the Central Powers, is the fore-runner of similar action bv the United States.
RUSSIAN NEWS. (Received This Dav at noon.) AMSTERDAM, August 14. The Soviets have seized all Czechoslovaks vessels on the Volga, cutting 'off tho Czecho-Slovaks from Headquarters at Simbirsk. A battle is raging in the middle Volga. The Soviet army numbers one hundred and. fifty thousand. German papers state the Soviets General Executive Committee has appointed a Dictatorship consisting of Lenin, Trotsky„ and BengvicfF, who are empowered to take all measures to crush their enemies.
OFF TO PETROGRAD. (Receivofi T!,i« Dav',.* 12.25. n.m.t HELSINGFORS, Aug. 24. German troops are marching on Petrograd.
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