RUSSIAN MIX-UP.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 December 1918, Page 3

RUSSIAN MIX-UP.

RUSSIAN REPORTS(Received this day at 1.30 p.m.) COPENHAGEN' December 23. Reports from Russia show many popple are joining the Bolsheviks Army, as the only chance of securing the moans of subsistence. During three j weeks in November three hundred thousand recruits joined in Petrograd and Moscow ajope. Discipline is of the severest even small thefts are piuiished with death. The Swedish Consul from Reval has arrived at Stockholm and asked for ssisfajice against Bolshevik invasion in Esthonia. TJm position ip Esthonia is critical. The Foreign Minister said the Reichstag would never permit the Swedish Army to be sent out of the country. The consul is now seeking British assistance.

REVOLUTIONARY. COPENHAGEN December 23. Scliauenuis ex-Danish Minister at Petrograd states Radek has established ‘ a special revolutionary schoool in Moscow where agitators from all countries including Chinamen and Irishmen ire I being trained in revolutionary ideas. Afterwards they return to their respective, countries as missioners of the revolutionIN SIBERIA. (Received this day at 9.25 a.m.) NEW YORK, Dec. 26. Despatches from Vladivostock says General Semenoff has agreed to recognise the Kolchok regime, provided lie retired in favour of General Fenkino Hetman of tho Don Cossacks, STRONG INDIGNATION. '’Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, Dee. 26. The “Times” Paris correspondent says there is strong indignation in official circles at the Allied Governments deciding not to intervene with a large force in Russia. AMERICAN CONSUL ARRESTED. (Received this day at 10 15 a.m.) WASHINGTON December 26. Ifc is reported fhat Roger Treadwell, the American consul was arrested at Tashkent at the instance of the Bolsheviks or some unknown reason. Th 0 State Department is hoping to secure his immediate release,.