RUSSIAN MIX-UP

Hokitika Guardian, 29 January 1919, Page 2

RUSSIAN MIX-UP

fAUSTRALIAN & S.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION] THE RUSSIAN SITUATION. PARIS, January 26. 3lr Fraser says the fact that M. :Soavinus himself is an advocate of (military intervention in Russia and declared that Russians could not bo trusted to fight the Bolsheviks even with the support of Allied troops the effect on the Russian decision. Moreover the Dominion representatives emphatically declined to send any of their troops to Russia. It is reported Bolsheviks somewhat reluctantly consented to send delegates to the Sea of Marmora.

A PATRIARCH’S DENUNCIATION. (Received This Day at 8.30 a.ra.) COPENHAGEN, January 26. The Patriarch of All Russia, in a scathing denunciation of Bolsheviks, based on tli© text:—“They who live by the sword, shall perish by tho sword,” declared the Bolsheviks had forced the country into unheard of fratricidal strife. All live in terror of plunder, rapine, imprisonment and death. Hundreds of defenceless innocents were made to rot for months in dungeons, or die on the scaffold without trial. Bishops, priests and nuns were slaughtered on vague charges of counter rerevolutionary actions. The Bolsheviks taught them to ignore mass, and to carry on open bare-faced robbery. Famine menaces the town aud villages.

A RUSSIAN PROTEST. (Received this day at 9.25 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 26. Tchitcherin, the Russian Peoples Com missioner, wirelssed the newspaper “Le Populairo’’ begging for exact information in reference to the improbable story that it is the intention of the Great Powers to confer with the Russian Government. He says a meeting on a solitary island will make tru e publicity impossible, but a territorial arrangement- might be brought about if the Conference with the Russian Government were conducted by arbitration through a third Power. It is impossible to stop fighting.

FINNISH CAPTURE. COPENHAGEN, January 26. Finnish volunteers captured Narva The Red Guards plundered the clty beforo it was taken. They murdered the Bourgcoisc who could not escape, and also killed the ' entire' population of the neighbouring villages, owing to their inability to pay heavy taxes imposed. The Bolsheviks are now advancing on Libatt, which the British squadron has decided to defend.