MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 February 1919, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

f AUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION]

THE HALT 1C BOLSHEVISTS

LONDON, Feb

The representatives of the German Government liave-asked permission of the Armistice Commission to be allotted to use warships against the Bolshevists in the Baltic, and have also requested the support of Allied warships. DOLES AND ALLIES. LONDON, Feb. Id. Though the Powers at Paris adjusted the Czech and Polish claims, the Teschen Poles are still unsatisfied. There is considerable ill-feeling in Poland owing to fears that the Allies do not mean to help her. Allied mediation negotiated an armistice between the Poles and Ukrainians in Lemberg. All of north and north-east Ukraine is now in Bolshevist, hands. The object of the invasion is to secure the great provision stores. INVITATION ACCEPTED. PARIS, Feb. .13. The Ukrainians, Letts, and Lithuanians have, agreed to send delegates to the All irmora Conference. EXECUTIONS CONFIRMED. OMSK, Feb. 13. Confirmatory particulars show that the Royal Executions were carried out by wholesale butchery. The Czar, Czarina, the Czarevitch, the four princesses, a doctor and a servant were tried in a small cellar beneath the Czar’s Ekaterinburg residence. As soon as the sentence was pronounced 1 , members of the Revolutionary Tribunal produced revolvers and ruthlessly slew the royalties, who were kneeling in prayer. The bodies were carted off in a motor lorry and buried in an unknown spot. Princess Anastasia was not,killed outright, but was battered to death with clubs. Next day the Tribunal took the Grand Duchess Sergo, Prince John, Prince Igor, and other relatives of the. royalties and threw them down a shaft of a disused mine. Bombs were hurled after them. Some were drowned and some killed. Prince Igor’s body was subsequently found with the wounds bound up by pieces of shirt, indicating that lie survived in the water for some time.

WINDAU bombarded. COPENHAGEN, Feb. Id. The Bolshevists have been completely driven out of the territory of the Esthonian Republic.

RESULTS OF BOLSHEVISM. BERNE,. Feb 13. The Socialists’ Conference appointed a Commission to proceed to Russia at M. Lenin’s invitation to investigate results of Bolshevism. Mr Ramsay Macdonald is the British delegate.

DISTRIBUTION OF BREAD. LONDON, Feb. 13

A Russian wireless message says that the Peasants’ .Congress is making a free contribution of bread in Moscow and Petrograd.

ALLIED SUCCESSES. LONDON, Feb. 13. A British North Russia communique says the Allies successfully counterattacked eight hundred Bolshevists at Shredmecheygn, one hundred miles south-south-east of Archangel, driving the enemy back six miles. Southward the Allies gallantly repulsed a strong attack against Kadisli. The situation is more satisfactory. SOCIETY OF NATIONS. PARIS, February 14. No state will be admissable to the Society of Nations unless it gives guarantees of sincere support of the principles and purposes. Members are to bind themselves to submit their disputes to arbitration of recommendations of the Executive Council. If tho nation discards the League’s riding, the Executive Council shall decide what action shall be taken. The covenant provides for a reduction or armaments and declares against private ownership of munitions. The Covenant also established a general Council of nations with an executive Council meeting frequent- i ly also a permanent international secretariat. The pre-amblc recites the establishment of international laws as the rule of conduct amongst the nations. The covenant does not provide for international police. The League members may use force at tlie recommendation of the Executive Council of the League if a nation makes war with-

out first submitting to arbitration

INTENTION I TO DEPORT. \V-\SHINO'J’ON, February 12. It bvns announced in the Senate that Government are preparing to deport all Bolsheviks and I. WAV.. aliens when shipping is available.

DANISH REFUSAL

\\ ASIIINGTON, February 12,

The Danish Legation has announce* that Denmark will not cede Green land to Canada.

A TYPHUS SCOURGE. WASHINGTON,. February 12. ■f mm Vladivostok say .there are approximately twenty-five thousand eases of typhus in Ekaterinburg, Ekeliabinsk and Omsk. Owing to the rigorous climate, it is impossible to dig graves and the bodies are loaded oil to railway trucks and left for disposition bv the officials.

EUTURE SHIPPING. NEW YORK, February lit. Sir Ashley Sparks head of the Cunird line has returned from Europe. He laid the view was generally held among hipping men that future transportation >u the sens will lie a joint affair between ingland and United States.

OVER (io.oon .MISSING. London, Ecb. 15. Mr Churchill announces that there are (11,80(1 British prisoners still unaccounted for. The German authorities are assisting in a search for them. There is no .confirmation as to existence of secret prison camps in German V. ...