RUSSIA MIX-UP.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 December 1919, Page 2

RUSSIA MIX-UP.

iy Electric Telegraph—Copyrignt ■ RUSSIA AND SIBERIABERLIN, Dec. 15. Mr Wilton writes from Russia that a eat Federation of autonomous Sibern provinces is projected as a result of inferences of leaders. This replaces le earlier idea of a simultaneous resiration of the whole Empire which died wing to the suggested administration eing unsuitable to Siberia. With the ill of Omsk, the creation of a Siberian ederation has become urgent in order o combat the eastward movement of he Bolsheviks, and also to meet the conomic crisisi involved in the tremenlous slump of the rouble. BOLSHEVIK RULE. ARCHANGEL, Dec. 15-. When thb Bolsheviks for the second ;ime occupied Voronezh ,they massacred the whole of the families, and executed all the priests. Archbishop Tikon Tarsky was hanged at a gate. All the churches have lieen closed. LENIN’S PROPOSALS. (Received This Da> at. 8.45 s.m.) COPENHAGEN, December 14. Lenin’s terms to the Esthonians include claims for strategic frontier depriving the Esthonians of a good part of their territory; also that the Esthonians should be responsible for a larger part of the Russian debt. ,