RUSSIAN AFFAIRS

Hokitika Guardian, 8 April 1920, Page 2

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS

Electric Teles"aph— C' ’Viigh'.i PEACE TERMS REFUSED. MOSCOW, April 0. The Soviet Government refused the Polish peace terms. Finland refused to ceases, and the Reds are withdrawn. JAPANESE VIEW. WASHINGTON, April 6. Generl Inouye, the Japanese Military Attache, after receiving despatches from the Japanese War Department, announced that the attack had been made on Vladivostock. It had resulted. he said, because of threatened aggressive acts by* a portion of the Russian Army. - The Japanese Commander disarmed the Russians. He then issued a proclamation stating that his action had no motive other than “to maintain order.” * _ The Russian authorities are now being negotiated with, the object being to arrive "at a harmonious future policy. NEW YORK. April 7.

The “New York Times” Washington correspondent says the Japanese Military Attache, Inouye alleges it was a sudden aggressive action of a Russian army on the 4th April that forced the Russo-Japanese battles at Madivostock. at Nikolaievsk and at Chabaro^k. The Japanese occupation of \ lad took was our result. The Japanese -say they are ncm •rotiating with the Russians. They say Their view is to arrive in the future a a harmonious policy. Japan says hei only motive is “to maintain peace and adds the United States have not made any repiesen < Ws regarding the Japanese occupation of Vladivostock. It is not expected any will he made.

BRUTAL TREATMENT. (Received This Day at 3 a.m.) _ LONDON, April (. Russian letters describe the tortures inflicted upon two British officers captured by Bolsheviks at Rostoff. The> were stripped, their arms were bioken and they were tied to posts on a public square while officers fired revolvers at their ar-s ad legs. The Englishmen refined to kneel, whereupon their legs were broken and they were then shot. Other acounts state that when Bolsheviks captured Bostoff they found five hundred wounded officers m the \ olunteer Army hospital. The Bolsheviks packed the basement with mflanii . materials, formed a cordon roundthe building to prevent escape, nrul then fire to it. No one escaped the flames.