RUSSIAN AFFAIRS

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10274, 8 May 1919, Page 5

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS

ARCHANGEL FRONT NO DANGER OF ENEMY'S SUCCESS. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, M:.y 5. General Ironside is confident that there is now no danger of, a sut:et»ssi';l enemy attack on the Archangel itc-al.

BOMBARDMENT OF NAKtVA V.\ BOLSHEVISTS.

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, May C. Th*j Abo (Finland) correspon lint of "The Times," in a message d.ited .ifay 2nd, states that a Bolshevik fleet bombarded Narva, and did serious French and British warships are ravelling the Gulf of Finland. No details are available.

CAUSE OF BOLSBHEVIK FAILURE LENIN AND TROTSKY GOVERNMENT COLLAPSING. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received May 8, 12.20 a.m.) NEW YORK,- May 5. -The "New York Herald's" London correspondent interviewed Sokoloff, the Russian economist, who is a Bolshevik, and a close friend of Lenin and Trotsky. Sokoloff, who has just arrived from Russia, said the Bolshevik regime was unsuccessful because it failed to keep the labouring classes disciplined. The Government compelled peasants to pay levies, although it had planned that the levies should come from the bourgeoisie. The land conditions had been allowed to become chaotic. The Government had failed to establish State farms. Inefficiency and corruption among local Bolshevik authorities also contributed to the failure. The Lenin-Trotsky Government was collapsing. ULTIMATUM TO ROUMANIA. BY UKRAINE~g6vERNMENT. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received May 8, 12.45 a.m.) I LONDON, May 6. ' A wireless message from Moscow states that the Ukraine Government has sent an ultimatum to Roumania demandingf the evacuation of Bessarabia and Bukovina. The reason given is the Roumanian advance into Hungary.