EUROPEAN SITUATION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17686, 25 July 1919, Page 5

EUROPEAN SITUATION

BOLSHEVIST EXCESSES. VICTIMS DIG THEIR OWN GRAVES. MASSACRE OF JEWS. HELSINGFORS, July 17. It is reported from Petrograd that the British Embassy has been gutted, and that several of the British -were forced to dig their graves and then shot. A terrible anti-Jewish pogrom has broken out.—The Times. GENERAL MANNERHEIM. ASSASSINATION AIMED AT. . HELSINGFORS, July 17. tiho Bolshevists offer half a million roubles for the assassination of General Mannerheim, the Regent, the object being the paralysing of the operations of the Finnish army.—A. and N.Z. Cable. peace proposals. negotiations with Rumania. a week's armistice. COPENHAGEN, July 23. The Rumanian Press Bureau states that a Russian Bolshevist Commission is negotiating peace with- Rumania at the Dniester. , Lenin is willing to cede Bessarabia to Rumania. A -week's armistice has been arranged.— A. and N.Z. Cable. MUTINIES BY RUSSIANS. TOWN SURRENDERED TO BOLSHEVISTS. SITUATION IN HAND. LONDON, July 23. (Received July 24, at 8.15 p.m.) Official: General Ironside reports that Russian mutinies occurred principally on the Onega front, where there are no British troops, also on the railway front, ■where the mutiny did not mature. The Onega mutineers surrendered the front and the town to the enemy. The mutiny -was due to Bolshevist propaganda, and was brought to a head by a realisation that the British evacuation had begun. Apparently the Russians then decided that their only hope was to go over to the Bolshevists. The latter attackd the railway front, but were repulsed. General Ironside has the situation in hand.—A. and N.Z. Cable. GERMAN PRESIDENCY. EX-ROYALTIES EXCLUDED. COPENHAGEN, July 22. (Received July 24, at 11.5 p.m.) The German National Assembly decided by 123 votes to 117 that members of the Royal Houses reigning at the outbreak of the revolution cannot be candidates for the German Presidency.—A. and N Z Cable.