RUSSIAN CRISIS.

Taihape Daily Times, 11 February 1918, Page 5

RUSSIAN CRISIS.

DISCUSSING -THE MASSACRE OF CAPITALISTS.

defeated by two votes.

Received S.IO.

STOCKHOLM, February 10,

Scandinavians from Finland state the Finnish Red Guards and the Govcrmemfc seriously discussed and finally rejected by two votes a proposal for another St, Bartholomew night, involving the slaughter of all capitalists.

DELEGATION FOR FRANCE AND ENGLAND.

Received 5.40.

STOCKHOLM, February 10,

A Russian delegation has arrived here cn route to England and France. It includes Kameneff, whose name is among those for whom the Imperial Bank in Germany opened credits in Switzerland fob corruption.

HORRIBLE BUTCHERY IN FIN-

LAND,

Received 9.40,

COPENHAGEN, Feb. 10,

Terrible conditions prevail at Helsingfors, and elsewhere, Wh°l esa l e massacres are reported, especially of young men of the better classes. Pupils at the Industrial and High Schools in Tammonfors escaped from the city, but were discovered by the Red Guards, who killed 120.

CIVIL WAR IN RUSSIA,

CHOLERA WIDESPREAD.

Received 9.5,

STOCKHOLM, Feb. 10

The newspaper Aftonbladt states that war prevails throughout Russia. Violent fighting is progressing at Potrograd and elsewhere. Cholera is widespread.

UKRANIANS ROUT BOLSHEVIKS

UKRAINE’SnPOSUTjON IMPROVING

DAILY,

STOCKHOLM. Feb 9

Brest Litoysk reports that the Uk_ ranians, in a great battle, routed the Bolsheviks, ; capturing 200,000 rifles, 300 machine-guns and 200. truck-loads of munitions. It is , announced from the same source that the Bolsheviks vainly endeavoured to occupy Kieff, being severely defeated. Their casualties in. elude 3000 killed at Kieff,

The Rada’s .position Is dally

strengthening,

RUSSO- GERMAN ARMISTICE,

LONDON, February 10

The Press' Bureau; in a statement adduces evidence'- 1! of the transfer of German divisions from* the Eastern' front’to'the Western front, subsequent to the signing of the Russo-Ger-man armistice on 15th December, under which all transfers were prohibited.

FINLAND’S CRISIS,

STOCKHOLM, Veb 9

The White Guards suffered defeat at Nystad, the Red Guards pursuing them until they sought refuge upon the ice in the direction of Aaland_ It is reported that the Red Guards were totally defeated at Tammerfors, losing several thousand killed and wounded.

Scandinavian refugees declare that terrorism prevails. The Red Guards are resorting to awful practices STOCKHOLM, Feb 9.

The Finnish White Guards captur. ed Kuopio after 11 days’ fighting, prisonering 500 Red Guards.

RUSSIA’S BETRAYAL

BOLSHEVIKS SUPPLIED WITH

german gold,

SENSATIONAL DOCUMENNTS

PARIS, February 9. The Petit Pension” publishes documents showing that Germany subsidised the Bolshevik movement with large sums of money and pa id Lenin and Trotsky money. Germany also provided for the publication of Maximalist leaflets, 120,000 marks being placed at Gorki’s disposal. The “Discontagevcllschaf, ” placed 252,000 marks at Lenin’s credit in Copenhagen, promising another 120,000 on his arrival in Finland, Stockholm bankers’ letters notify the opening of an account in Trotsky’s favour by a RhcinisehWestphalian syndicate. The Imperial Bank of Germany instructed its representatives in Switzerland that money required for pacifist propaganda in Russia would be paid through Finland to Lenin, Trotsky, Kolovsky, and certain others.

GERMAN-UKRAINE PEACE.

TO BE SIGNED TO-DAY.

COPENHAGEN, Feb 9

A German semi-official message states that peace will be signed by Germany and the Ukraine Rada today.

THE POLES DENOUNCED,

LONDON, Feb 9

Lord Robert Cecil, interviewed, stated that information from a relable source shows that Krylenko issued a proclamation on February 4th, denouncing the Poles’ attitude towards the Bolsheviks.

COPENHAGEN, Feb 9

General Brussiloff has been arrested in Moscow by order of the loca : Soviet.

ULTIMATUM TQ THE BOL-

SHEVIKS,

GERMAN DEMANDS MUST B'E

ACCEPTED

AMSTERDAM, Fob. 10

Germany has delivered what “Vorwaorts” calls an ultimatum to the Bolsheviks requiring Trotsky to accept the German demands of 27th December, otherwise war against Russia will be resumed.

The “Nordcutschc ” scmi-offieially ; that the Central Powers have intimated that they are unalterably resolved against evacuation of Russia’s western territirics, claiming that they have already gone an extraordinarily long way to meet the Russians on the question of the right of national self-determination. Further concessions are impossible.

GERMANY'S MAILED FIST.

THE LAST ADJOURNMENT

London Jan 25

When the Russian delegates at Brest Litovsk asked the Germans to specify conditions regarding the occupied territories. General Hoffmann spread out the war map and drew his finger along a line from the shore of the Gulf of Finland eastwards along the Mocne Sund Islands, theiice through Walck and Dvinsk to Brest Litovsk. The' Russians mentioned the southern occupied territor. ies, and Hoffmann replied:— rit “We will speak of them with •"■the I Ukranian Republic.”; •: . The Germans announced that the present adjournment -was the last tc which they would agree;b. t. The correspondent- %f the Daily Chronicle at Petrogradbtea'ys'-thaf under German pressure the negotiations are reaching a complex and critical stage. The Bolsheviks are verging on an impasse, and look to Austria, 1 hoping for a .popular revolt; meanwhile they dally with the revolutionary l array idea,, which does not materialise. 1 Expresses from Petrograd describe theg elaborate German amiability at Brest Litovsk. Prince Leopold of Bavaria and General Hoffmann spared no expense in entertaining the Bolsheviks with champagne dinners and lunches, and evening concerts by ar. tists from Berlin. The German description of hospitality includes fulsome flattering and personal sketches of the delegates. The Times correspondent at Petrograd reports that the rapid growth of extremism is the greatest danger facing Russia. The Bolsheviks have won a remarkable victory, and are pursu. ing it with the sole idea of achievement, irrespective erf consequences; but their destructiveness is reaching the limit of its attractiveness, and only constructive work and a popular sense of duty and self-sacrifice will secure permanent results. But how may this be accomplished when the masses are insatiable and filled with .unrest, and anarchism is steadily extending? The Government loses ad. herents when it tightens its control. The Pan-Russian Soviet Congress gave an immense ovation to Lenin’s glorification of class war, and the declaration that Idan obligations will shortly become rubbish. 'An official telegram from Brest Litovsk states that representatives of the Ukranian Soviets are established at Kharkoff. A rival Ukranian Rada has J been established at Kieff. Tf inform-1 ed the Bolsheviks representatives that the Rada does not represent the Uk. ranian people, but only the Governments of Kieff, Tchernokoerf, and part of Kursh, whereas the Soviets control Kharkoff, Ekaterinoslav, and the Kherson Basin from Donetz to the Black Sea. It will be impossible for the Rada to supply anyone with wheat, because the Soviets control wheat-growing and means of communication Representatives of the Soviets will confer in the peace negotiations as part of the Russian dele, gation and repudiate the alleged treachery of the Rada in attempting to make a separate peace with the Central Powers. The president of the Russian delegation has replied, agreeing to discuss a common peace with the Ukraine Soviets as part of the Russian delegation.