RUSSIAN CRISIS.

Taihape Daily Times, 27 February 1918, Page 5

RUSSIAN CRISIS.

J APAN' S HOUR HAS STRUCK

TO CHECK GERMAN EFFORTS

Received 8.15. PARIS, February 26

The Echo de Paris says Japan’s hour has struck, She alone is .able to check Germany’s Eastern penetration. | She is anxious to intervene when the signal is given.

GERMANY’S NEW DEMANDS

ALTERS EASTERN SITUATION,

A MENACE TO INDIA

Received 5.15.

LONDON, February 26.

Germany’s terms arc interpreted to mean that she desires to make the Baltic Sea a German lake and establish a chain of buffer states between Russia and Germany and secure a footing in the Black Sea across the Ukraine. The last mentioned would have an important bearing on the Eastern situation, making Germany independent of Bulgaria and Turkey, because she would then have new lines of communications from Berlin, ,via Odessa and Trcbizond, bringing Germany deep into Persia and close to India. A CHARGE OF TREASON. AGAINST GRAND DUKE NICHOLAS. Received 8.50. BERNE, February 26. German newspapers report that the Bolsheviks have ordered ex-Generalis-simo Nicholas to be court-martialled on a charge of treason against the Republic. GERMANS’ ADVANCE DEVELOPING. LONDON Feb 25. Wireless German official. —We occupied Pernau, where an Esthonian battalion placed itself under the German, command. We occupied Dorpat, prisonering 3000 and captured hundreds of automobiles. We reached Jitomir. », PETROGRAD, Feb 25. The Bolsheviks captured Bostoff after street fighting. The Germans entered Wolmar. The Red Guards resisted and then fled. They were mercilessly shot down. The latest news from Finland states that the White Guards are winning everywhere. The Red Guards are quarrelling, brawling, and disuniting. The Red Guards massacred 5000 white's who refuged on the Pellinger Islands. They were mostly students.

GERMAN PEACE TERMS ACCEPTED.

PETROGRAD, Feb 25,

'Allied embassies are leaving Petrograd. The central executive committee of the Soviets agreed to the peace terms by 126 to 85. Krylenko telegraphed to the German General Staff, requesting a renewal of the armistice, in view of Russia’s acceptance of the peace terms.

ENEMY DELEGATES GO TO BREST LITOVSK.

AMSTERDAM, Feb 25

Count von Hertling ihTormea Reichstag that peace delegates have gone to Brest Litovsk. Although a dispute about details is possible, the conclusion of peace must ensue very shortly. A Vienna message states that Aus-tro-Hungarian delegates have gone to Brest Litovsk. ' BOLSHEVIKS STRENGTHEN GERMANY. AMSTERDAM, Feb 25. “Vorwaerts’ ’says; One shudders at the thought of how lightly the Bolsheviks surrendered Russian territory. German democrats could never co likewise. The Bolsheviks have strengethened German Imperialism and made an effective fight against it most difficult. GERMANS OCCUPY REVAL. LONDON, Feb 25. Wireless German official.—-We occupied Reval after a battle; also Pleskau, southward of Lake Pripus. (Reval is the capital of Esthonia, and stands on a small bay on the south side of the Gulf of Finlnd, opposite Helsingfors (52 miles distant) and 232 miles by rail W.S.W. of Petrograd. It has a population of 80,000, one-half being Esthonians and onefourth German descent. From 1346 to 1561 it was held by the Livonian knights, and it was then made over to Sweden. In 1710 it was annexed by Russia.)