RUSSIAN CRISIS.

Taihape Daily Times, 11 March 1918, Page 5

RUSSIAN CRISIS.

EVACUATION OF PETROGRAD. GERMAN OCCUPATION LIKELY. PETROGRAD, March 8. The Council of the People's Commissaries decided to remove vernment to Moscow, and the evacuation is proceeding rapidly. The German occupation of Petrograd is considering likely, on the pretest of restoring order. Leninites, favouring ratification of the peace terms, are gaining ground. AUSTRIAN POLES MUTINY. CHECKED BY CROATS. AMSTERDAM, March 8. A Polish "brigade of eight thousand men muntlnied. Croatian infantry obstructed the mutineers reaching Rumaian and Bessarabian territory, and took the Poles prisoners, after severe fighting with heavy losses on both sides. A DIVISION OF RUSSIANS. TO CO-OPERATE WITH JAPS. Received 9.10. WASHINGTON, March 10. It. is understood that Japan is forming a divison of Russans to co-operate with, the Japanese 1n Siberia. JAPANESE INTERVENTION. DECISION THIS WEEK. Received 9.10.

WASHINGTON, March 10,

A decision concernng the Japanese intervention in Siberia 'is expected this coming week. The United States will be notified should Japan decide to intervene. The indications are that Japan is now more anxious than a week ago to enter Siberia. GERMANS LAND IN FINLAND^ ; t:i ' ! " ; RED GUARD'S BEATEN. ' ioltM ' ] ::: " ;; Raceived ;l '9;li(3. r '•' '■' • .fcrnr* ; -COPENHAGEN/March 10. 1 'Two "thousand 1 Germans-left the Aal- ' and : 'lslands and ' marched across the' ""ice to •''Finland./ Great quantities of 'munition's and artillery have olfobeen transported. .;■:..-:.., ••■, , ;\ The-v;Aftonbladen. learns there was fighting- on Aaland Islands, and that the : Germans have . beaten the Eed Guards. GERMAN FLAG HOISTED AT .■■>■> ro br.s,'.i \ AALAND. .... ■ i ?- [;:.;?io-f ;ro li : ——«-,-, :n■.■:>:. >'] L-:.TWO RUSSIAN TRANSPORTS . -. vJKfo* ■'*-'? : -SUNK.- i; u «j ■'■' ■"- Received 8.40. i ,-.i . ; .; -,.-, :/ . v 9 j <v j 4- COPENHAGEN, March 10. . The two thousand Germans who have landed at Aaland Islands have hoisted ther flag at Ekuse and built barracks. ■ ■a.-^Vt German destroyers sank two Russian transports south of Aaland on Thursday. PLOT TO RESTORE .MONARCHY. GERMAN SCHEME TO CAUSE REVOLUTION. IN ENEMY COUNTRIES. Received 8.40. NEW YORK, March 10. A Washington correspondent learns from an Entente diplomatic source that the Versailles War Council is dealing with the question of Japanese intervention The United Press Petrograd correspondent states Grand Duke Michael and other officers were arrested for alleged complicity in a plot to restore the monarchy. The same agency learns that Germany with the aid of Lenin, is endeavouring to cause an industrial revolution in the United States, France, Italy, and England. The correspondent adds that the Germans proposed to the Bolsheviks that German agents sailing Russian ships be sent to neutral countries mentioned to act as agitators. The attitude of the Russian Government has not been ascertained. GERMANISING RUSSIA. A NEW BAGDAD RAILWAY ROUTE. Received 8.40. LONDON, March 10. Lord Cecil, interviewed, said he would be glad if Japan acted in her own and Allies' interests to prevent Germanising Russia, where they were pursuing their world scheme, evidenced by the Baltic Sea and Black Sea operations, pending the occupation of Odessa, The insistence of the restoration to Turkey of Batoum, Ardahan and Kara was designed to substitute a new Eastern route for Bagdad railway. I. ... .. . :|3 r:li ; |!Ii