RUSSIA

Taihape Daily Times, 11 March 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA

ANTI-BOLSHEVIKS MOVEMENT. A LAEGE ARMY BEING RAISED. GENERAL ALEXIEFF IN j COMMAND. Received 8.40. LONNDON, March 10. Elightenmcnt of the internal political situation in Russia is afforded by Professor Elexeff, of Moscow University, who was interviewed on arrival at Christiania, He. stated to a representative at the Conference that Moscow had decided to organise the National Guard with the object of i overthrowing the Bolshevik regime. ' General Alexieff is organsing a great army in the districts and thousands are joining, and Cossacks are supporting. The movement aims at the forma- , tion of a Coalition Government, the introduction of a republic and the repudiation of the Russo-German peace. The .Bolsheviks' position has become one of the weakest after the peace with the Central Powers. The foregoi dng faclfs were hitherto l ■suppressed in Petrograd , RUSSIA'S PITIABLE STATE. INDESCRIBABLE SCENES. LONDON, March 9. The "Daily News" Petrograd correspondent states that not a single newspaper or poltician admits that this is a lasting peace. All agree as to the immediate need of organised forces of resistance. The condition of internal Russia is desperate. Rural }life is at a standstill owing to lack of agricultural implements. Railways have broken down, and are a mass oi crawling demoralised soldiery. Many have no intention of returning home. They have taken up a half conscious nomadic existence. Every station is like an opened hive of bees aha" smells like a vast latrine. 1 Men are swarming in cattle truck's. The correspondent believes that it will be years i before demobilisation is complete. Thousands are leaving Petrograd on footj or" on the roofs and buffers of trains, "Hop- ,! food. .Japanese intervention would make a national catastrophe irreparable. It would mean g. shortage of 1; meat'as well'as corn. . . FINLAND'S T/ FUTURE.P 'STOCKHOLM, March 9. Diplomatic circled-"state that the Finnish "'Conservatives,' -'-including White Guards, asked the Kaiser to apr.point;Prince; Oscar King of Finland, | believing, that the creation o;f a kih.gidom with: a strong military,, spirit is the only means of checking j revolutionary tendencies. i '",'' UKRAINE'S BURDEN. AMSTERDAM, March 9. Vienna papers state that the Central Empires have ordered Ukraine to deliver before April 15th 30,000 waggons of corn, 2000 waggons of frozen meat, and 1000 waggons of dried fruits, receiving in exchange agricultural machinery and iron. The Russians recaptured Jamtfurg. LENIN AND TROTSKY'S WARNING. LONDON, March 9. Wireless Russian.— Lenin and Trotsky have ordered the Bolshevik plenipotentiary at Sweden to have no relations with German Socialist Imperialists, who are declared to'be partisans of Scheidemann and David, strike-breakers and traitors of the working classes. LONDON, March 9. Wireless German official: Von De'mbuscho has been communicated with by the Smolny Institute, Petrograd stating that 450 inhabitants of Dorpat and Reval and 130 from other Livoniarj towns have been deporte'd in cattle trucks. This is in contravention of the peace treaty. it therefore protests against further deportation and demands the return of those already deported. PETROGRAD, March 10. Trotsky has resigned the Commissionership of Foreign Affairs. CONCERT BETWEEN JAPS AND ANTI-BOLSHEVIK. Received 10 a.m. WASHINGTON, March 10. The United Press states that it is rumoured that the Japanese Government has negotiated with the antiBolshevik leaders for some form of poliical aid in the event of Japanese intervention in Siberia.