RUSSIAN CRISIS.

Taihape Daily Times, 21 March 1918, Page 5

RUSSIAN CRISIS.

JAPANESE FIGHTING BOLSHKVIKS.

KERENSKY IN SWEDEN.

Rceived 9 a.m. TOKIO, March 20. Kerensky is reported to be safe ia

Christiania

Japanese volunteers are hastening to Blagovescheff to assist the Japanese, who are fighting the Bolsheviks.

WHAT THE REVOLUTION HAS DONE.

Rceived 9 a m.

PETROGRAD, March 20

The newspaper Pravda says: Russia is split up into enslaved and humiliated sections. This is all the revolution has accopmlished, but we must continue to fight making our motto victory or death. GERMANY AND SWEDEN. Rceived 9 am. WASHINGTON, March 20. Official despatches from France state Germany invited Sweden to send representations to Brest Litovsk re the future of the Aaland Islands, and Sweden did not reply, whereupon Germany occupied the Islands. THE SIBERIAN SITUATION. PEKIN, March 19. Leninists! are plundering Japanese in Siberia. Their lives are in jeopardy. They have also ordered a strict boycott of Japanese.

AMERICA TO INVESTIGATE

Received 10.10

WASHINGTON, March 20

An American mission is going to Siberia to investigate reports re armed

prisoners of war.

GERMANS ASSISTING BOLSHEVIKS

Received 10.10. . ' PEKIN, March 20

It is reported that 2000 German prisoners assisted the Bolsheviks at Blagovistshinsk.

REVOLT .AMONG THE POLES,

Received 10.10.

WASHINGTON, March 20.

Paderewski has received a cable from M-<: Pichon, stating the ■ Polish revolt; against -the Central Powers..is rapldly,;extending. There are violent demonstrations in the occupied ■ ;■■portions of Galicia against the cession (of Kholm. Polish Parliamentary clubs ■in Vienna and elsewhere have passed resolutions against the Central Powers.

Outbreaks are reported at Po'sen. Several prominent Poles in Vienna have returned their decorations to the Emperor.

CHINA AND RUSSIA.

Received 10.40.

PETROGRAD, March 20.

It is officially announced that the Soviets' authorities in Siberia have concluded an agreement with the Chinese Government for the regulation of frontier questions.

GERMANY WANTS RUSSIA'S

FLEET.

Received 10.40. LONDON, March 20*

The "Daily Express" correspondent at Petrograd reports that it is believed the peace treaty contains a German offer to exchange Russian war prisoners if the whole fleet is given up, ~ PETROGRAD, March 20. Despite the peace treaty enemy operations are continuing; it is expected with the intention of outflanking Moscow. Trotsky has arrived at Moscow. THE WAY OF THE HUN. Received 10.40. WASHINGTON, March 20. American State Departments reports from Sweden show the Germans have requisitioned food supplies fron\ the Aaland Islands, causing famine conditions.

FURIOUS FIGHTING.

BETWEEN TEUTON AND SLAV.

Received 10.40,

WASHINGTON, March 20.

An official despatch from Rome reports serious clashes between the German and Slav regiments behind the German lines on the Italian front, because the Germans jeered at the Slavs who were singing their national hymns. After furious fighflng the Slavs were overpowered, locked in railway waggons and sent to the' front. * I