RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, 7 May 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

GERMAN AIMS IN RUSSIA. LONDON, May 5. Recent arrivals from Russia believe that the Germans' chief aim in the north is monarchical restoration, while maintaining a separatist Republican Government in the Ukraiie, and perDDtuatine the breach between the different parts of: the, country. The scheme, even if it be successful in Petrograd or a small part of Russia, is unlikely to be decisive over the rest of the country. REVERTING TO THE OLD ORDER. STOCKHOLM, May 5. . It is reported that Lenin and Trotsky have come in contact with .a num : ber of officials of the Czar's regime. Travellers from Moscow say that Lenin is preparing a counter-revolution with the connivance of Czarists. Lenin is hoping to subdue the parties responsible for the first revolution. Indications point to the Russian situation generally tending towards re-or-ganisation through -military means. UKRAINE. i AMSETRDAM, May 5. In the Reichstag, Von Payer, referring to Ukraine, stated that Von Eichhorn 's drastic action was due to the discovery ( that the Ukraine committee, ine'luding several ministers, had plotted the assassination of all German officers in Ukraine. LONDON, May 5. The Time's' Hague correspondent says the new Ukraine Government is a mere German tool. The Frankfurter Zeitung excuses the tyranny, stating that the Central Powers' economic situation is so grave that it justifies the greatest energy in enforcing requirements. TROTSKY'S METHODS NEW YORK, May 5. Mr Lerman Bernsteain, the New York Herald's Stockholm correspondent says he has obtained the original of a letter from Trotsky to Lenin,: during the separate peace negotiations ; at Brest Litovsk. Trotsky said: It is impossible, to sign, peace. My plan is to announce the termination of war' without signing peace. The Germans will then be unable to attack. In any case, it would be difficult for Germany to attack us because Of her internal condition. - . GERMANS AT SEBASTOPOL. ' LONDON, May 5. The Germans, in occupying Sebastopcl, found the greater part of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, and merchantmen in the harbour. 'Several Turkish warships, including the Goeben, have arrived at Sebastopol. '■ <■ .' ":. ;v:a:0;; i,;\f ' , GERMANY AR3-UKRAINE. . POSITION DEFINED. Received 11.10 a.m. I AMSTERDAM. May 6. In the Reichstag, von P&yev admitted the Germans entereti Ukraine not merely for the purpose of restoring order, but because she wanted foodstuffs as speedily as possible. iHc said the Rada was powerless to make the population deliver the grain. Its communistic theories, moreover, were | not reciprocated by the peasants, hence the trouble which led to the overthrow of the Government. The new Government which is being formed, by Hetman Skoropadski, whom the peasants have elected, haa agreed to the formation of German field tribunals. The new Government refused !to recognise the theories that levied | ownership of the soil. It agreed with j the necessity of concluding a long i term of economic agreement with the ! Central Powers and negotiate for the 1 rc-imbursement of German military assistance. A COMPLAINT FROM RUSSIA. Received 11.25 a.m. WASHINGTON, May 6. The State Department has received from the Russian Soviet Government a report against the alleged encouragement given by the American Consul at Vladivostock to the movement to establish an independent Siberian Government. A CANDID OPINION. Received 11.10 a.m. May 6. The Arbeiter Zeitung, of Vienna, conedmns the Austro-German proceedings in the Ukraine, and foresees perilous complications. It says the Ukraine is bound to regard the AustroGerman as a military regime whose object is solely the acquisition of foodstuffs. And this Russophile sentiir.ent v. ill be strengthened.