RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, 16 May 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

TURMOIL IN RUSSIA. ANARCHISTS AND BOLSHEVIKS • .EIGHT. MASSACRE OF RUSSIANS BY PROGERMAN FINNS. LONDON, May 14. Petrograd advices report that a big battle between Anarchists and Bolsheviks is raging at Moscow, Many casualties are reported. It is understood in Stockholm that Britain has promised provisionally to acknowledge Finland’s independence until final peace conference, on condition that Finland releases Bfritish subjects and guarantees to maintain neutrality. . An official message from Mostfow says that after the German-led White Guards had occupied Tammerfors, in Finland, 500 Russian officers and soldiers were shot in groups of 40 and 50 with machine-guns. A desperate bloody battle was fought at Lahti, north of Yiborg, in which 4000 White Guards and Germans were killed. Many civilians were killed by the German bombardment. HUNS BULLYING RUSSIA. Received 8.55 a.m, WASHINGTON, May 15. Official advices here state the Germans sent an ultimatum to the Russian Soviet demanding the German occupation of Moscow, the disarmament of military units arid a reduction of armaments. k GERMAN BRUTALITY IN RUSSIALONDON, May 14. A wireless Russian official states: Foreign’Commissary has sent a message to the German Government calling attention to the terrible position of the peaceful population of occupied regions in White Russia along the line of Demarcation, where there have been violent progromS’, tortures, executions, savage treatment of the workers, burning of Russian villages by German Polish troops, and the wiping out of villages, with machine-guns.' The Russian Government complains that persons' suspected df Bolshevik sympathies are being shot or imprisoned under : terrible conditions, A reign of terror '.exists, being particularly bad in the ' town of Minsk, and the districts of ;B'obrinsk and Niborg, where many •hundreds are being slaughtered by ma-chine-guns. The Foreign Commissary suggests the formation of Russo-Gcr-man commissions, including representatives of the local pouplafion, to investigate these conditions. PEACE TREATY AND NEW PARLIAMENT. Received 11.50 a.m. LONDON, May 15. A Jassy official announcement of the signing of the peace treaty mentions the dissolution of parliament. The treaty will be submitted to the new Parliament assembling on June 17 for ratification.