RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, 20 May 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

SOVIETS' CONTROL OF SIBERIA IN JEOPARDY. Received 10.15 a.m. WASHINGTON, May. 18 Information has reached Russian diplomatic circles that General Sememoff's forces are moving on Irkutsk steadily. It is .expected he will soon reach Lake Baikail, which would ie move the control of Siberia East of the lake from the Soviets' Government at Moscow. REBELLION IN FINLAND ENDED. Received 8 a.m. •■' LONDON, May 18. The "Morning Post's" Stockholm correspondent says three leading Red 1 Guard generals were executed at Helsingfors yesterday. The rebellion may now be considered ended. THE EX-CZAR'S FATE. COURTMARTIALLED IN MOSCOW. Received 8 a.m. BERNE, May 18. A Moscow telegram states that negotiations are proceeding for settling the ex-Czar and .family in Switzerland, journeying via Roumania. The Czar's family is willing to go to Switzerland. AMSTERDAM, May 18. Newspapers state *the ex-Czar is to be courtmartialled at Moscow in June, RUSSIAN REVOLUTION A CALAMITY. BOLSHEVIKS INTENDED TO SELL RUSSIA. AWFUL CONDITIONS IN PETRO GRAD. CRIME AND STARVATION RAMPANT. Received 9.30 a.m. LONDON, May, 18,, • Latest advices from Petrograd give a deplorable account of conditions pf life in that city. There is very little fcod, and official rations scarcely sustein existence. Consequently theft and fraud are rampant. Small quantities of provisions in private hands leads to extortionate profiteering. Hams cost fifty pounds sterling, and a single egg 3s. The .city generally is going to wrack < and ruin. Vladimir Bourbeff,. a famous Russian revolutionary, recently released from Petrograd fortress, has arrived at Stockholm. In a message to the "Daily Chonicle,"' he : sums up the causes of Russia's debacle, attributing it to republican weakness and Bolshevik vindictiveness'.' The ■ Bolskev r iks had a purpose which Kerensky lacked. • Bourbeff firmly believes ; the Bolsheviks always intended to sell Russia in order to have leisure to organise an anarchist propaganda. He adds the Germans, even in Bolshevik Russia, are calmly buying banks, estates, ships, and railways. The Bolsheviks appointed Ganetsky to nationalise the Petrograd banks. Ganetsky is a notorious German agent, and was once caught red-handed. Bourbeff says he and other revolutionaries now perceive that the revolution has been a calamity. SAVING RUSSIA FROM GERMANY Received 10.50 a.m. PARIS, May 18. The entire French Press~urge an early combined effort to solve the Russian problem and prevent Germany reorganising Russia in Germany's own interests. "Le Temps" says the first necessity is a coherent method, and suggests that the Entente begin by getting coherent information by centralising and examining news. Washington would bo the most suitable centre. FINLAND'S FALL. LONDON, May IS Twelve thousand White Guards reoccupied Helsingfors (the capital of Finland). The Russians evacuated the portions which the White Guards occupied.