RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, 23 May 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

FINLAND'S DICTATOR. STOCKHOLM, May 21. The Finnish Diet nominated a Premier, Sven Hufrud, temporary Dictator. In an interview he declared that the only way for Finland to become independent is to choose a constitutional monarch. TO SAVE RUSSIA. ALLIED INTERVENTION PROBABLE. DESPATCH OF EXPEDITION. DISCUSSED, " LONDON, May 22. -: Great diplomatic efforts are proceeding to secure ian Allied agreement to protect the Russians in view of the Germans' ruthless enslavement. The position is that the British and French most strongly desire American support before inaugurating substantial armed intervention, while President Wilson requires a Russian invitation. All Allied sources of information confirm that the Russians' detestation of the Germans is rising to fever heat as depredations and cruel penetration proceed. It is believed an Allied expedition would bring a rally against the Germans. Though a great Bussian military revival is impossible, Germany would be compelled to withdraw troops from the West, She lias few troops in Russia, her penetration being largely conducted on bluff. The Times Washington correspondent forecasts that President Wilson will consent to an Allied expedition He has always put the defence of liberated orderly Russia in the forefront of his programme. ; A Moscow telegram states that the Bolsheviks convention defeated the supporters of Allied intervention. Several committeemen who favoured a Japanese expedition were arrested. LONDON, May 22. Authoritative Polish quarters affirm that the Central Powers have concluded a reciprocal agreement for a new solution of the Polish question.

RUSSIAN "MAY DAY",, CELEBRA- , ;„ ;i .. i _.". 1 ; : ' FANTASTICAL HAPPENINGS." Received 12.50 a.m. LONDON, May 22. The Daily Express's Petrograd correspondent states ihe Bolsheviks celebrated the. Russian May Day as a. festival of victory over the. capitalists. The celebrations were of the strangest character, and included the daubing 'Of Mainsky Palace, the Winter Palace, and Government offices with cubist designs; the r'ection- of cubist picture galleries in: Nevsky" Prospect, the ajlegoricai designs representing the. progress of the proletariat, included a picture of the Kaiser as the skeleton of death scything the red flowers of revolutionary Russia. The celebrations in Moscow included the wholesale removal of all monuments erected in memory of monarchs and heroes of the Czars' times. Only SkobelofT's monument was spared.