RUSSIA

Taihape Daily Times, 8 June 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA

EED GUAEDS FOE GERMANY. Eeeeived 9 a.m. COPENHAGEN, June 6 The Finnish Government is proposing to send 70,000 Ked Guard prisoners to Germany to work in war industries. CONSTANZA OPEN FOR COMMERCE. Received 9.25 a.m. MOSCOW, June 6. ' Germany has informed the naval authorities that Constanza is now open. Germany offers coal and agricultural implements in exchange for cereals, oils, and provisions. ARMENIANS MASSACRED. GERMAN OCCUPATION OF UKRAINE CONTINUES. Received 9.25 a.m. MOSCOW, June 6. A report from Tiflis states that the Turks massacred 10,000 Armenians during the last fortnight. Caucasian committee? are mobilising all men between nineteen ty. Two detachments are already concentrating in the Tiflis area. ■•-.-« - German occupation of Ukraine • con-, tinues, especially northwards and eastwards. """~" • '.. A CRY FROM RUSSIA. ALLIES MUST. ASSIST NOW OR ,j NEVER. , . June 6. • A Russian officer, commissioned by the pro-Allied party to present Russia's case to the Allies, has reached London, after several months' travelling via Siberia and India. He eluded Bolshevik surveillance, and had hairbreadth escapes. His life was thrice attempted. He states that Alexieff, Kaledin, Korniloff, and others instructed him to make the strongest appeal to the Allies for armed intervention. Germany is rapidly enlisting Russian occupied provinces, building up a large army by easily persuading peasants to enlist by promises of ?uod pay and loot. Germany is likewise forming a Turkish-Moslem army, recruited from Russian Tauranians un--der German organisation and leadership. These are intended for the conquest of India, and the absorption of South Russia and the Caucasus is paving the way for a like mena"ce. Russia's Northern Sr?a route is "intended to exclude the Allies" from sea action. The Bolsheviks' outcry against Japanese itervention in Siberia is devised to safeguard the East. The educated Russian minority, misunderstanding the Allies' silence, and believing they have alienated sympathy, are inclined to accept German domination in preference to misrule, yet would instantly rally if promised help. Meanwhile Germany rapidly continues the conquest of Russia. The Allies should not lose a moment. Next year may be too late to intervene.