RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, 19 June 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

GERMANS AGAIN ATTACKING. PEASANTS CALLED UP. LONDON, June 17. Wireless Russian official.—M. Tchitcherf announces that the military authorities in the Voronezh region resport that the German command proposed a new boundary. Negotiations thereon with " the Russian command have not resulted in an agreement. The Germans on June 15th started an offensive in the regions of Varniska and Rostov, and are also advancing to-day in the Vetluisk region. Juveneff has issued a proclamation, addressed to all, on behalf of the people's commissariat of war, ordering the mobilisation of peasants (born between 1893 and 1897 inclusive), who are not employing others, residing in fifty-one specified districfs of twelve provinces and territories. Siberian, Orenburg and Cossack <troops are accepted. The men are to remain on active service for six months, and to be fed and clothed and paid the terms given the Red army.

FRENCH AMBASSADOR REACHESj MOSCOW. ' MOSCOW, June 17.' M. Vulens, the French Ambassador, has arrived. The German propagandists bad reported that be would be recalled. REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALISTS EXPELLED. LONDON, Jmte 18. The Press Bureau staTes: A Russian wireless says: The All-Russian Central Executive pasesd a resolution on June 14th which declares that it is being attacked by international imperialism on all fronts and the coadjutors thereof. Russia therefore expels from the committee, representatives of Revolutionary Socialists, also the Right and Centre, and Manhheviks, and recommends their expulsion from local Soviets, because they organised an armed revolt, in conjunction with Ivaledin and Kornilcff in the Don, Dutoff 'in the Urals, Sejcff, Khoevat, and I Koltchak in Siberia;' and lately the Czecho-Slovaks and Bijnkhand. JAPANESE INTERVEF-mCIvJ,

PROMPT ACTION IMPERATIVE. JAPANESE PRESS VIEW. TORIO, June 17. The newspaper "Yorudzu," dealing with intervention in Siberia, says: Prompt action by the Japanese army alone can save England, France, and humanity. The Allies will soon request intervention on the part of Japan, who stands like an archer with bow bent. Japan's army exists in vain if it is not used to win the game which divides the world. Japan must call up three millions* and if necessary, advance to the Urals, or beyond, until the main German army is encountered. We will go as far as is necessary to effectively check the Germans. We fear no difficulties and shrink from no sacrifices, realising that we and the Allies must win, or succumb to Teutonic domination.