RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, 27 June 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

KERENSKY IN LONDON.' - ... ■ ;; . Received 9.20 a.in. LONDON, June 26. Kerensky has arrived in London. JAPANESE INTERVENTION. HUGE ARMY IN READINESS. Received 9.20 a.m, NEW YORK, June 26. The ‘Times” Paris correspondent, referring to possible J'apanese intervention In Russia*, learns from a reliable source that Japan, since the war, has mobilised about two millions, including an active army of first and second Territorial reserves in addition to auxiliary reserves, who had several sixty-day. periods of training, the number being one million. It is believed that Japan is able to rapidly mobilise an expeditionary force of sixty divisions, ;• aggregating nearly a million men.

AUSTRIAN AFFAIRS. POLITICAL EFFECT OF THE AUSTRIAN SET-BACK. LONDON, June 25. In view of the Austrian set-back on the Piaye, there is strong demand in London for exploiting the situation politically. The “Daily Chronicle’sdiplomatic correspondent urges Mr. Lloyd George, M. Clemenceau, Premier of France, and Signor Orlanco, Premier of Italy, to sign a manifesto containing a decisive utterance, expressing sympathy for oppressed nationalities. Such action, it is suggested, would produce a climax to hunger, social unrest, political crisis, and military disaster which exist a*, the Allies’ instruments. Such a manifesto, like a charge of dynamite, would shake the frail fabric of Austrian hegemony.