RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, 1 July 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

BOLSHEVIK TREACHERY. SECRET TREATY WITH THE HUNS MILAN, June 28. A Cracow newspai>er publishes the text of the Bolshevik-German secret treaty, in which the Bolsheviks agree not to interfere with Germany’s Polish policy, and pledge that they will crush any Polish violation of Lithuania and the Ukraine, aricT defend Germanised Poland against the Allies. ~ GERMANS AND PETROGRAD. OCCUPATION EXPECTED. LONDON, June 28. The “Morning Post’s” Stockholm correspondent states that a Swedish editor returned from Petrograci says that German occupation of the city is expected unless forestalled by the Czecho-Slovaks, who have alreadymustered a hundred thousand welldisciplined troops. MURDER OF EX-CZAR CONFIRMED BY UKRANIA. BERNE, June 28. The Ukraine Bureau at Lausanne states that the Bolsheviks at Ekaterinburg, after a 'short trial, shot the exCzar. Details are lacking. EX-CZAR’S FATE DOUBTFUL. Received 8.55 a.m. LONDON, June 30. The ex-Czar’s fate remains doubtful Unconfirmed reports declare he is safe. GERMANY TO INTERVENE IN RUSSIA. Received 8.55 a.m. BERNE, June 30. German newspapers state Germany is preparing to intervene in Russia cn the pretext of restoring order with the Maximalists ’ aid. LEADERS .FOR .COUNTER-RE-VOLUTION. ARRIVE AT HARBIN. Received 10.15 a.m. AMSTERDAM, June 80. The Vossische Zeitung has announced that the Constitutional Democratic leader Miliukoff, formerly Foreign Minister, and the Octobrist' leader Gutchkoff, have arrived at Harbin and placed themselves at the head of the counter-revolutionary movement. The Harbin correspondent confirms the statement that German and Austrian ox-prisoners have occupied Irkutsk.