RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, 10 July 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

BOLSHEVIK SAVAGERY IN CHINESE TURKESTAN. PEKING, July 8. Russians consuls in' Chinese Turkestan describe the wanton savagery and ruthless greed of armed Bolsheviks who are overrunning Central Asia. They sent an expedition to Bokhara, ostensibly to enforce reforms. The expedition seized four millions sterling'from the State bank, looted and destroyed the town, shot peasants working in the fields, and violated wo. men. Later the Bolsheviks invaded Semirechia, and it is reported that they murdered a thousand Chinese. Some Cossacks assembled in Northern Semircohia are resisting, and appealing to the Allies for assistance. A German expedition to Moscow is anticipated as a result of Count Mir bach's murder. SERIOUS SPLIT IN SOVIET CAMP. MOSCOW, July 8. A Re\V>ru#onary Military "Council has been appointed to direct all operations against the Czecho-Slovaks. Colonel Muravieff, former commander-in-chief will command the Soviet troops. A further split has occurred in the Soviet camp, the Moderate Social Revolutionaries and the Minimalists ' Socialists being excluded from the Soviet central executive. MOSCOW RISING SUPPRESSED. LONDON, July 8. Wireless Russian official The counter-revolutionary rising of tlio' Left Social Revolutionaries at Mos-' cow has been suppressed. Several hundred have been arrested. GERMANS' EASTERN ASPIRATIONS, ( LONDON, July S. t Significant reports are appearing in the German Press of the Bolsheviks ■at Baku (on the Caspian Sea) which it is alleged necessitate German occupation of this rich district. COPENHAGEN, July SY' ' A semi-official Wolff; message fastens the responsibility on the Social Revolutionaries, who engaged in severe fighting with the Bolsheviks, resulting in the latter's favour. MIRBACH'S ASSASSINATION. AMSTERDAM, July 8." Berlin telegrams state that inquiries suggest that the Entente was implicated in the Mirbach affair. PARIS, July B'. The Press agree that Germany will attempt to profit by the Mirbach affair, and speculate whether it.was deliberately arranged, similar to the Serajevo assassination, in order to -afford a pretext for more drastic military action. They urge the necessity of Allied intervention to save Russia. COUNTER REVOLUTION IN MOSCOW. RESULT OF MIRBACH'S MURDER. » Received 11.10 a.m. AMSTERDAM, July 9. Messages from Moscow state that Mirbach's assassins fled to buildings occupied by social revolutionaries, and who are defending the place with machine guns and rifles. The murder was the signal for a great counter-rev-olutionary movement . The rebels attacked and seized portion of the city, including the Central Telegraph office. The Bolsheviks claim to have arrested the leaders except Savinoff, who was Kerensky's Minister of War.