RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, 11 July 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

MIRBACH’S murder. PARIS, July 9. The “Petit Parisien’s” Petrograd correspondent expresses the opinion that the murder of Count Mirbach was the work of agents of the extreme Monarchists, with the object of forcing German divisions to seize Petrograd and Moscow. It may result in the removal of German divisions from the West front to police Russia. Reuter’s Amsterdam correspondent states that the Ukranian Government has resigned.

GERMANY AND RUSSIA,

NEW rORK, July 9,

Mr. Shapl6n, the United Press Association’s Stockholm correspondent, states that as a result of Count Mirbach’s assassination Germany will demand the right to police Petrograd and Moscow, and also the passage of troops to the Murman coast. The Bolshevik! will either accept the German demands or abdicate. The United Press Association's Washington correspondent learns authoritatively but unofficially that America will send an economic mission, but there will be no military intervention at present. BOLSHEVIK POWER WANING. LONDON, July 9. The “Cologne Gazette” reports that a distinguished German from the Par East describes the Czecho-Slovaks as a splendid force. The phwer of the Bolsheviks is everywhere waning, and it no longer exists in Siberia. Despatches received in Tokyo from Vladivostock state that furious artillery firing and street fighting preceded the overthrow of the Soviet. A Bolshevik steamer, received many shots, and escaped in a crippled condition.

CZECHO-SLOVAK’S HIGH IDEALS

Received 9.5 a.in TOKIO; Jisy 10

The Cze cho-Slo vaks ’•' aim' is to have a new Provincial Government established at Vladivostock, the convocation of an assembly : and the restoration of law and order Their flag has two stripes—white and green, representing snowclad mountains and plains of verdure and mighty forests. The programme includes the liberation of Siberia frpm the Bolsheviks, avoiding if possible foreign intervention, the establishment of Provincial Councils, Labour Bureaux,-,.distribution of land, control of economic activities and universal suffrage. It wishes to be the first democratic state in Russian history and the forerunner of the regeneration of Great Russia. The Government will continue to fight the Central Powers, the people to a man supporting the new regime. CZECHO-SLOVAKS’ SUCCESS AT* VLAD IV OSTOCK. ,V L ADI VO STO CK, July ,9. S The Czccho-Slov-aks, : under General Dietrichs, after disarming the Bolsheviks here, moved westward and encountered, ncajr ] \a largo force of Austro-German prisoners and Bolsheviks troops. A battle resulted in a heavy enemy defeat. General Dietrichs occupied Nicholaicvsk and disarmed.the population ! ■ ■■■* THE COUNTER-REVOLUTION. LONDON, July 9. Newspapers accept rosdrved.y the Bolshevik statement that the counterrevolution has been suppressed. Sunday’s reports, which arc the latest received, do not support this. Newspapers demand decisive Allied action. THE BOLSHEVIKS’ ONLY OPTION LONDON, July 9. Mr Shaplin, the United Press correspondent at Stockholm, says that the Bolsheviks will either accept German demands arising out of Mirbach’s assassination or ’abdicate. LENIN AND TROTSKY REFUGING AMSTERDAM, July 9. According to Holland’s Nows Bureau Lenin and Trotsky have refuged in the Kremlin (Moscow) and soldiers are guarding all the streets thereto. The Social Revolutionaries arrested the Prefect of Police and are holding him hostage. WHOLE COUNTRY IN FERMENT LONDON, July 9. Telegrams from, Russia, mostly coming from Berlin arc scrappy and hazy Apparently the whole country is in a ferment. There has been further fighting at Omsk, and heavy fighting with the Cossacks in the Don. The situation at Moscow is obscure The Bolsheviks arc- terrified at possible German reprisals for the murder of Mirbaeh. They wholesale arrests of leaders of parties opposing their regime.