RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, 13 July 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

SIBERIAN GOVERNMENT. READY TO FIGHT GERMANS., ' LONDON, July 11. A member of the new Siberian Government, interviewed in Tokyo, said that the Government aimed at the establishment of a Russian Republic with an autonomous Siberia. It is intended to repudiate the Brcst-Litovsk treaty, rehabilitate the army, and fight the Germans. It would acknowledge the national debt, assuming responsibility for Siberia's share. Stoekhelm advices state that Russian newspaper reports of the Soviet Congress on July 4 shows that Count von Mirbach, German Ambassador, was present, when the Ukrainian delegate, in a violent speech, -protested against the Government's toleration of Mirbach. The social revolutionaries cheered, shouting, "Down with BrestLitovsk, Down with Mirbach" Mirbach finally withdrew as a protest.

KORNILOFF' S PROCLMATION.

LONDON, July 11. An undated telegram from Moscow I states that General Korniloff has is- ! sued a proclamation declaring his willingness to acknowledge the power of the Soviet and command an army against the Germans, also to negotiate for Allied assistance against Germany Korniloff states he is near Rostoff with a large force and asks the population of the Don district to receive him as a friend. AMSTERDAM. July 11 A Berlin message states that members of the committee of Soci'al Revolutionaries, including Count Mi,rbach's murderers, are defending themselves in the municipal theatre in Moscow, which is strongly barricaded. THE MURDER OF THE TSAREVITCH. Received 11.40 a.m. COPENHAGEN, July 12. Swedish papers announce, on the authority of a well-known Swede, from Moscow, that Bolshevik soldiers murdered the Tsarevitch with a bomb.' The locality is not known.