RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, 22 July 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

BOLSHEVIKS CO-OPERATING WITH GERMANS. FREE USE OF RAILWAYS. Received 9.30 a.m. (Delayed in transmission) NEW YORK, July 16. Mr. Shaplin, the United Press Stockholm correspondent, states that the Russian Press expects German occupation of Moscow and Petrograd, due to rapid developments in the Murman situation. The Bolsheviks are co-operating with the Germans, permitting them to travel northward by the Murman railway through Petrograd and Zvanko Junction. Cholera has appeared in many cities besides Petrograd. BOLSHEVIKS AND CZECHOSLOVAKS FIGHTING. Received S.lO ■ LONDON, July 21. A Vladivostok correspondent states that 40,000 Czecho-Slovaks hold the railway between Samara and Irkutsk, Twelve or fourteen thousand Czechoslovaks from Vladivostock are fighting the Bolsheviks at Khabaraovsk. They occupied Spaskai after a stubborn fight, and propose to link up with the Czecho-Slovaks from Ukvatk. There are forty-seven thousand Bolsheviks and ex-prisoners between Khabaroosk and Irkutsk. EX-CZAR OFFICIALLY MURDERED NEW YORK, July 20. A Russian wireless announces that the ex-Czar -was shot because the counter-revolution was seeking to restore him to power. When Katerinburg, the capital the Red Urals, was threatened recent-

ly by advancing Czecho-Slovaks seeking to liberate the Czar, the president of the Ural Regional Council decided! to shoot the Czar. The decision was carried out on July 15th. The Empress and her son were placed in safetv.

Wireless Russian official —The Central Executive Committee has made public a message from the Ural Regional Council concerning the shooting of the ex-Czar, which says: Ekaterinburg being seriously threatened by the approach of the Czechs-Slovaks, and simultaneously a counter-revolu-tionary conspiracy to wrest the cxr Czar from fc the Council’s authority being discovered, the Ural Regional Council therefore decided to shoot the cs-Czar Nicholas, which decision was enforced on the 16th inst. HIS CORRESPONDENCE TO EE PUBLISHED. Received 10,20 a.m. LONDON, July 21. - A wireless Russian official message states that the ex-Czarina and son has been sent to a place of security. The Central Executive Committee are in possession of important documents concerning the ex-Czar’s affairs, including cx-Czarina’s diaries and his correspondence including Rasputin’s letters to the ex-Czar and family. All will be published shortly.