RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, 29 July 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

LENIN DISILLUSIONED. GRAND DUKES KIDNAPPED. AMSTERDAM, July 26. An unknown band entered the residence at Ekaterinburg of the three Grand Dukes Igor Constantine, Ivor Constantinovitch, and Senge Michaelovitch, and carried them off. Lenin, in a speech at Moscow, said that the position of the Republic was acute owing to the international complications, it was easy for Russia to begin the revolution, but it was extraordinarily difficult to continue and conclude it. United action by the workers of the entire world was essential to the victory of the Russian revolution. CZECH PROGRESS. SPREADING LIKE AN EPIDEMIC. MOSCOW, July 26. It is officially stated that the Czecho Slovaks, after desperate resistance, captured Simbirsk, on the Volga. The Soviet army abandoned the left bank of the Volga. The Soviets' newspaper "Pravha" declared that the revolt is spreading like an epidemic, and that Simbirsk's fall increases the danger. The enemy is numerous and well-or-ganised. ACTION IN SIBERIA. LONDON, July 26. It is officially confirmed that Japan has decided to accept the American proposal to assist the Czecho-Slovaks in Siberia. General Semen off. the Siberian Cossack leader, has been compelled to fall back on Manchuria Station, and his left flank is now inside the Chinese border. AUSTRIA AND THE UKRAINE. RATIFICATION OF PEACE TTTEaTT UNLIKELY. *,. Received 9.10 a.m. AMSTERDAM, July 28. Count Burian, speaking in the Reichstrath, said he intended to refuse to ratify the Ukraine peace treaty, as the Ukraine was again striving for union with Russia. PEASANT REVOLT IN UKRAINE. 75,000 PEASANTS DRIVE BACK GERMANS. PARIS, July 27. A peasant revolt on a large scale has commenced in Ukraine. A wellofficered, organised force of 75,000 men, forced German detachments to fall back upon Kieff. LONDON, July 28. A Russian wireless message states: The Ukranian railway employees have struck, the Germans having confiscated the food reserves of the. railway workmen. ~ . , , ....... THE RUSSIAN TRAGEDY. THE POSITION ACUTE. WASHINGTON, July 27. The State Department advises that there is insufficient food supply for Russia's needs. Germany is demanding large quantities from Russia. The position is acute. LONDON, July 28. A Russian wireless report says:— jl Petrograd message, dated July 2, announces that 111 cases of cholera were reported on the 26th inst. THE CZECHO-SLOVAKS. CONSIDERABLE PROGRESS REPORTED LONDON, July 27. The Czechs have considerably progressed from Vladivostock. They are trying to join hands 'with the Czechs in the West. The former advanced twenty-seven miles from Nikolsk, ana the forces under Semenoff retired into Manchuria before a strong Bolshevik force. The latter did not attempt to follow. JAPANESE CO-OPERATING. PARIS, July 2,7. The "Petit Parisien" states: Japanese detachments landed as Vladivostock weeks ago, and are co-operating with the Czecho-Slovaks north of Nikolsroossurisk. BOLSHEVIK DECREES ANNULLED PEKING, July 27. The Provisional Siberian Government at Omsk, in a proclamtaion, declares that independent Siberia annuls the Bolsheviks' decrees, orders the closing of the Soviets, the restoration to land-owners, pending a settlement of the agrarian question by a constituent Assembly; and requests the Siberian Government at Vladivostock to approve of its action.

GAINING STRENGTH. SHANGHAI, July 27. Ussurisk Cossacks have joined the Czecho-Slovaks, whose eastern army is preparing to advance on Irkutsk. Drastic changes have been effected in the personnel of the Siberian Government.