RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, 2 August 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

UKRAINE'S GROWING RESENTMENT. - i AMSTERDAM, July 31. ■, The ‘ ‘ Hamburg Frcmdcnblatt ’ ’ states: Heavy storm cloud? are gathering on the political horizon. In Ukraine the Government is meeting unrest by numerous arrests. Von Eichom was , promoted to field-marshal in March, j He ordered the Ukrainian peasants to < cultivate noblemen’s estates in order to feed Germany. Those refusing were ■ flogged and imprisoned, with the result that guerilla warfare has occurred . and peasants are enormously damaging the proprietors’ estates. ( THE RUSSIAN SITUATION. REVIEWED BY GENERAL MAURICE. Received 8.40 a.m. LONDON. August 1. The murder of von Eichorn, the Military Dictator of Ukraine, which has caused official consternation In official circles in Germany, has focussed public attention in Britain and France upon the Eastern question. Brigadier-General Maurice says: The veil which has long shrouded the East is gradually lifting. What we are allowed to see is as full of encouragement as the dramatic operations of the Czech-Slovaks in Siberia and in the south-eastern corner 0? European Russia. The appearance or the Allied troops on the Murman coast and the resistance of the Armenians at Baku, coupled with the decline or the Bolsheviks and the troubles in which the Germans are involved in the Ukraine, show that the treaty of Brest Litovsk is likely to be quickly valueless . It is improbable the Germans hoped for territorial aggrandisement in the west, except a rectification of the frontier, gaining the Briey mineral fields. Germany has looked eastward for expansion^ PROTECTING ALLIED MISSIONReceived 10.10 a.m: WASHINGTON, .August 1.. America, Japan and l England have already sent troops to Vladivostock to protect the Allied ; mission to Russia. ALLIED EMBASSIES. TURNED OUT OP ARCHANGEL. NEW YORK, July 31. Advices from Kandalaska (Russian Lapland) say that the Allied Embassies, which recently left Vologda for Archangel, were uot permitted to re- • main at Archangel, but were orderee to proceed to Kandalaska. The diplomats left Vologda when warned by Tchitcherin, who urged the embassies to go to Moscow, but the invitation was refused. It was the Soviet Gov- ■ ernnaent at Archangel- 0 which would , not permit the diplomats to remain. The New York “Times’ ” Washing- : ton "correspondent states that the State Department officials are unable . to throw light on the movement of the Allied Embassies to Kandalaska. I Some assumed that the s diplomats were leaving Russia for a Pacific port.

RUSSIA TURNING. COPENHAGEN, July 31. German newspapers are displaying increasing alarm at the anti-German hostility in Russia, particularly the resisting of German attempts to gain ground in Rus'sian commercial life. Meanwhile, the Bolshevik Government openly admits that the Czechoslovak movement is becoming critical. The Czecho-Slovaks are approaching Moscow, which is seriously threatened. Street fighting occurred in Moscow, but the Government suppressed the revolt. THE BOLSHEVIK CURSE. STOCKHOLM, July 31. Representatives of the Russian Social Revolutionary and Social Democratic Paries have arrived prior to proceeding to England and France. They have issued an appeal to the Socialists of Europe emphatically denouncing the Bolsheviks, as despotic reactionaries, and?- declare-,, that an overwhelming m«s of Russi..-,.u. peasants and workmen are not omy antiBolshevik, but on thd point of rising against the Bolshevik tyranny. The above-named parties therefore propose the creation of an international commission, representative of all Socialist parties, to visit Russia to enquire fully into the effects of Bolshevildsm. MURMAN AND SIBERIA. LONDON, July 31. A manifesto by the Independent Labour Party pretests that the Allies’ expeditions in Murraan, and Siberia are being carried out in direct opposition to the Russian Government’s wishes, and have created alarm and resentment among the mass of the Russian people. They are supported

istic .classes and a few Liberal Socialist supporters of- Kerensky’s administration, INTERVENTION IN RUSSIA. ENTENTE ORGANISING MILITARY FORCES, NEW YORK, August 1. The New York 1 ‘Times” Washington correspondent says; The State Department. has furnished the Japanese Government w r ith the information asked for, regarding certain points in President Wilson’s views regarding joint intervention in Russia. The en> tire'matter is now before the Japanese : Foreign Office, which must decide if the American plans meet the Japanese views. The correspondent adds that he authoritatively learns that the Entente is organising military forces for joint action, anticipating a satisfactory conclusion of the negotiations between Japan and the United States. CELEBRATING UKRAINE’S NATIONAL DAY, BY MURDERING GERMANS. Received 11.20 a.m. AMSTERDAM, August 1. The day on which von Eichorn was murdered was Ukraine’s National Day. A widespread plot intended to murder five other leading Germans, also General Skoropadsky. Many members of the Ukraine revolutionary organisations were arrested. REVENGING BIGHORN'S MURDER. DEMAND THAT TROOPS BE SENT Received 11,20 a.m AMSTERDAM, August 1 Berlin papers demand that troops be immediately sent’to Russia, declaring that if Germans cannot be sent the Austrians must go under German commanders. A TYRANT’S END. LONDON, August 1. The “Daily Mall” states that even the Germans shuddered when, von Eichorn gas-shelled Ukraine villages and machine-gunned meetings of peasants, whose enforced enlistment was equivalent to slavery. REIGN OF TERROR IN UKRAINE. AMSTERDAM, August 1. , In consequence of von Eichorn’s as- . sassinatiou, a reign of terror prevails • in Ukraine. The authorities are . searching houses, and there are whole- . sale arrests, including the First Sec- . rctary of r.etmau’s Government. ; THE ASSASSIN’S IDENTITY, 1 “ AMSTERDAM, July 31. I Eichorn’s assassin givtjs the name of Boris Daskc, an agent of the Social Revolutionary Party. He came from } Moscow" a few days ago, and says he 3 was instructed by the central commlt- . tee Of tlie party to kill Eichorn. He was furnished with a bomb, a revolver 5 and money.