RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, 3 August 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

TERRORISM IN’ RUSSIA. , AMSTERDAM, August 1 Germany is taking vigorous steps to • stamp out the Ukrainian risings.J A , great congress as held in secret at ’i Kioff, with the object of restoring the Russian Empire. It was resolved to organise agitation in all the the Ukrainian centres and enter into negotiations with the Grand Duke Nicholas, The Bolsheviks lat Moscow resolved that the Socialism of the Fatherland was endangered. The chief tasks at present were to repulse the Czechoslovaks, and obtain grain. The working classes must bo roused and armed, and wholesale terrorism must bo prac--1 tised against the bourgeoise. THE AMERICAN-JAPANESE AGREEMENT. ASSISTANCE FOE CZECHOSLOVAKS. Received 9.5 ia.m. LONDON, Aug. 2. The Japanese-American agreement as to action in Siberia has been completed. The main provision is for assistance to be given to the Czechoslovaks. THE ALLIED MISSION. Received 9.5 a.m. WASHINGTON, August 2. The State Department has receives advices from Ambassador Francis, from Kandalaska, saying the Allied Mission, including the Chinese and Japanese, arrived safely at Kandalaska ( cabled on 31st July). The staffs will remain there. Mr. Francis is at the head of the Mission proceeding to Kolo, where it will remain under the protection of the Allied naval and military contingents. JUGO-SLAVS ASSIST ALLIED LANDING. ON THE MURMAN COAST. Received 10.10 a.m. LONDON, August 2. Reuter learns that a detachment of Jugo-Slavs, all volunteers, who were formerly Austrians prisonered in Russia, greatly assisted in the Allied landing on the Murman coast. They trav. ersed Russia from Odessa to Archangel, and occupied strategic points on the Murmansk railway to provide against Germanc-Finnish assaults. A large number of these Jugo-Slavs, who were in a pitiable condition, were collected and sent to Allied hospitals. When re-equippod these men will prove of the greatest assistance to the Allied cause. GERMAN SECRET POLICE FOR UKRAINE. Received 11.20 a..m i BERNE. August 2. ; Several hundred secret police have assembled at Warsaw, going to Ukraine to form the nucleus of secret police there. BOLSHEVIKS PRACTICALLY CLEARED OUT OF SIBERIA. STRONG JAPANESE FORCE IN MANCHURIA. Received 10.10 a.m. LONDON, August 2. The “Morning Post’s” Stockholm correspondent states the Bolsheviks have practically been cleared out of Siberia, except at Irkutsk, where fighting is incessant. Strong Japanese detachments are in Manchuria ready to operate. Japan, China, and America have agreed to support the Omsk Provisional Government. JAPANESE FORCES TO BE DESPATCHED AT ONCE ■ Received 10.40 a.m. •r , WASHINGTON, Aug. 2. . Japan has accepted the American , terms for intervention in Siberia. The primary object is the assistance of the Czceho-Slovaks. Military force* will be despatched immediately. There, are signs that Germany -will adopt an offensive in co-operation with the Finns against the southern . part of the Murman railway before the winter. There is intense hostility among the population against the • Germans. They are averse to the 5 war, and dependent on the Entente I for food. Nevertheless, as the Germans control the Finnish army, there is every reason to anticipate warlike ■ co-operation, The Finnish army- numbers about sixty thousand, whereof about half are able to participate in • offensive operations. • The Ukraine rising has assumed ■ largo proportions, menacing the Aust tro-German communications. The Uk- ’ . rainians have blown up an important bridge south-east of Kioff. The Czechs

are making good progress eastward of Vladivostok. The Bolsheviks’ efforts] to moboliso war prisoners appear to be 1 unsuccessful but the Czech’s situation westward is not so favourable. There is friction between the Turks and Germans iu the Caucasus. The latter are trying to prevent the Turks securing control of the Baku oilwells. There is evidence of growing discouragement among the Bulgarians, chiefly due to German exploitation of food supplies, also increasing hostility towards the Turks, ■and general war weariness. A mutinous spirit is prevalent among Bulgarian troops.