RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, 10 August 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

THE JAPO-AMERICAN EXPEDITION FOR SIBERIA. —, Received 10.45 a.m. WASHINGTON, August 9. Major-General Baker and anotherJapanese ranking officer commands the Japanese-Axnerican Siberian expedition.... ..... . , • . -hi i ojy ?! G-JT- —r: 'THEpARCHANGEL LANDING. 1 ; ALLIES GO SOUTH. LONDON, August 8. After the landing at Archangel the Allies advanced southward along the Vologda railway. The opposing force, supporting by Germans, offered resistance five miles south of Archangel, Avards Obozerskaya, seventy miles but were driven back and retired tosouth of Archangel. Some Germans and war material were captured. The Bolsheviks are withdrawing as , the Allies are advancing along the raihvay tOAvards Vologda. The occupation' of Archangel Avas skilfully prepared and carried out with complete success, notAvithstanding a Bolshevik proclamation exhorting the troops to massacre Allied subjects. The railway line is noAV clear for sixty-six miles despite Trotsky’s order to destroy it. THE CZEOHO-SLOVAKS. LONDON, August 8. The Bolsheviks are trying their utmost to overwhelm the Czccho-Slovaks before the Allies can succour'them. It is reported that Germany has agreed to no further adA r ance on the cast front, enabling the Bolsheviks to concentrate in the Volga region against the Czechs. The situation at Baku is precarious. The Turks arc advancing against the Armenians, determining to exploit for their own benefit. CHAOTIC STATE OF RUSSIA. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF LENINISM I The chaotic state of affairs in Russia, Avas referred to by the Hon. T. M. Wilford, in the course of his lecture at the Lej r s Institute last evening. Mr Wilford said that Lenin’s assumption of a right to make peace for Russia was farcical, for his party governed neither in Pctrograd ■ nor in Russia, Lenin was not a pacificist, but the theorist of a world-wide war of classes. He would not set nation against nation but class against class. Any attempt at compromio with Lenin would be useless. This class militancy didided Kerensky from Lenin, for the latter stood for the exclusive interest of one class, Avhilo Kerensky stood to unite all classes Kerensky feared civil war, Avhile Lenin counted on it. To-day the Bolsheviks and Germany had a common fear —that a strong Government might arise in' Russia. ! That ■ Avould ean a. drain c:i Germany ’s forces : on the’ Avcstcrh front, and an earlier • collapse 'thad would otherwise e'ven- :• fuate.' - i;