RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, 12 August 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

REVOLTS IN UKRAINE. Received 9.30 a.m.. AMSTERDAM, Aug. 11 Peasants’ revolts continue in many districts in Ukraine, also the looting of German wheat stores. OPERATIONS AGAINST THE ALLIES. ASSUMING LARGE PROPORTIONS. Received ’9.30 a.m;. LONDON, August 11. The Exchange Telegraph’s Tientsin correspondent reports that operations against the Allies are- assuming large proportions, whilst Berlin is directing the movement, and has already armed the prisoners^ LENIN SENDS ULTIMATUM TO JAPAN. CZECHOSLOVAKS NEARING MOSCOW. GERMANY GETTING UNEASY. Received 9.30 a.m. * COPENHAGEN, Aug. 11, Lenin, after a, .stormy meeting of tho Soviets sent an ultimatum to Japan in connection with her intervention in Siberia. The Czeeho-Slovaks are nearing Moscow from the north-east and southeast, cutting off food supplies. German newspapers admit the situation in Russia is critical,, and declare the German Government must prepare for the immediate overthrow of the Bolshevik Government, with the restoration of Entente influence in Russia. The Arbeiter Zeitung’s Vienna correspondent says seventy-four Czechs soldiers were shot on the 29th July for high treason in an attempt against the armed force of the state. DECLARATION OF WAR AGAINST JAPAN NOT CONFIRMED. CZECHO-SLOVAK ARMY NUMBER 100,000. MOVING TOWARDS EUROPEAN ; RUSSIA. Received 11.10 a.m, ; NEW YORK, August 11. I The New York Times’ Washington correspondent says the United States and Allied Governments will not take any special action regarding Tchitcherin’s statement (cabled 10th August). There is no. confirmation of the rumour of the declaration of war against Japan by the Bolsheviks. *The Czecho-Slovak national Council has received reports saying the Czecho-Slovak troops, which recently occupied Vladivostock, are moving westward towards European Russia. The Czecho-Slovak army in Russia numbers more than one hundred thousand trained and equipped men, which will serve under the command of Al- | lied troops in Siberia.