RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, 15 August 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

LENIN AND TROTSKY ANXIOUS* LONDON, August 13. It is reported that Lenin and TroJ> sky found Kronstadt unsafe, and have gone to Pskoff, where they will be pro-t tected by German troops. CZECHO-SLOVAKS RECOGNISED, AS A NATIONAL AND ALLIED FORCE. Received 8.50 a.m. ~ NEW YORK; August 14. The New York Times correspondent says the British Government's recognition of the Czecb.o4 Slovaks as a nation and their armies as an allied force waging war against the Central Power is the forerunner of similar action by the United States, DRIFTING TO WAR AGAIN. AMSTERDAM, August 13. The Telegraph states that Germany; will send landstrum troops from. Flanders to Russia. . The Vossische Zcitung" frankly adn mits that the Brest Litovsk treaty is a dead letter and that the situation is drifting towards a renewal of war. COPENHAGEN, Aug. 13, Several thousand armed Ukrainian; peasants are resisting the German attempts to seize the harvest, and sanguinary engagements are proceeding. Fresh German troops have been brderi ed to the Ukraine to suppress the beginnings of a revolution. IN THE ALLIED FOLD. BRITAIN RECOGNISES CZECHOSLOVAKS. LONDON, August 13. The Press Bureau states that the Government has issued a declaration that Britain regards the Czechoslovaks as an Allied nation, and recognises the unity of the three Czech-Slovak armies as Allied belligerents waging regular warfare against Austro-Hun-gary and Germany, Britain also recognises the right of Czecho-SlovaK National Council, as the present; trustee ' of the future Czccho-SlovakS Government, to exercise supreme authority, over this army. AMSTERDAM, August 13 There was an important conference on Russian affairs at the German headquarters, at which Count Hintze ancl Yon Helfferich were present. The Tageblatt demands immediately summoning of the Reichstag to- disPoland. • ■•■;•.'•', Moscow reports via Berlin state that 'the Entente has demanded within-three 'days an •explanation of Lenin's utterance that •' Russia is declaring war. against the French and British imperialism, and also demanded the reason why the French military mission has been forbidden to leave Moscow. LENIN AND TSOTZKY. LONDON, Aug. 13« Official circles in London are unable! to confirm the flight of Lenin and Trotsky, and doubt the accuracy of the report. ';