CZEOHS IN RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, 19 August 1918, Page 3

CZEOHS IN RUSSIA.

BOLSHEVIKS ALARMED. TERRORISM ADVOCATED. NEW YORK, August 1. The report that the Czecho-Slovak troops have penetrated to the Black Sea, in south-eastern Russia, and seized two ’Russian cruisers an tlwf harbour of Novo-Rostok, is the first indication of the presence of Czechoslovaks so far south in Russia. The opinion is held at the headquarters of the Czecho-Slovak National Council that the operations are those of detached Czech bands feeling their way southward in an attempt to get to Prance. Much importance is attached to the despatch, as the possibility is indicated, that the fighters might join the Russians in battling against the Turks in Transcaucasia, and might form a union with the British forces in (Mesopotamia. A Russian campaign with this objective was rapidly gaining success when the Russian collapse came.

Advice state that the guns of one cruiser were turned on the Bolshevik garrison at Novo-Rostok. Another despatch reported the seizure of an armed steamer in the Volga River, between Eybunskein and Astrachan, by Czechoslovaks. A message from Amsterdam says that the official Soviet organ Isvestia reports that the Czecho-Slovaks have captured Ekaterinburg. The Pravada, in an article, says that the Czechoslovak danger is growing like an avalanche. The counter-revolution is extending like an oil blot on paper. A message from Moscow states that the Soviet authorities have again appealed to the provincial authorities to rescue the capital from, famine. Moscow and Pctrograd have already been breadless for days. Reuter's . correspondent at Amsterdam states that a meeting of the Bolsheviks at Moscow, after speeches by M. Lenin and M. Trotzky, adopted a resolution declaring that the Socialist Fatherland is endangered, and that the chief tasks at present were to repulse the Czecho-Slovaks and obtain grain. The working-classes must be roused and armed, and wholesale terrorism must bo practised against the bourgeoisc, who w r erc everywhere joining the counter-revolutionaries. /