RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, 2 September 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

FIGHTING IN SIBERIA. ALLIES STEADILY ADVANCING. WASHINGTON, August 30 Vuadivostock Bed Guards and other enemy forces attacked along the TJssuri front. The Allies repulsed the attack and more than 400 of the enemy were killed. Americans did not participate. The Japanese took the heaviest part of the fighting. They captured two armoured trains and several field guns. A Japanese report says the Allies are steadily advancing. JAPS ASSUME OFFENSIVE. TOKIO, August 30. It is officially estimated that the Bolsheviks a.nd Germans on the Ussuri front number SOOO men, with 14 field guns. The enemy on the 23rd inst. attacked Czechs holding the left wing and forced them back. Japanese stopped the enemy and assumed the offensive on the 24th, driving them north.

RUSSIA AND GERMANY. A HUGE INDEMNITY ARRANGED. GERMANY WANTS BAKU OIL. Received 9.15 a.m. COPENHAGEN, August 31. Additional provisions of the Brest Treaty provide that Esthonia and Livonia be independent, but Russia has secured a commercial arrangement with the Baltic; Russia also acknowledges the state of Georgia. Russia gives Germany the greater part of the naphtha production in the Baku district, also pays Germany an indemn*fication of six milliards of marks. VARIOUS ITEMS FROM RUSSIA. ; Received 1Q.5 a.m.., ; ~, „ - \. NEW: YORK, Sept, 1, , The New York "Times" Pekjn ;correspondent i states ; that. .Semenpff. -has captured Bcrzie ,Station. The Bolsheviks ,are burning villages, and. retreating along the Amur River. The New. York "World's" corresposx-. dent states official,.advices, from .Russia states the flow-: of Russian recruitsto the German army has,ceased.since the arrival of the Entente troops' a*; Vladivostock ,and the spread of Entente propaganda work. New York press despatches from Archangel state that Nicholas Vassilovitch Tshchaikowsky, President cf the new Sovereign" Government in Northern Russia, has appealed for more 'Allied troops as the nucleus for tbe formation of a Russian army to fight the Germans and Bolsheviks. The Uuited Press Archangel correspondent states that according to information received by the ' America** Ambassador in France trie body of the ex-Emperor Nicholas was not found when the : Czecho Slovak troopg entered Ekaterinbur'gh. Nicholas was killed by the co'niamnd'ant when the soldiers refused the order' to shoot him. "V '• • ■'--'••

A ROYAL DUKE JOINS BRITISH FORCES. Received 10.10 a.m. COPENHAGEN, Sept. 1. Finnish papers state the Grand Duke Dimitri Pavlovitch has joinew the British troops in Russia. He is mentioned as a candidate for the throne. AN ALLIED SUCCESS. SLAVS WANT ASSISTANCE. Received 10.25 a.m. NEW YORK, Sept. 1. The United Press Vladivostcck correspondent states the Entente and Czecho Slovak troops fought the Bolsheviks and Red Guards on the Ussurriverj and drove the enemy back fifteen miles, taking prisoners and booty. The New York "Times" Washington correspondent 'states information has been received stating it is imperative that arms and ammunition be sent to the Czecho Slovaks before the winter in six weeks hence. It may be necessary to send an expeditionary fores through Manchuria via Khailar Turga towards China, thence along the Siberian railway to Lake Baikal and Irkutsk.

The State Department has receiver despatches from the American Charg* d'Affaires at Stockholm saying he has received a telegram from American Consul General Poole, from Moscow, saying 95 Americans left Moscow for Petrograd. Poole is remaining in Moscow. GRAVE EVENTS AT KEBFF. - Received 11.5 a.m. BERNE, "Sept. 1. Cracow papers report grave events in Kieff. Numerous arrests have been 'made and hundreds expelled; one entire ouartcr is i*olr. ■?.

LENIN SERIOUSLY /WOUNDED BY TWO WOMEN. Received 11.5 a.m. AMSTERDAM, Sept. 1. A Moscow message states that Lenin after addressing a meeting of labourers, was stopped by two women, who discussed the recent decrees re the importation of foodstuffs at Moscow. During the interview a young girl of the intellectual class fired three shots, wounding Lenin in the shoulder and lungs. The girl when arrested declared she was a social revolutionary. Lenin's condition is serious. Another account states that shots were fired by two women social revolutionaries. VODEA. IS KING! Received 11.5 a.m. ROME, Sept. 1. According to German papers the peasants in the Ukraine and Central and /Southern Russia have used at least two-thirds of the grain to make vodka. One thousand distilleries are working Any attempt to raid and destroy them results in fierce conflicts. The peasants are well armed, and use machineguns and bombs. Despite the highprice Vodka drinkers number millions, resulting in the revival of the old drunkenness and the refusal to work," rioting and debauchery.