RUSSIAN CRISIS.

Taihape Daily Times, 20 September 1918, Page 6

RUSSIAN CRISIS.

THREAT TO NEUTRALS. j COPENHAGEN, Sept. 17. Replying to neutral diplomatists’ protest against Bolshevik terrorism, Tchichcrin indignantly resents their action. He adds: I will regard future interference as an attempt to support the counter-revolution. Carl Ignatius, representative of the Finnish Government, has returned from a visit to America. He reports that the American Government refuses to recognise Finnish independence or to send food to Finland until all German soldiers leave, INVITATION TO THE LION'S DEN. LONDON, September 17. The official Russian delegates to the Labour Conference are delayed at Stockholm. They telegraphed referring to the sanguinary Bolshevik orgies and the unspeakable suffering of the people and appealing to the Western proletariat to send a commission to investigate the Soviet Government’s .policy and the attitude of the people thereanent TURN OF THE TIDE IN SIBERIA. AMSTERDAM, Sept. 18. Moscow reports that Alexicff has j taken the offensive against the 80l- j sheviks near Blagovestchonsk with consierable Cossack forces and strong detachments of White Guards. VLADIVOSTOK, Sept. 18 It is reported that a strong representative Government has been estab-

lished at Omsk. Central and West Siberia are now free from the Bolshevik—war prisoner danger. Comparative calm prevails. The Russo-German front has been re-established on the line of the Don territory - Saratoff Samara - Penza Vologda. The Germans are moving up troops from the occupied territory. It is urged that the Allies should despach forces to the Urals before Germany anticipates them.