RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, 23 June 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA.

‘ THE ALLIES AND KOLTCHAK. "-"ARIS,H:June 20. Replying to Admiral KOl-tchak, the Allies formally declared their policy to restore Peace in Russia to enable her to control her OWII affairs through an elective assembly and arrange boundary disputes through the League of Nations. The experience of the last twelve iiidnuths has convinced the Allies that itiis impossible to do this through the Soviet Government. Therefore they are disposed to assist Koltchak with munitions and food on condition that when he reaches Moscow he will summon :1, democratic assembly or call the 1917 Assembly, pending fresh elections; also that he will not attempt to revive the special privilege of any class or regime destroyed by the Revolution, and that he will uphold civil and religious liberties, The Allies also requige KOlls- - to recognise the independence of Finland and Poland, and autonomy in Esthonia, Livonia, Lithuania, the Caucasus an dTranscaspia' and accept the right of the Peace Conference to determine the future of Roumania and part of Bessarabia. The Allies also require that when Russia.'is reconstituted, she m'll‘join the League 6? violence. Koltchak replied agreeing substantially to the Allies’ terms, except the re-establishment of "the 1917 Assembly which was elected under Bolshevik voilence. ‘ To-day flieflcouncil of Four agreed to support Koltchak; ‘ ; According to other sources of information, the Council of Four will not recogniselioltchak. probably because his reply regarding the summoning of a constituent assembly is ‘considered unsatisfactory, also beeause of his recent defeats. GERMAN oven-runes TO KOLTCHAK. LONDON, June 22 . A Bolshcvik wireless states’: ._T-he >Kaiser’s':~agents at Odessa in February sent. Zinger,-zformer: chief ‘of’ the- Ger.man"se'cret service,- torlioltchak, protposing that the =lattorfco~opel-ate in overthrowing the Soviets‘, then restoring mdnarchies in‘. Gerln.a'il'Y and Russia. ‘ ~ ,