RUSSIA

Taihape Daily Times, 23 September 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA

CZECHS IN SIBERIA. TO BE RELEASED. Received .15 a.m. ’ PARIS, Sept. 22. The Suprenie Council has decided to repatriate all Czecho-S]-ovaks from Siberia immediately. HORRORS or PETROGRAD. ' GHASTLY CA’I‘AS'I‘ROP-HE INEVITABLE. -Received B_elo a..nl, LONDON, Sept. 21. The Times’ Hclsingfors correspondent telegraphs the statement an Englishman named‘ Paul Dukes, who escaped from Petrogred on September 2nd. Thefe was then only a fortnig‘.r..’s supply of fuel and no -hope of move. He says a. ghastly catastrophe is inevitable. Wooden houses have been demolished for fuel. 1\:[1- Dukes gives awful details of torturing an;l exemtioll.=, '.l‘h.e Harvest was v:la_>;:lifi:r:v‘-_t, but the seantiest supply §llr'/1-‘J-s the plurderers. A. railway truck of flour is writh five million roubles. The popu--la.t’iol{_, which now totals 350,000, must pevisln from cold and famine.

i BALTIC‘ STATES AND RUSSIAN Q SOVIET. THE ARMISICE CONDITIONS. T Received 8.40 am. f COPENHAGEN, Sept. 21. 9 The Lettish II1fO1'IY]{1;Ti0n Bureau lsays that the a.l'mist.ice conditivons to be presented to the Russian Soviet by ‘ the three Baltic States include the regulation of the frontier on an ethnographic basis and the creation of a. neutral zone, where a neutral Powerewill m"ilinta.in order. The terms also pro.-' vide for the surrender of the Bolshevist fleet to a neutral Power. ' ‘ THE ANTIV-BOLSHEVIK POLICY.‘ ' COLLA-'PSE'F’EARED. b '_ tA» ~ Receixted 9:15 am. ‘ j ', ' I-lELSTNGFORS, Sept. 21. ‘ It ‘was decided at the Pskotff Centerence that the Esthonian, Lmtavian, and .Lith'uanian delegates meet the Bolshevik delegates at Yuriev in a. fortnight to discuss peace. It is likely Finland may be forced to join, and thus the entire western ant:-.‘:3clshevlk policy will collapre, ieavling it nel.ltr:ll zone where Germany ]l‘l:l_',' secure a predominant influencr in the I‘€a.lti-3.

KOLTCHAK RETIRES IN FAVOUP. OF DENIKEN. . Received 11.25 a_m. LONDON, Sept. 22. The cßolshcvik;~: admit the abanhonment. of vKul-sk, and also report than Koltchak has inforxncd the Allies thaf -he has relinquished the litle of chief ruler in favour of Deniken. BALTIC STATES AND ENTENTE. ' NO SEPARATE PEACE. Received 10.25 am. PARIS, Sept. 22.‘ i It is stated in Conference circles ‘that «he Baltic countries have agreed not to make 21 separate peace with the Boishcviks without the consnet of the Entente. \

THE LATEST FROM RUSSIA_ LONDON, Sept. 21. Aocordillg to Tatest advices negotiations bzetrwecn the Bolsheviks and the "Baltic border States 11-ave collapsed. The Est.llonian.~:, ac-ting also on behalf 0:" Lithuania ,l3a\‘e discontinued the pa:-Icy. The .Lil:h=.ianiall delegates

r:.‘:mt .[litl:uania will never conclude pé-!:‘LC(' with the Bolsheviks who are Ollcmiei of civilisatiun. The Lithuanians are suspicious of tlle‘Poles believing they are in conlmunica.tion wi-t,ll. Lenin_ It is not doubted that Finland will also zefusc to negotiate wllh the Bolslmiks. It is believed at Helsingfors they the Entente has promised to assist the Baltic States if‘ they concimm vszr-1 2:§9.illst the 801--sheviksfi‘ .

A report from F<>tz'ograd says the local Soviet has iauthorised the opening of peace negotiatl'on;-. with the Entcnto on th basis of the Enten’te"s terms. The iistrass in Petrograd is desCribed as frightful. ‘A wireless 11168513/$0 from Moscow states that, replying to an Esthonian request for 3. ful‘t.h_ex‘ delay in the peace "negotiations to enable_ the Baltic S'lat€.~. to reply jointly, the Soviet delegates have (lisc.lainlcd respénsibility for the continuance of hostilities.