RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3345, 25 November 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA.

RUSSIAN PROBLEM. ' STOCKS DOWN TO RECORD V M ‘DEPTHS. -_ MOST CONFLIC-TING_ ItJI)POR'I‘S. LONDON, Nov. 23. Sensational I'umoul's are agitating Russian stocks, which, after the spccu-~ lative rise in September, have sunk to the lowest point. recorded. Au unconfirmed roundabout message from Helsingfors declares that an army of insurgent peasants s:lcked Toburg. Ural, and surrounded Moscow. Another message reports that the Japklnese have had secret negotiuations with the Soviets, which the Japanese Amb:'lssadol’s exnphatically deny. _ Petrograd is prec'a.l-iously maintaining life by burning -wooden houses, doors, and wood blocks from the streets. VPeasant armies in _=\Sl'l‘lll{llall and Kaluga are trying to break through to join Deniken. Mr Wilton reports from Riga that Kiltchak has arrived with -his staff at Tatarsloc, a. hundred miles east. of Omsk. The army is retiring in good order, V Litvinofi’, on behalf of. the Bolslle—viks, has been discussing peace with the Baltic. ‘States at Dorpat. The Esthon_ieans ofttcially state that Litvinofl otfered as -at guauuitee of peace ‘to surrender the Bolshevik fleet. in the Gulf of Finland, and to- establish :1 neutral zone between Bolshevik Russia and the border state.