RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 February 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

PROTEST AGAINST TERRORISING. ROUMANIANS BREAK RUSSIAN FRONT. London, Feb. 5. A Roumanian official message says: We have already broken up the Russian front in 'Moldavia. Roumania lias protested against Kusf.ian terrorisation and the wholesale arrests of prominent Roumanians, especially in Odessa. SITUATION IN FINLAND. DECISIVE FIGHT EXPECTED London, Feb. 5. A Haparanda message states that the situation in the north of FinlaiVd is cri"tical. A decisive fight is expected momentarily at Uleaborg. Russian Commander-in-Chief, prisoner. POLAND'S INDEPENDENCE. "NEITHER A STATE NOR A "KINGDOM" Received Feb. 0, 8.55 p.m. ' Amsterdam, Feb, 5. A message from Brest .Litovsk states that, replying to the Russian demand for |Polish independence, Dr. Kuhlmann said ho could not understand why Trotsky separated Poland from western border nations. He asked whether Trotsky was willing to acknowledge their independence, and added that Poland was neither a state nor a ' ingdom and did not possess geographical boundaries, but the German Government did not desire to act arbitrarily; it only wished to examine the status of the Polish Govern-, ment.

. Count Czernin considered the last argument was useless, as the Russian republic did not possess determined frontiers. Dr. Kuhlmann soon after departed for Berlin. BOLSHEVIK ASSURANCES. REPORTED DEFEAT OF KALEDLX* Rcceived»Feb- 6, 11.40 p.m. London, Feb. 0. A wireless Russian message denies the statements that terror and chaos ctfist in Petro£rad and elsewhere, and declares that the Kieff Rada has fled. The authority of the KharkofT Ukrainian Council is recognised. Forty-six Cossack regiments in the Don district revolted against Generals Kaledin and Dutoft', who were defeated and fled. A COUNTER-REVOLUTION. SUPPRESSED BY SOVIET FORCES. TARTARS ADVANCING ON SEVASTOPOL. Received Feb. 7, 1.30 a.m. Petrograd, Feb. C. The Bolsheviks officially announce that the Soviet forces suppressed a counter-revolution in the Government of Orenburg, completely defeating General Dutoff's army. A telegram from Sevastopol states that the Tartars have occupied Yalta and are advancing on Sevastopol, dealing mercilessly en route with the Red Guards, sailors and soldiers. BOLSHEVIK GENERAL CAPTURED. London, 'Feb. 5. It is reported that the 'Poles have captared Mohilev and taJcen Krylenko, the