RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 March 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

DELIVERING RUSSIA. INTO THE ENEMY'S HANDS. Washington, March C. The United Press reports that aut'h-orita-ii' advices have been received here stating that Lenin is attempting i to deliver Russia into Germany's hands and trying to arouse the Russian people against the "Allies' militarism." London, March fi. The 'Daily Express Petrograd correspondent says that Lenin's peace terms have caused a storm of indignation among the local Soviets, who were not consulted. They fear the terms mean thai mailed fist will crush the revolution, cripple Russian industry, and alienate the sympathy of European workers. Maxim Gorky's newspaper is particularly bitter. It calls the treaty a criminal scrap of paper, and wonders why the Lenin Government is still in power. FINLAND INDEPENDENT. TERMS OF THE TREATY. Stockholm. March fi. The act of liquidation between Russia and Finland was signed on Friday. Russia cedes the territory bordering on the Arctic Ocean to Finland and gives up the Valkeassari-Petrograd railway. Russia retains the fortress of lino. Germany action is causing agitation at Helsingfors, and the president of the Revolutionary Government has declared that the whole Finnish population will resist aggressionA GERMAN EXPLANATION. AS TO FORCES AT AALAND. Renter Service. Received March 7, 11.43 p.m. Amsterdam, March 7. Berlin has announced that German naval forces anchored at Eckerse in the Aaland Islands on March f>. It is officially explained that the force is destined to establish a halting place in connection with the despatch of assistance to Finland. KRYLENKO'S INQUIRY. WHY FIGHTING IS PROCEEDING. - Received March 7, 5.50 p.m. London, March C. A wireless Russian report states: General Krylenko, in a message to the Ausfro-Germali army chiefs, complains that the troops are still fighting in Janburg, Orsha, and Komelbriansk, and inquires whether a cessation of hostilities has been ordered. SUPPLEMENTARY TREATIES. INDEMNITIES FOR DAMAGE. THE GERMAN SCREW TURNED. Received March 7, 8.33 p.m. Amsterdam, March 0A Berlin message states that supplementary Russo-German treaties guarantee Germany free commercial intercourse in Persia and Afghanistan, via Russia; indemnification for damage to consular property and private property of German subjects; also the cancellation of the order annulling the payment ■ of German loans. The agreement per-. mits Germany to organise Spitzbergen. COMMERCIAL RELATIONS. RUSSIA IN GERMAN CLUTCHES. Received March 7, 11.20 p.m. 1 Amsterdam, March 7. A Berlin semi-official report states that the economic and political appendix to the Russian peace treaty generally restores the Russo-German commercial treaty of 1004, and secures direct commercial connection with Persia and Afghanistan. It protects Germany against increases of Russian duty until lilij, and restores all German private rights, including the earliest payment of debts to German creditors. Both parties undertake to organise Spitzbergen according to German proposals. PETROGRAD BEING EVACUATED. GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS REMOVED. Reuter Service. Received March 7, 7.50 p.m. Petrograd, March G. Apparently the Government has resolved to evacuate tho city and establish the Stale institutions in Moscow, Nijni Novgorod, and Cagan. The Ministers for Foreign Affairs and Roads have left. The population is hastily departing in all manner of vehicles. A MONARCHICAL REACTION. CZAR'S RESTORATION PROBABLE. Received March 7, 7-50 p.m. Berne, March fi. The Neucste Nachrichten, in an inspired article, states there is a strong redaction in Russia in favor of a monarch. It is probable the Czar will he restored under German protection.