RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 March 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

ALLEGED PLOTS AND IN- , TRIGUES. DUKE MICHAEL ARRESTED. Washington, March 10. The Petrograd correspondent of the United Press states that the Grand Duke Michael and other officers have heen arrested for alleged complicity in a plot to restore the monarchy. The same agency learns that tiermany, with the aid of Lenin, is endeavoring to cause an industrial revolution in the United States, France, Italy and England. The correspondent adds that Germans proposed to the Bolsheviks that German agents sailing in Russian ships should he sent to the countries mentioned to act as agitators. The attitude of the Russian Government has not been ascertained. 20.000 GERMANS AT AALAND. EN ROUTE FOR FINLAND. ATROCITIES BY RED GUARDS. Copenhagen, March 10. Two thousand Germans landed on the Aaland Islands, hoisted the flay at Ekerse, and built barracks. German destroyers sunk two Russian transports south of the Aaland Islands on Thursday. Two thousand Germans left the Aaland Islands and inarched across the ico to Finland. Greai quantities of munitions and artillery wcrs also transportThe Aftou Bladen learns that in tho fighting on the Aaland Islands th.-> Germans have heat en the Red Guards. Received Mur "i ID. 1.30 a.m. London, Mare!: 11. The Morning Post's Stockholm eoi.espondsnt siates that the German warships Wcstfalen and Rheinland, ivMi five troopships, anchored beside the Swedish squadron at Mnriehamia. The Germans brought 20,000 troops. The Red troops are committing horrible outrages. they nuv/dx-od 003 boar geojsie at Halsingiors a:ul eiseivhere. Drunken Red O'.ards cut out the tongues ■ of pvii-iDiei!, a:» 1 shot a nuv.Lvr .i;' children in the J ):-i:-.-:ice of their mot'iers, and wives in the presence of their husbands. ALEXIEFF'S PATRIOTISM. OVKKTHOvV'INH Till- Bi.H,StLHVIfCi. London, .uureh 10. Enlightenment regarding the intern-, al political situation in Russia is afforded by Professor Kleccf!'. of Moscow University, who iias interviewed on his nvrival at Cbristiania. He stated that a representative conference at Moscow had decided to organise a National Guaid with the object of overthrowing the Bolshevik gimeGeneral Alexieir was organising a great army in the Don district. Thousands were joinin<r, _juid the Cossacks were supporting the movement, which aims at the formation of a Coalition Government, the introdvclion of a republic, and the repudiation of the Rus-■■-o-Gcrmar-. peace. The Bolsheviks' position had become very weak after the peace with the Central Powers. ■ Tho foregoing facts have hitherto been suppressed in Petrograd. POSITION IN SIBERIA. STRONG COSSACK FORCE. NO URGENT DANGER FROM GERMANS. Received March 11, S p.m. Pekin, March 10. Semi-ollkial: General Semenov, the Cossack leader, has been patrolling the Siberian railway as far as Kariinskaya junction. He commands a strong and disciplined force, and is awaiting guns and supplies. The recent retirement was temporary and due to a lack of artillery. The Bolsheviks, under German officers, have some artillery, but are undisciplined and discontented. They have reached Daouriya, 50 miles from Manchuria. Many Cossack landowners have returned from Russia, and, having seen tho anarchy there, are anxious to cooperate with General Semenov and prevent Bolshevik domination at all costs. There is little doubt that General Semenov, when better equipped, will collect forces sufficient to control the situation until there is a more serious development. The threatened stocks at Vladivostpck do not seem to be in immediate danger. They are reachable through Manchuria. As the Amur railway is practically suspended owing to the shortage of coal and rolling stock, the Germans are unable to be seriously aggressive in east Siberia while the western railways are disorganised. Pro-Ally Russians at Peking, while admitting the Japanese threat is proving a useful deterrent, state that the fear of intervention might throw Russia into Germany's arms. The Japanese press now generally suggests that a military expedition at present is unnecessary. Government action is thus hamperedA PROTEST TO RUSSIAReceived March I>, 725 pan. London, March 10. Russian wireless: M. Tcherin protested ' to the German Government against the introduction of German troops In Finland and the Aaland islands. ROUMANIAN PEACE TREATY. London, March' 9. A Russian wireless message states that a (Russo-Roumanian peace has been concluded. The conditions include the early evacuation of Bessarabia by maniaFRIGHTFUL TURKISH ATROCITIES. Petrograd, March 10. The Turks massacred the remain population of Trebizond- Many we i incinerated. A number of children v ( tied in sacks and thrown into the si I All the women,' evoti young children, were ill-treated. S-iue Armenians were crucified, '