RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 March 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

MINISTERS AT VARIANCE. OVER AMERICAN INTERVENTION. TROTSKY AND CAPITALISTIC AMERICA. Received March 21, 5.30 p.m. Ottawa, March 20. The United Press correspondent at Petrograd states that the Foreign Minister, M. Tschicherin, declared the Soviet Commissioners were considering the possibility of the United States opposing intervention in Siberia. He said he believed negotiations for that purpose between the United Slates and Russia were possible. Trotsky opposed Tseli-icher'-n, declaring that Russia should not be under an obligation to capitalistic America. Moscow. March 18. M. Trotsky, interviewed, said the Allies' invitation to .Japan was a great error, and America would be sorry first. Germany and Japan, according to his information, were securely agreed to divide Russia qn the basis of the interests of each. He added that the Soviet's Executive had decided to make the Urals a defensive base. Tokio, March 18. Replying to hecklers Count Terauclii, Prime Minister, stated that final arrangements had not been reached, nen<»ing diplomatic reports from Petrograd. which are expected soon. POLISH REVOLT. AGAINST THE CENTRAL POWERS. Washington, March i? 0. IT. Padcrewski has received a cable from M. richon stating that the Polish revolt against the Central Powers is rapidly extending. There, have been violent demonstrations in the occupied portions of Calicia against the cession of Kholm. Polish Parliamentary Clubs in Vienna and elsewhere' passed resolutions against the Central Powers and outbreaks are reported at Posen. Several prominent Poles in Vienna have returned their decorations to the Emperor.

THE ENEMY ADVANCE. OUTFLANKING MOSCOW. Petrograd, March 20. Despite the peace treaty enemy operations are continuing. It is suspected that the intention is to outflank Moscow. Trotsky has arrived at Moscow. London, March 20. The Daily Express Petrograd correspondent. reports that it is believed the peace treaty contains a German offer to exchange Russian war prisoners if the whole fl-.-et is given tip. Tfas'nlngton, March 20. The American State Department's report from Sweden show that the Germans requisitioned food supplies in the Aaland Islands, ..causing famine conditions. Oflicial dispatches from France state that Germany invited Sweden to send a representative to Brest Litovsk to consider the Baltic question, particularly th(j future of the Aaland Islands- Sweden did not reply, whereupon Germany occupied the islands. Petrograd, March 20. The newspaper, Pravda says:—"Rus- ! sia is split up, enslaved and humilated. [This is all the revolution has accom- ' plished, but we must contirtue to fight, making out motto 'victory or death.'" Amsterdam, March 21. The Socialist deputy David caused a sensation in the Reichstag by declaring that the German delegates at Brest Litovsk surrendered to the militaristsGeneral Hoffman threw in the victor's sword, turning the scale for the treaty and causing widespread indignation in Germany. The nation doubted the honesty of the German policy and could not reconcile Count Hertling's promises of self -determine tion with his acceptance of the militarists' demands. Their enemies were now welded more closely in the west, while the east was smouldering. The German policy in Finland would result in the most acute anti-German feeling.

GERMAN PRISONERS ASSISTING. SOCIALIST DEPUTY CAUSES A SENSATION. '• Pekin, March 20. It is reported that two thousand German prisoners assisted the Bolsheviks at Blagwestchenski. Petrograd, March 20. An American mission is going to Siberia. to investigate the reports about afmed prisoners of war. It is officially announced tflat the Soviet authorities in Siberia, have concluded an agreement with the Chinese Government regulating frontier questions. THE SEAT OF GOVERNMENT. MAY BE SHIFTED EAST. Petrograd, March 20. If the enemy operations continue the Government will probably be transferred to Saratoff or to Nijni Kevorod. Tli- Patriarch of the Russian Church announces that the church cannot support a peace which threatens to dismember the country. . '1 '>ree commissioners who were entrusted with the reorganisation of the nsvy have been mysteriously murdered. REGROUPING GERMAN ARMIES. London, March 20. The Germans are regrouping their commands on the west front. Hitherto three armies, but now four armies, will be commanded by Princes Rupprecht and Albrecht., the Crown Prince and General von Gall wit?