RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 April 1918, Page 8

RUSSIA.

GERMANS AT HANGO. SUBMARINER DESTROYED. Stockholm, April 5. Forty thousand Germans have landed at llango. The Russian commanders blew up the submarines in the harbor in order to avoid capture. llango is only 7.") miles from Helsingfors, where there is a strong force of Russian Red Guards and many Russian warships. The White Guards took a thousand prisoners at Tanmerfoi's. ACTIVITY OF RED GUARDS. DE FENCE OF KUISSIAN ARMEKJA. London, April 5. "Russia is increasingly disinclined to yield to Germany. ' The Russian Red Guards at present are fighting the Germans and White Guards in Finland. The Red s are also fighting (he Turks in Armenia and fighting the Austro-Germans in South Russia. The Reds meanwhile are concerting measur.v; with the Entente for the defence of the Murman railway. Turkey lias expressed willingness to make.concessions to the Caucasian Diet in order to prevent war. She is even ready to give up Tiatoum which she secured by the Brest Litovslc treaty. The Armenian coup at Ezeroum, which the Turks only occupied last month in accordance with the treaty, apparently jeopardises the. occupation of Trebizond. It is understood the Armenians and Georgians have formed a large army to defend Russian Armenia. ' POSITION IN EAST SIBERIA. ALLIES AID NEEDED.

Peking, Api'il 3. East Siberia is in danger of coming under the domination of the Bolsheviks, leaving the door open for enemy activity. Enemy agents have practically a free hand in cast and west Siberia, which are politically distraught. The Russians need the Allies' assistance to coordinate their efforts. Unless this is forthcoming, then the sooner the Japanese intervene the betterTURKS MASSACRE ARMENIANS. / Rome, April .". An Armenian refugee states that the Turks massacred all the Armenians in Erzcroum, totalling 8000. Many women were tied to the rails and killed by passing trains The Bishop of Trobizond, with bis feet heavily ironed, was compelled to walk till he fell dead. ANOTHER SCRAP OF PAPER. PutTograd, April 5. When the German transports arrived at IFango the commander of the Baltic Fleet, sent a deputation to the German commander to ascertain the object of the arrival of the squadron, protesting that it was a violation of the Brest-Litovsk treaty, which guaranteed the safety of the Russian Fleet. GERMANISING RUSSIA. Petrograd, April* 5. The Germans are reaping the fruits of the peace. An ambassador is expected shortly. He will probably be Count von Lucius, known in connection with Protopopopoff, one of the old regime Ministers. • A German newspaper edited by Russians is appearing, and German merchants are pouring into the annexed territories. A German bank has opened at Minsk. German hanks have ottered the Government a loan of a thousand million roubles, ■»uaranlecd by the revenues of the North Siberian railways.