RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 April 1918, Page 7

RUSSIA.

THE CONDEST OF FINLAND. MOKE TROOPS ARRIVING. Keuter Service. Received April 12, 5.5 p.m. Petrograd, April ll,\ Thirty destroyers, forty submarines, and fifty transports remaining at Helsingfors have been disarmed, as it was impossible to evacuate them.

A small German force lauded at ,Loivss, between Helsingfors and Viborg. A German squadron with transports is reported to be following; Probably the intention of the Germans is to march northwards out of Helsingfors to the Viborg railway,

A FINNISH TIME SERVES. Copenhagen, April 11General Mannerheiin, of the White Guards, in a proclamation to the 'Finnish army, fulsomety eulogises the Kaiser, the German army, and people. He concludes by welcoming Germany'* brave lighters, and hopes that every Finnish soldier will prove that hj« appreciates the noble German people's sacrifices at a time when they need every man for their own war.

FLEET TO BE DISMANTLED. Washington, April 11. Semi-official advices state that Germany has ordered Russia to dismantle the fleet. The Russians are not resisting the orders.

MASSACRE...QF CIVILIANS. Tokio, April 11. The reports of the slaughter at Blagoveskhensk are confirmed. A Japanese officer who has arrived at Harbin states that 2000 were killed and wounded- Hundreds of civilians were massacred in their homes.

PEACE NEGOTIATIONS WITH I UKRAINE. Moscow, April 11. Replying to Germany's demand for the conclusion of a Russo-Ukrainian .peace, the Government informed Germany that it had sent a message to Kieff on April. 4 proposing that peace negotiations should begin on April 0.

| POSITION AT VLADIVOSTOK. j London, April 11. I Lord Robert Cecil stated that lie had no reason to think that the American Government disapproved of the landing of parties from British and Japanese warships at. Vladivostock to protect the British Consulate and Japanese subjects. The action had purely local significance. "Tokio, April 11.

The Soviet municipality at Vladivostock, in a courteous protest against the Japanese landing, promises to do its utmost to punish and has issued a proclamation to workmen pointing' out the danger of hostility. The town is quiet and no trouble is anticipated.