RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 April 1918, Page 6

RUSSIA.

| A DISMAL OUTLOOK ALLIES MUST STRIKE HARD. London, April 21. The Times Odessa correspondent, who travelled across Siberia, cables from Vokio that it is useless to expect even passive resistance to German penetration. Nothing will induce the Russian soldiers to return to the firing line. The Bolsheviks' adherents would promptly secede if Bolshevism means war. The Russian cities are starving, but Ihe Germans will probably be able to secure large supplies of grain from the peasants, many of whom have buried I heir stores. No doubt the Germans will get picntv of assistance to put the government. machinery in working ot'der. Millions will welcome them. If the Allies decide to strike through Siberia they must strike hard, decisively ?nd impressively. SIBERIAN RESISTANCE. ALLIES' AID NEEDED, New York, Aprli 21. Washington advices to the New York Times say that the Siberian Semistvos hare formed an anli-Bolshcvik Government, which has notified the Allies' representatives in Russia that its objects arc to establish order and preserve the territorial integrity and economic independence of Siberia and resist the Ger-man-Bolshevik peace terms. The Government must have active assistance from the Allies. The Times adds that a report has been received that the Bolshevik Government intends to remove stores from Vladivostock to European Russia. ARMENIAN SUCCESSES. New York, April 21. It is reported that the Armenians have retaken Van. Tartar attacks on Bakit have been repulsed by the Armenians and the rest of the population. FIGHTING IN FINLAND. > Petrograd, April 21. There has been lighting between the Anarchists and Bolsheviks at Veroness, Simbirsk, and RostolT, also between the Wliite Guards and Red Guards north nf Viborg,' which is the only important Finnish town remaining in the hands ot the Red Guards. .