RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 May 1918, Page 1

RUSSIA.

NEW, PEACE TERMS DEMANDED. Copenhagen, April 30. The Aftonbladet learns from Finland that the new counter-revolution Government at Petrograd refuses to accept the Brest Litovsk peace and demands new peace terms, including a provision that Esthonia shall remain under Russian rule. PREPARING TO RE-ENTER WAR. New York, April 30. The United Press Petrograd correspondent reports that Russia is preparing to re-enter t.ic war. The plan the Executive Council has adopted is universal military training between the ages of 10 and 40, and conscription of all workers and peasants. Militarv experts and the best army officers "have been called into the service. The plan is expected to furnish a large army in ten months. Allied representatives attended the council meeting. The Soviet Government is charged with aiming at its own preservation and not at the defence of Russia. CHAOS CONTINUES. . . London, April 30. The political situation in Russia is obscure. • Newspapers here suspect that the Germans in Finland are doctoring and delaying news from Petrograd, preparatory to some new coup. The Daily Express makes a feature of a Petrograd message dated April 23, stating that the entire Red Army lias been ordered to the frontier to fight against the Finnish White Guards, who are making an effort to occupy Petrograd. The Germans justify the occupation of the capital on the grounds that the Red Army is still aiding the Finnish Red Guards. The Germans are supporting the White Guards, who are now within 85 miles of Petrograd. General Schwartz, the original captor of Przemysl, is superintending the defence of Petrograd. The relations of the Ukraine with Berlin are drift-iug towards a rupture. FIGHTING IN FINLAND. Copenhagen, April 30. It is officially reported that the White Guards have captured Viborg, killing nearly the entire garrison of GOOO Red Guards. Christiania, April 30. The situation of the Red Gnards in southern Finland is critical. The Germans have captured Tavastehus. General Mannerheim reached Helsingfors on Saturday. KORNILOFF'S DEATH DENIED. Amsterdam, April 30. German papers contradict the report of General Korniloff's death. They say he is marching on Orenburg, not with the object of restoring the monarchy, but to convoke a Parliament.