TRIAL OF EX-CZAR.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 May 1918, Page 5

TRIAL OF EX-CZAR.

DETAILS OF CHARGES. Received May 21, 8.30 p.m. Petrograd, May 20. A Moscow telegram states that a Bolshevik commission, presided over by General Krylenko, ordered the trial of the ex-Czar, on charges including the causing of a coup d'etat, changing the electoral law of the Duma, and illegally disbursing public funds. An escort of Lettish Rifles has been sent to Tobolsk to bring the ex-Czar to Moscow.—JJnited Service. MOSCOW ANARCHY. ORDER RE-ESTABLISHED. Received May 21, 8.20 p.m. Petrograd, May 20. It is officially announced that the anarchist movement at Moscow has been suppressed. Eighty anarchist organisations have been dissolved, and over 500 members have been arrested. Order was re-established after severe gunfire, causing serious damage. The Soviets have proclaimed Russian Turkestan a republic.—Onited Service. A BOLSHEVIK SUCCESS. COSSACKS AND CHINESE JOIN FORCES. Received May 21, 8.20 p.m. , London, May 20. The Bolshevik troops have captured Oerentkapoe and Petrovsk. It is reported from Manchuria that SemenofTs Cossacks have joined forces with the Chinese detachments.—United Service. MORE BROKEN TREATIES. London, May 20. A Russian wireless message states that the Germans in the Reval region violated the boundary fixed on March 6 and advanced eastwards, despite the protest of the Russian commander and Foreign Commissary, who requested the withdrawal of the troops. The White Guards at Helsingfors executed the Russian Fleet Commissary, Jemtehujin, on the pretext that he was conducting a revolutionary campaign among the German marines.

The German commander replied to the protests of the Russian admiral that Jemtchujin had outlawed himself by inciting a mutiny, consequently his execution was exclusively a Finnish affair.— Aus. X.Z. Cable Assoc. and Reuter. SERIOUS FIGHTING AT BAKU. Petrograd, May 20. The Germans have occupied Bjorko, on the Gulf of Finland south of Viborg. The Soviet forces at Baku are in deadly conflict with the Mussulmans. A Moscow paper states that 2000 have been killed and 3000 wounded in various parts of Baku, including the inhabitants of entire streets, and the Persian Bazaar ii burning.—Reuter.