RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 May 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

BEQUESTS ABOLISHED. KURSK MOBILISING* . UKRAINIANS ORGANISING AN ARMY Received May 26, 5.5 p.m. Moscow, May 25. A new decree annuls all testamentary bequests in Russia, making all property pass to the State after the owner's death. The State will provide for necessitous relatives and dependents. The Kursk Council resolved ■to order military mobilisation for defence, owing to the advancing German forces being within twenty-five miles of Kursk. A conference of Ukrainian peasant delegates at Kieff decided to organise an army to defend the revolution and oppose Skoropandski's Government and the Germans.—Press Association.

BRITISH-AMERICAN POLICY. NO INTERVENTION AT PRESENT. Received May 26, 11.15 p.m. New York, May 25. The United States has agreed to adopt a "hands oft"' policy in Russia. While simultaneously offering Russia supplies and any aid possible, there will not be any intervention at present. Britain and the United States have informed Japan of this decision, which was not inspired by suspicion of Japan, but was merely a question of policy.— Press Association. GOVERNMENT NOT RECOGNISED BY BRITAIN. Received May 26, 5.5 p.m. London May 25. Lord Robert Cecil, in the course of an interview, stated that the Government had no intention of recognising the present Russian Government, as it was not satisfied that it was free from German influence, and can hardly be considered as friendly to us, its organs being full of denunciation of Britain.—Times Service,