RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 June 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

FROM WORKMEN AND POORE PEASANTS.

FROM WORKMEN AND POORER PEASANTS. VIGOROUS SUPPRESSIVE • 'MEASURES, REVOLUTIONARY PLOT DISCOVERED. Received May 3, 11.50 p.m. London, June 3. The Press Bureau states that a Rus. sian wireless message reports that the Executive of the Soviets has decided, by 2!) to 5, on the compulsory calling to the armies of the workmen and poorer peasants of Petrograd, Moscow, Kuban and Don regions. It has declared martial law at Moscow, and ordered wholesale arrests of counter-revolutionaries, and taken vigorous anti-press measures. The Executive says that a great coun-ter-revolutionary plot, supported by foreign capital, was discovered at Moscow and Petrograd, ramifying through Russia. This plot was responsible for the mutiny of the Tcheo-Slovak Corps, which captured a railway junction and lines. The large owners in other regions are mobilising the richer peasants to resist the commandeering of flour. Agents in the cities are inciting the starving masses against the Soviets. The depots of flour in the Kuban and Don districts are menaced by a counter-revolutionary bank, which hopes to provoke foreign intervention.

The Soviet is confident that the calling up of the starving people in the industrial and corn-growing provinces will frustrate the plot.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc. and Reuter.

FINLAND'S TERRITORY. A COMPROMISE ACCEPTED. Received June 3, 8-50 p.m. London, June 3. A wireless Russian message states that Mehitaherin lias informed Mirbach that the Russian Government accepts Germany's proposal that Finland should cede to Russia Forfcino and Raivola, while Russia agrees to cede to the western part of the .Murmari coast, with a sea outlet, thus hoping that armed complication and bloodshed will 'be avoided.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assoc. and Reuter. TROUBLE IN MOSCOW. London, June 2. It is reported from Helsingfors that a state of siege has been declared in Moscow. —Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. UKRAINIAN REVOLT. Washington, June 2. The State Department has received advices from the Petrograd News Association that the Ukrainian peasants have revolted and are setting fire to the woods, destroying crops, and refusing to give up agricultural implements to German soldiers, who are using artillery in the attempts to suppress the revolt.