RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 June 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

LIGHT ON THE SITUATION. EKEffl GEBMAMSING THE qOHMTEY: RAPIDLY EM3TING RUSSIAN'S. ALLIES' PROMPT HEM; NECESSARY. Received June 7 7-20 pm. i London, June 6. A Russian officer, commissioned by the pro-Ally party to present Russia's case to the Allies, has readied London, after several months' travelling via Siberia and India. He eluded Bolshevik surveillance, and had hairbreadth escapes. His life was thrice attempted. He states that Generals Alexieff, Kaledin, and Korniloll and others instructed )iim to make the strongest ap"ipeal to the Allies for armed intervention. Germany was rapidly enlisting in the Russian occupied provinces, building up a large army, and easily persuading -fie peasants to enlist by promises of good pay and loot. Likewise, the Germans were forming a Turkish Moslem army, recruited from Russian TauTanians, under German organisation and leadership, intended for the conquest of India. He absorption of South Russia and the Caucasus was paving the way to a dire menace to Russia's northern sea which is intended to exclude the Allies from sea action. The Bolshevik outcry against Japanese intervention in Siberia is devised to safeguard the East. The educated Russian minority, misunderstanding the Allies' silence and believing they had alienated sympathy, were inclined to accept German domination in preference to misrule, yet they would instantly rally if promised help. Meanwhile Germany rapidly continues the conquest of Russia. The Allie% should not lose a moment. Next year will be too late to intervene.—Times.