RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 June 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

GERMAN PENETRATION. A BOISHEVIK MANIFESTOURGES ABHED RESISTANCE. 0 Received June 11 LIS ajn. London, June 10. A telegram from Kharkoff statesthat the Germans have occupied the railway junction of Lisky near Yoromsh, to which the Soviets had fallen back from Moscow on the 31st, as already had been done at Petrograd. All the chief Moscow newspapers have been suppressed. A Bolshevik manifesto calls the workmen and peasants to arms for bread for their children, fathers, and mothers, and urges armed resistance against the counter-revolutionaries and conspirators, and adds:—(Death to the enemies of the people."

THE VAST PROBLEM. SOME SOLUTION MUST BE FOUND. GERMANY AFLAME WITH DREAM OS" THE EAST, Received June 11, 12.30 ajn. London, June 9. Dr- Harold Williams, in an article, 9ATs thai although Russia has gone out of the war, she yet in a very real sense remains in. We shall have made sacrifices iii vain unless we find some solution of tho new and vaster Russia problem. Americans may pour in their millions on the Western front and may rout tie Germans, but, apart from tho reconquest of' Russia for the Allied causa, we cannot win the world war. Germany's ambitions are aflame with a new dream of the East, and iihe Kaiser i%. hastily gathering m the Czar's heritage with all its inexhaustible resources otf the Eurasian plain. Russia has no <3overnment at present. The Msheviks am not a Government, but an lnhiibi;