RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 June 1918, Page 7

RUSSIA.

TRIAL OF EX-CZAR. jiiUME riIuMISKI) .REVELATIONS London, June 1-. The Daily Express.' Petrograd -correspondent bays the forthcoming indictment and trial of the ex-Czar promises to he sensational llio .Moscow Soviet is collecting telegrams and letters sent to European nionarchs, including the Kings of Italy, Bulgaria, Greece, Belgium, and Germany, also to Rasputin and M. Poincare. The most remarkable item in the indictment alleges that the ex-Czar had a secret understanding with tie Kaiser, amounting to a verbal alliance against France and England, Nicholas promising iiot to hamper the German military mission in Turkey.—Aus N.Z. Cable Assoc. CZECHO SLOVAKS. FIGHTING FOE BOTH SIDES. London, June 12. Delayed* Russian messages indicate that fierce fighting has taken place in different parts of Siberia and European Russia between Czecho-Slovaks and the Bolsheviks. The former, although prisoners of war, are bitterly hostile to the Central Powers, but it is impossible to gauge the full significance of the encounters. German and Magyar prisoners assisted the Bolsheviks at Penza, on the Moscow-Siberia railway. 220 roilesnvestward of Samara, which another Czech force is threatening. The Czechs captured Penza and subsequently gave up their prisoners, except the Germans and Magyars, whom they intend to shoot. It is reported that a force of Czechoslovaks cut tho railjvav line in the southern Urals. Similar insurrections arc occurring in many Siberian towns between rival bands of released prisoners.—Aus. N.Z. Caible Assop.

PETROGRAD IN TURMOIL. HUNGER AND DISEASE. London, June 12. The Morning Post's Stockholm correspondent reports that Petrograd is in a state of turmoil. Tho Soviet is only supported by a dwindling number. Lettish soldieira and the population are dying of liunger. Smallpox and typhus are raging.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Association. CABLE BROKEN IN TWO PLACES. Tokio, June 11. Tho trans-Siberian cable has broken down westward, also eastward, of Irkutsk.—Aus. "SX. CaWe Assoc.