RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 June 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

GERMAN AGGRESSION. TO BE RESISTED BY RiOSSIAMS. MfffUTT.TiS ATTfW DECIDED UPON. Received June 18,,8.43 pan. London, June 18Wireless Russian official: —M. Tchitcberf announces that th o military authorities In tha Voronezh region report that the German command has proposed a new (boundary. Negotiations thereon with the Russian command have not resulted in an agreement. The Germans on the 15th June started aii offensive in the regions of Varniaka and Rostov, and are also advancing to-day in the Vetlnisk region. Juveneff has issued a proclamation addressed to all on behalf of the people's commissariat of war, ordering the mobilisation of peasants 'who are not employing others who were' born from 1858 to 1097 inclusive, residing in fifty-one specified districts of twelve provinces and territories. Siberian, Orenburg, sad Cossack troops have accepted. The men are to remain on active service for six months, being fed, clothed, and paid on the terms prevailing in connection with the Red Army^ FRENCH AMBASSADOR ARRIVES. Received June 18, 7 30 p.m. Moscow, June 17. M. Vulenti, French .Ambassador, has .arrived. The German propagandists had reported that he would be recalled — Keuter. i

! MORE COMPLICATIONS. A DRASTIC RESOLUTION. Received June 10, Ij3o a.m. London, June lg. The Press Bureau reports that a Russian wireless message states that all thq Russian central executive passed a resolution. on June 14 which declares it is .being attacked 'by international imperialism on all fronts and the coadjutors thereof. Russia, therefore, expels from the committee the representatives of revolutionary Socialists, also the Right and Centre and Mennheviks, and recommends their expulsion from the local Soviets, because they organised an armed revolt in conjunction with Kaledin and Kornilofl 1 in the Don and Dutoff districts, in the Urals, in Sejoff, Ifhoevat, and Koltebak, in Siberia, and lately -the Czech-Slovaks and Bijrtkhand.