RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 June 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

riSfJßfcr.. . THE EX.CZAR MURDERED. BY BOLSHEVIK SOLDIERS. Received June 26, li pan,'. New York, June 25. A message from Copenhagen says that the Russian newspaper Vjia states the Red Guards broke into the residence of Nicholas Romanoff, the former Czar, fit Ekaterinburg, and murdered Reuter. POSITION IN WESTERN SIBERIA./ COLLAPSE OF BOLSHEVIK POWER. CZECH-SLOVAK CONTROL. Received June 26, BJBf.psn. Pekin, June -S6V The Bolshevik power has collapsed in western Siberia. The Czechs and Slov. aks control the Erals-Irkutsk railway, and have established a Government, but 10,000 Austro-Gennan prisoners, under General Taube, are moving against General SemenofPs army, Whose Cossacks are deserting, owing to dissensions.— Times Service. BOLSHEVIKS SUBSIDISED BY GERMANS. TEUTONIC OCCUPATION OF THE ' CAUCASUS. Received June 27, 12.40 ajn. New York, June 25. The United Press Stockholm correspondent states that the Bolsheviks are receiving direct aid from Germany fo» fighting against the Czecho-Slovaks and Siberians. Three thousand Germans landed at ports near Batum. It is believed this is ' the first step towards complete Ooeuj>a> j tion of the Caucasus.—Press Assoc. ■<. CZECHO-SLOVAKS CAPTURE IRKUTSK. Received June 26, 11.25 p.m. London, June 23. Czecho-Slovak troops, under General General Alexieff, have captured Irkutsk. —-Press Assoc. GERMAN KENETRATION. I Received June 25, 10.15 p.m. Londofl, June 25, A Moscow message states that the : Germans landed three thousand troops at Poti, on the Black Sea.—Reuter. { PROTEST AGAINST SUBMARINE \ ACTTVTTY. i Moscow, June 25. ' Replying to M. Tchitcherin's protest ■ against the activtity of German subma- i rines in the White Sea, Germany de- ] clines to guard the immunity of Russian j shipping there.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. ; i