RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 June 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

SITUATION DESPERATE. OVERTHROW OF BOLSHEVIKS EXPECTED. HUNDREDS STARVED TO DEATH. Received June 28, 10.5 pjn. Helsingfors, June 27. The situation in Russia is desperate. The overthrow of the Bolshevik regime is expected soon, accompanied by bloody street fights. The Red Guards at tPetrograd are already firing on the population at the slightest excuse. The new Siberian Government refuses to provide Russia with grain while Lenin remains a ruler. Hundreds are starving to death daily. The people's only cry is for bread. Thousands of Russians are digging trenches from Pargala to the Finnish Gulf, the reason being unknown, but Finland is watching the movement with anxiety .—Press Assoc.

FINNS AND GERMANS ADVANCING. JAJPAN'S TERMS FOR INTERVENTION. BATTLES RAGING. Received Juno 28, 5.5 p.m. New York, June 27.

Doscli Fleurot, cabling to the New York World from Murmansk, .Russia, Bays that the Finns and. Germans are steadily advancing on Russian territory towards the Marmansk railroad. They are also advancing along the Torneo and Koeda rivers and from Kopia, via the Kem river. The forces are now approaching in the direction of the White Sea. The Councils of Workers and Peasants in northern Russia realise they can only he saved from German enslavement by Allied help. Germany is not keeping the Brest Litovsk treaty, as the Germans took part in operations against Britain both in the Ukraine and Finland. The Germans' present endeavor is to cut off all communications between Petrograd and the Arctio ports.—Presa Assoc.

A Stockholm message says representatives of the Siberian, Chinese, and Japanese Governments are holding a conference for the purpose of bringing the Chinese and Japanese to aid in the war against Germany in Siberia. Japan is asking privileges in the exportation of minerals from Siberia in return for assistance.

The Bolsheviks are sending Red Guards to villages to forcibly, seize bread from the peasants. Battles are raging in the Olentska, Viatka, Kurak, Sinibirsk, Kasan, Kosbromakasan, Riazian, and Orloff districts. Hundreds of peasants and Red Guards have been killed.

The Baltio sailors in Petrograd revolted and demanded the abdication of the Bolsheviks.

Workers exploded munitions.and powder stores in Odessa and Benderi to prevent their seizure by the Germans. Many were killed. —United Press.

KERENSKY'S VIEWS. RUSSIA BLEEDING AT EVERY (PORE GERMANY'S MACHINATIONS Exposed. Received June 29, 2.5 a.m. London, June 27. M. Kerensky, speaking at the Labor Conference, said the interests of the Allied countries were inextricably inter, woven with the fate of Russia. It could not be a matter of indifference to the Allies to-day that Russia was bleeding at every pore. She still opposed the enemy's invasion. The Russian people never recognised the treaty of Brest Litovsk, which hurled Russia into the abyss of annihilation. It was a thousand pities that the warning voices coming from Russia were not heard by the western Allies, and that the treacherous calls for peace by Germany were not unmasked. The mass of the Russian soldiery, importuned by German agents, were taken in by false appeals, only to have placed on their backs all the bitterness and hor» rora of a German peace. M. Kerensky proceeded to disclose the German machinations in Ukraine, where her interests were continually played off against some other interests. The rights obtained by the revolution were withdrawn by the dictatorship. He was astonished that any serious European political people should consider the Bolshevik regime democratic. The Bolsheviks were responsible for the present state of Russia. He might be asked how the conditions were maintainable if the whole population were opposed thereto. This was partly attributable to international conditions of warfare, (but was mainly due to Bolshevism, whose strength lay in the disorganisation of the worn-out masses of soldiers, whose declining morale eventually became the vanguard of triumphant German Imperialism. At present it was an advantage to Germany to maintain disorganisation and anarchy throughout Russia. To reach her aim Germany must paralyse the Russian centre. Therefore, the fate of the Russian people was of special significance and value to the whole world.

KIEFF NEGOTIATIONS FAIL. POLES REFUSE TO WORK WITH GERMAN TROOPS. Amsterdam, June 27. The Lokal Anzieger states that the negotiations with the German and Polish military authorities failed, the latter refusing to "work with. German troops Consequently tho demobilisation of the German cog» c«toiahHßrote& -■