RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 July 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT. Amsterdam, June 30. The Vossische Zeitung announces that the Constitutional Democratic leader. M. Milinkoff, formerly Foreign Minister, and the Octobrist leader, M. Gutchkoff, have arrived at Harbin and placed themselves at the head of the counterrevolutionary movement.

A Harbin correspondent confirms the statement that Austro-German exprisoners have occupied Irkutsk.—Reuter

THE BLACK SEA FLEET. Amsterdam, June 30. A Berlin semi-official dispatch describes the events leading to the seizure of the Black Sea fleet. It alleges that ;n contravention of the peace treaty, the fleet continued its activity, and the principal units went to Novocherkassk after th? German occupation of Sebnstopol. Acute differences of opinion on board ships led to the dreadnoughts Svobodnaja and F.ossa being torpedoed by the destroyer Tertsch, while several destroyers were forced to run ashore. However, the dreadnought Volia, and several modem destroyers returned to Sebastopol on June lit, where the entire Black Sea Beet, still fit for war purposes. is now under German control.

Vienna reports that the Emperor Karl again refused to accept the resignation of the Seidler Ministry, and annonnces the convocation of the Reichsrath for July 16.—Aus. X.Z. Cable Assoc.

FIGHTING IN FINLAND. Christiania, June 30. The Tidens Tegen states that a body of Germans are advancing up the Passic valley on the Finnish-Norwegian frontier. A Russian force from Petehenka is engaging them.—Reuter. Paris, June 30. The Matin states that Hungarian troops which recently came from Russia were infected with Bolshevism and mutinied in the garrisons at Pex and Gyoer. Two hundred officers have been sentenced to death. The mutinous spirit is largely extending in the army,— Renter.

THE EX-CZAR. London, June 30. The fate of the ex-Czar remains in doubt. Unconfirmed reports declare that be is safe. Amsterdam, June 30. Advices from Moscow via Berlin, dated June 24, state that the President of the Ekaterinburg Soviet says that the rumors of the murder of the ex-Czar are lies designed to incite the public.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.