RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 July 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

, FATE OF THE ROMANOFFS. BOLSHEVIKS WANT IT SETTLED FINALLY. Received July 3, 8.30 p.m. Copenhagen, July 2. The Bolsheviks are growing, impatient at the frequent alarms about the dynasty, and are raising questions ot settling the fate of the Romanoffs, so as to be done with them finally.—Tunes, BRITISHERS EXPELLED FROM FINLAND. EX-CZAR'S MURDER DENIED. Received July 3, 8.5 p.m. Copenhagen, July 2. The military authorities in Finland have decided to expel all Britishers. The Petrograd Soviet Commiasionfrs describe the reported murder of .tft» eiOzar as a base fabrication. The Archbishop of Perm has been arrested in connection with the escape of the Grand Duke Michael, whose wife (Countess Brasova) was arrested at Petrograd.—Times Service. A BOLSHEVIK PROMISE.

TO HAND CZEOHO-SLOVAKS TO GERMANY. SAMARA OVERTHROWS BOLSHEwas. PEASANT MOVEMENT IN UKRAINE. Received July 3, 9.5 p.m. London, July 2 The Daily Chronicle's Stockholm correspondent, learns from a Russian source that the Bolsheviks, in response to an urgent demand, have promised to disarm and hand over the Czechoslovaks to Germany. The Bolshevik Government in Samara has been overthrown. Some members of the Constituent Assembly formed a Provisional Government a,nd issued a proclamation that they would exercise power until the Constituent Assembly meets. Travellers state that the Ukraine peasant movement is rapidly growing against General Skoropadsky, and the Germans' General Staff is leading the movements under a Russian general.— Reuter. ANOTHER GERMAN SCHEME. Moscow, July 2. The Germans have hurriedly carried out a scheme for dismembering the Caucasus. It includes an independent Armenia, the re-establistaent of an independent Georgia, and the establishment of a new State including Baku and part of the Ellsabetpol district.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. GERMAN ADVANCE TOWARDS MURMAN. Washington, July 2, Official French advices received here state that 40,000 Germans and Finnish mercenary troops are concentrating at Viborg preparatory to a drive on the Murman coast and Kola.