RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 July 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

THE GERMAN DEMANDS. BOLSHEVIKS' ALTERNATIVE. ii AMERICAN ECONOMIC MISSION. !l i C Received July 10, 5 5 pm. 5 (i New York, July 9. Mr. Sliaplen, the United States press [ correspondent at Stockholm, says that ( the Bolsheviks will either accept the ,_ German demands arising out of Count ( Mirbaeh's assassination or abdicate. The United Press learns from an authoritative, though unofficial, source at Washington, that America will send an economic mission to Russia, also troops to protect the mission, but there will be no military intervention at present.— Press Assoc. THE USUAL ARROGANCE. Received July 10, 5.5 p.m. London, July 9. The Daily Express' Stockholm correspondent learns from an authoritative ; source that Germany will demand th-j right to police Moscow and Petrograd, also the passage of Germans to Murinan, via Petrograd.—Press Assoc. j BOLSHEVIK STATEMENT DOUBTED. DECISIVE ALLIED ACTION DEMANDED. Received July 10, 5.50 p.m. London, July 9. > The newspapers accept reservedly the , Bolshevik statement that the counter- . revolution was suppressed, Sunday's re- , ports—the latest received —not supporting this. The newspapers demand decisive Allied action.—Press Assoc. ! FIGHTING IN SIBERIA. ] i OZBOHO-SLOVAKS DEFEAT ' BOLSHEVIKS. ' Received July 10, 5.50 pm. ' Vladivostock, July 9. The Czechoslovaks, under General Dletricbs, after disarming the Bolsheviks here, moved westward. They encountered, near Nicholaievsk, a large force of Austro-German prisoners and Bolshevik troops. The battle resulted in a heavy defeat. General Dietrich9 occupied Nicholaievsk and disarmed the population,—Reuter. ARREST OF REVOLT LEADERS. WHY JURBAOH WAS MURDERED. BjUMORED REVOLUTION DENIED. Received July 10, 5.5 p.m. London, July 9. The railwaymen refused to strike as requested by the Socialists. On the eve of the revolt the leaders were arrested. They include Spiridovna, who confessed that Count Mirbach was murdered by the terrorist members ef the party in order to provoke the annulment of the Brest-Litovsk treaty. Rumors of a revolution in Petrograd and JarosUv are denied by the Government.—Ranter. LENIN AND TROTSKY. REFUGE IK THE KREMLIN. Received July 10, 11.55 p.m. Amsterdam, July 9. According to Holland's news bureau, Lenin and Trotsky have taken refuge in the Kremlin, and soldiers are guarding all the streets leading thereto. The Social Revolutionaries arrested the prefect of police, holding him as hostage. THE MIRBACH MURDER. Amsterdam, July 0. Messages from Moscow state that Count Mirbaeh's assassins fled to a building occupied by the Social Revolutionaries, who are defending the place with machine-guns and rifles. The order was the signal for a great counter-revo-' lutionary movement in which the rebels attacked and seized a portion of the city, including the Central Telegraph Office. The Bolsheviks claim to have arrested the leaders of the revolt, except SavinkorT, who was Minister of War in the Kerensky Government—Aus.-NZ. Cable Assoc. Paris, July 9. The Petit Parisien's Petrograd correspondent opines that the murder of Count Mirbach wa s the work of agents of the extreme Monarchists, with the object Of forcing the Germans to seize Petrograd ftnd Moscow. It may result in the removal of German divisions from the West to police Russia. BOLSHEVIK POWER VANISHING. 1 Amsterdam, July 9. The Cologne Gazette reports that a i distinguished German has returned from 1 the Far East. He describes the Czechoi Slovaks as a splendid force. The power s of the Bolsheviks is everywhere waning - and hunger exists in Siberia. <. Tokio, July 9. Dspatches from Vladivostock state that furious artillery firing and street fighting preceded the overthrow of the Bolsheviks. A steamer received many shots, and escaped- in a crippled condition.—Times. UKRAINIAN POLITICS. a Amsterdam, July 94 The Ukrainian Government has resigned.- Renter.

WHOLE COUNTRY IN FERMENT M

THE SITUATION OBSCURE. Received July 10, 7.50 p.m. S London, July 9. Telegrams from Russia are mostly coming from Berlin They are scrappy and hazy. Apparently, the whole country ia in a ferment. There has bejn further fighting tt Omsk, and heavy fighting with the Cossacks in the Don district. The situation at Moscow is obscure. Tile Bolsheviks are terrified at possible German reprisals for the murder of . Count Mirbach, and continue wholesale * Wrests of leaders of the parties opposing * their regime.-—Reuter. J