GRAVITY OF EVENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 July 1918, Page 5

GRAVITY OF EVENTS.

GERMANS NEARLY REACH THE ' VOLGA. ', THE MENACE TO INDIA. • ; Received July 14 1 , 11.20 p.m. London, July 13. The news shat the Allies are landing an army for protecting the Murman railway draws attention to the gravity of ths events in Russia. There are 35 i] German and 15 Austrian divisions be--0 tween Finland and the Black Sea. Gcr,l man divisions are approaching the Murman railway from Finland, and divisions ]. moving East in other directions seriously threatens Allied interests, They have ;. nearly reached the Volga and gained the 3 rich Don territory, aiming at the Baku A oilfields, possession of which opens the route to Central Asia and the Indian frontier zone. The obscurity of Russian newa complicates the situation, but it is believed that the Bolshevik army, maximum •60,000, is unlikely to fight—United Sor. vice. EX-CZAR ALIVE. ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF FAMILY FEfUSTBATED. Received July 14, 11.00 p.m. . London, July 13. 'A Petrograd paper publishes a letter from the ex-Czar, contradicting his re-, ported murder, He states that bandit* _ attempted to assassinate the whole family, but his commissaries bravely frusj trated the outrage. The incident hap seriously impaired the ex-CzarV health. . t—United Service. j SOCIAL REVOLUTIONARIES. 1 , MARCHING ON MOSCOW, i Received July 14, 5.5 p.m. ! Paris, July 12. I Le Matin's Stockholm correspondent states that M- Tchernoff,. leader of the Social Revolutionaries, is at the head of numerous armed bands, chiefly peasants, marching on Moscow, and has reached the environs.—Reuter, ; GERMAN SCHEMES. 1 FOR SUBMARINE BASES. Received July 15, 1.20 a.m. 1 London, July 14. The Germans, with the aid of the Finns, are making efforts to establiah submarine bases on the Murman coast, which is open all the winter, also to cut ' off Russian from the Allies. Further forces are being sent.—(Press Assoc. ■