RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 July 1918, Page 7

RUSSIA.

» BOLSHEVIK TRAITORS. '■ FACILITATE GERMAN ADVANCE. New York, July 16. i Mr. Shaplin, the United (Press Stockholm correspondent, states that the • Russian press expects the German occu- ! pation of Petrograd and Moscow. This is ! due to the rapid developments of tho Murman situation. The Bolsheviks are co-operating with ! the Germans and permitting them to travel northward by the Murman raili way through Petrograd and Zvanko ■ junction. 1 Cholera has appeared in many cities ' besides Petrograd.—Aus. N.Z. Cable As- '■ sociation. SAFEGUARDING EX'EMPRESS. London, July 21. Russian official: The ex-Czarina and , her son have now been sent to a place of security. The Central Executive Committee is in possession of important documents concerning the ex-Czar's affairs, including his diary and that of the ex-Czarina, and his correspondence, including Rasputin's letter to the ex-Czar and family. . All will shortly be published. SUCCESS OF CZECHO-SLOVAKS. 1 London, July 21. A Vladivostock correspondent states j that 40,000 Czech-Slovaks hold teh rail- . way between Samara and Irkutsk. Twelve or fourteen thousand Czechoslovaks from Vladivostock are fighting the Bolsheviks at Khabarovsk. "They occupied Spasskaia after a stubborn fight and propose to link up with the , Czeeho-Slovaks from Irkutsk. I There are 47,000 Bolsheviks and exj prisoners between Khabarovsk and 3 Irkutsk.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. j FUTURE GOVERNMENT OF FINLAND Copenhagen, July 21. The Bill establishing a monarchy in Finland on the Prussian model has been withdrawn, having failed to secure the 1 statutory majority in the Diet, although 3 the Government is preventing many So- - cialist members from attending.—Aus. i. N.Z. Cable Assoc. . CZECHO-SLOVAKS CAPTURE BIRSK. 1 Amsterdam, July 21. A report from Moscow states that the Czeeho-Slovaks lhave captured Birsk.