RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 July 1918, Page 6

RUSSIA.

JAPAN'S ttTMtVEJmOIj; I ■ LENIN'S LAMENT'' ! \. (Received 27, 3 p.m. London, July 26. It is officially confirmed that Japan lias decided to accept the American proposal to assist tlio Czedko Slovafc* in Siberia and HarbinGeneral Semenoff has been compelled to fall back upon Manchuria station. His left flank is now inside the Chinese border. Amsterdam, July 26. An unknown band entered the reaidence3 at Ekateruihung' of three Grand Dukes, Igorconstantine, IvorconstanWnovitch and Segemtchaelovitch, and carried them off. Lenin, in a speech at Moscow, said the position of the Republic, was acute owing to the international cpajpHcwtions, It was easy for Russia to begin a revolution but extraordinary difficult to continue or conclude it. United action by the workers of the entire world was essential to victory of the Russian revo- 1 lution.—Press Assoc. ADVANCE OF OZECHO-SLOVAKSi ALLIED LANDING AT MTJRMAN. Moscow, July 25. Official: The Czecho-Slovaks after desperate resistance captured Simbirsk. The Societ army has abandoned the left bank of the Volga. The Soviet's newspaper Pravda de- j clares that the revolt is spreading like an epidemic. Simbirsk's fall increase* the danger and the enemy is numerous and well organised.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. Amsterdam, July 20". The Lokal-Anzeiger states that an Moscow Government regards the Entente landing on the Murman coast as an act of war.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn, JAPANESE INTERVENTION. New York, Julv 26. The World's Washington correspondent states that America's proposal for a Russian settlement contemplates the provision of 00,000 American, British, French and Japanese troops to protect the Economic' Mission and ensure the orderly distribution of the mission's supplies, 40,000 men to operate between Vladivostock and Lake Baikal and 20,000 men between Lake Baikal and the Urals. The commander may be selected by the Versailles Conference and will probably be a Frenchman.--Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.