RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 August 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

ANTI-GERMAN HOSTILITY. CZECHOSLOVAKS MOVING ON MOSCOW. BOLSHEVrKS REGARD SITUATION AS CRITICAL. Received August 1, 8.3 j p.m. Copenhagen, July 31. German newspapers are displaying increasing alarm at the anti-German hostility iu Russia, particularly the resistance to German attempts to gain ground in Russian commercial lifo.

Meanwhile the Bolshevik Government openly admits that the Czechoslovak movement is becoming critical. The Czecho-Slovaks are approaching Moscow, which is serionslv threatened. Street fighting occurred in Moscow, but the Government suppressed the revolt.— Press Assoc.

STORM CLOUDS IN UKRAINE. 'FEASANTS RISE AGAINST THE TEUTONS. Received August 1, 5.50 p.m. Amsterdam, July 31. The Hamburg Fremdenblatt states that heavy storm-clouds, are gathering on thj political horizon in Ukraine- The Government is meeting the unrest by numerous arrests.

General von Biahorn was promoted to field-marshal in March, when he ordered the Ukrainian peasants to cultivate noblemen's estates in order to feed Germany. Those refusing were flogged and imprisoned, with the result that guerilla warfare has broken out, the peasants enormously damaging the proprietors' estates.

General Eichorn's assassin gives the name of Boris Daske, agent of the Social Revolutionary party- He came from Moscow a few days ago, and says he was instructed by the Central Committee to kill Eiohorn, Jie being furnished with a borcb, revolver, and money.—Times Service;

INTERVENTION IN SIBERIA. CAUSING ALARM IN GERMANY. Received August 1, 7.50 p.m. Paris, July 31. Japanese-American intervention in Siberia is causing the liveliest alarm in Germany, compelling a change in strategy. Herr von Hintze has arrived at the main headquarters, and is conferring with the commanders. —United Service.

Received August 2, 12.5 a.m. New York, August 1. The New York Times' Washington correspondent says the State Department has furnished the Japanese Government with information asked for regarding certain points in President Wilson's views regarding joint intervention in Russa. The entire matter is now hefore the Japanese Foreign Office, which must decide if the American plans meet with Japanese views. The correspondent adds that he authoritatively learns that the Entente is organising military forces for joint action, anticipating a satisfactory conclusion of the negotiations between Japan and the United States.—Press Assoc.

ALLIES' EMBASSIES. ORDERED OUT OF RUSSIA. Received August 1, 7-35 p.m. New York, July 31. Advices from Kandalaska (Russian Lapland) say that the Allied Embassies, which recently left Vologda for Archangel, were not permitted to remain at Archangel, tat were ordered to proceed to Kandaiaska. The diplomats left Vologda when warned by M. Tchiteherin, who urged the Embassies to go to Moscow; but the invitation was refused.

It was the Soviet Government at Archangel which would not permit the diplomats to remain. Tl'.o New York Times' Washington correspondent states that the State Department officials are unable to throw any light on the movement of the Allied Embassies to Kandaiaska- Some of the officials assumed that the diplomats were leaving Russia for a Pacific port. —Press Assoc.

BOLSHEVIKS DENOUNCED. THM MASSES' ON THE (POINT OF RISING. Received August 1, 10.30 p.m. Stockholm, July 31. Representatives of the Russian Social Revolutionary and Social Democratic parties have arrived here. Prior to proceeding to England and France, they issued an appeal to the Socialists of Europe emphatically denouncing the Bolsheviks as despotic reactionaries, find declaring that the overwhelming mass of Russian peasants and workmen are not only anti-Bols'hevik but are on the point of rising against Bolshevik tyranny. The above-named parties therefore propose the creation of an international commission of , representatives of all Socialist parties to visit Russia and inquire fully into tlia effects of Bolshevism.—Router.

CHOLERA IN PETROGRAD. Received August 1, 7.50 p.m. Amsterdam, July 31. Cholera in Petrognad is continually increasing. There were 170 cases recorded on the 20th and 209 on the 21st.—Reuter.

UKRAINE DICTATOR KILLED. BOMB THROWN AT HIM. Amsterdam, July 31. An official message from Kieff, via Berlin, says that Genera! von Eichorn, the German dictator in the Ukraine, Was returning to his house in the afternoon with his adjutant, Captain von Dressier, when some men drove closely past in a cab and threw a bomb. Both German officers were seriously wounded and subsequently died. The assassin and the cab driver vrere arrested. Inquiry established that the crime originated with the social revolutionaries in Moscow.— Reuter. A REIGiX OF TERRORReceived August 1, 11.55 p.m. Amsterdam, July 31. In consequence of General von Eicnorn's assassination, a reign of terror prevail? in the Ukraine. The authorities arc searching houses and making wholesale arrests, including the first secretary of the Hetman's Government.—Press Assoc,

VON EICHORN'S SAVAGERY. Received August 2, 1,25 a.m. London, August 1. The Daily Mail states that even the Germans shuddered when General vori Eichorn gas-shelled the Ukraine villages and machine-gunned meetings of peasants, whose enforced enlistments were equivalent to slavery.—United Service.