RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 August 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

ANTI-BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION. ALLIES LAND TROOPS AT ARCHANGEL. Received August 4, 5.5 p.m. London, August 3. An anti-Bolshevik revolution has broken out at Archangel. The Soviets have fled, and the Allies have landed troops at Archangel.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assoc. and Reuter. THE LATE EX-CZAR. GERMANY'S MAILED FIST FLOURISHED. Received August 4, 5.5 p.m.

Stockholm, August ". Herr Helfferieh, on behalf of the Government, lias sent a message to Trotsky stating that the murders of Generals von Kiehorn and Mirbach were plotted at Moscow, and demands that the Maximalist Government search for and severlv punish the perpetrators, and also destroy the hotbeds of anti-German intrigue in Moscow and Petrograd.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assoc. and Reuter.

THE RECENT MURDERS. HIS LAST DAYS. Received August 4, 5.5 p.m. Stockholm, Augu.it 3. Commissary Yakovlev, who carried out the Bolshevik orders to remove the Czar from Tobolsk to Ekaterinburg, describes the incidents of the last journey. He received a vivid impression of the Gzar's amazing limitations. The Czarina is altogether different. She is cunning and proud, and exerted a strong influence on her husband.

Upon learning the fate o'f the Czar, she said: "I won't go."' After prolonged family consultations, the ex-Czar prepared for the journey. Cavalry escorted the carriages, and large patrols guarded every halt until the party entrained at Tumen. The Royalties expected insults, and were much surprised at the correctness of the guards' behaviour. \akovlev conversed continually with, the Czar, who never mentioned politics or the war. His mind was centred on the narrow domain of his family, weather and food. Crowds waiting at Ekaterinburg shouted: "Show us the bloodsucker," and refused to disperse even on a threat of machine-guns. The train was thereupon shunted to a neighboring station.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assoc. and Renter.

Received August 4, 5.5 p.m. Paris, August 3. Advices from Moscow state that the ex-Czar's burial-place is a secret. Ten volumes of his diary, covering from his youth until the last days of his life, have been discovered and will shortly be published.—Times Service. Received August 4, 5.5 p.m. Madrid, August 3. On the initiative of King Alfonso, the Spanish Foreign Minister has approached Russia with a view to the removal of the widow and children of the ex-Czar to Spain.—Reuter.