RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 August 1918, Page 6

RUSSIA.

SPLENDID EXPLOIT OF JUGO-SLAV& ARRIVAL OF ALLIED MISSION. JAPANESE.AMERICAtf AGREEMENT. London, August *2 Renter learns that a detachment of .Tugo-Skvs, all volunteers, who were formerly Austrian-prisoners in Russia, greatly assisted the Allied landing oil the Muruian coast. The/ traversed Russia to Odessa to Archangel, occupied strategical points on the Murmansk railway and 'beat off German and Finnislh assault. Large numbers of these Jugo-Slavs were in a pitiful condition and were collected and sent to Allied hospitals. When reequipped they will prove of the greatest value to the Allied cause.—Reutcr. Washington, August 2 The State Department has received advices from the Amlbassaidor, Mr Francis, from Kandalaska, saying that the Allied Mission, including Chinese and Japanese, have safely arrived at Ivamlalaska. The staffs will remain there. r .

Mr Francis is at the head the mission. which is proceeding to Kola Where it will remain under the protection of the Allied naval and military contingents.

Japan lma accepted the American terms for intervention in Siberia. The primary object i 3 assistance to the Military forces will be despatched immediately.—Aus.-NZ. Cable Assoc.

SIBERIA CLEAR OF BOLSHEVIK® London, August 2 The Morning Post's Stockholm correspondent states that the Bolsheviks have been practically cleared out of Plberia, except from Irkutsk, where fighting is incessant. Strong Japanese detachments arc in Manchuria ready to operate. Japan, Oliina and Amerioa have agreed to support the Omsk Prijvisionl Government.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assoc. SECRET POLICE FOR UKRAINE. Berne, August 2.. Several hundred seercit police have been assembled in Warsaw and arc going to the Ukraine to form a'nucleus of a secret police there. —AuS.N.Z. Cable Assoc. and Renter. A3 REST OF MAX GORKY ORDERED Copenhagen, August 2. The Russian Government has ordcre-J the arrest of Maxim Gorky and suppressed his newspaper. SOCIAL CONDITIONS IN RUSSIA. Milan, August 2.

A terrifying picture of social conditions in Russia is supplied by a wellknown Pole, who, returned from Petrognd, where the people wait in queue 3, sometimes for sixteen hours to secure horrible blade bread mixed largely with straw, hay and sawdust. Meat casts twenty roubles a pound. Crowds search rubbish heaps for foodDeath s occur frequently in the streets from starvation, while t.he cholera mortality is high owing to the absence of medicines and the frightful general conditions. Starved horses employed in carrying corpses are constantly falling in tne streets leaving their ghastly burdens long unburied. Between Petro-tf'-ad anil (he Finnisli border the people lack eve/ bread. The Bolsheviks' excesses are provoking increased popular hostility. The latest local Soviet elections reveal a groat change in sentiment. Wherever a Bolshevik candidate was rejected Lenin annulled t'ue election The Holslievik leaders no longer dare organise demonstrations on their own account, while precautions to secure their personal | safety exceed anything in the history of the Tsars.