RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 August 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

REGENERATING RUSSIA. DICTATOR APPOINTED. | WAR TO BE CONTINUED. Received August 27, 12JO a.m. Zurich, August 25. Tit* Lokal Anxeiger** Moscow correpeftdent state* that the Cadets, the popular Social .Revolutionaries of the Ri||)it, and the Minimalists hare formed a untoA to regenerate Great Russia, exchiding Poland and the Baltic provinces. General Boris Bamelkoff has been Dominated dictator, with General AleiiefTa i rapport. The anion will not recognise i the Brest Lttovsk treaty, and proposes' to continue war against the Central Power».-»Pre«« Association. ACTION OF COUNTER-REVOLU-TIONARIES. LEADERS ARRESTED. Received August 27, 12.30 a.i_ Copenhagen, Aug. 25. The Petr|-rad Telegraph Agency states that the .counter .revolutionaries at Moscow aimed at the occupation of the highest points in the neighborhood of . the city, whence to bombard the Kremlin. The leaders were arrested, and six •hot.—Press- Association. SIBERIA CONTROLLED. BY ANTI-BOLSHEVIK FORCES. Received Ang. 28, 3 p.m. London, Aug. 2a. According to information reaching ofSeal circles; virtual!jr all Siberia is controlled by anti-Bolshevik forces. Irkutsk is Mm only important point in the hands of the enemy. The 6Ut« Department is advised that the new Government at Tomsk is similar to that formed at Vladivostock. Harmony prevails between these two OmbHMSti, who will co-operat« with tli Allies against the Bolsheviks and PrtaaiaM.—Alls. NJS. Cable 'Assoc. THE CZECHOSLOVAK RETREAT. COMMUNICATIONS NOT AFFECTED. London, Aug. 24. Beuter learns that the Czecho-Slovak I withdrawal on the Uaanri front does not > affect their communications, and is not I regarded as a serious check. Moreover, it is Npertcff to-day that the Czechs have captured Verchiittninaki, an importaat centre commanding the railway tunMis sooth of Lake Baikal.—Renter. FAMINE AND DISEASE. WpOLE VILLAGES DYING OUT. Amsterdam, Aug. 24. Betides cholera, famine and typhus are bow raging in Petrograd. In the northern Jtttsaian provinces whole Places are dying oat far want of bread. Practically all :commanicationa of Moscow are cut off. This is partly due to thepassive resistance of tfte railwayman. The counter-revolu-tionaries havi"4Ro*a up nißeious Wipe.—Beater.