RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 August 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

JAPANESE WELCOMED. TROTSKY'S POWER WANING. lUceived August 28, 1-55 a.m. New York, August 26. Hie United Press's Harbin correspondent »tat*s that Japanese troops have raMhad Zabaikal, and. were welcomed enthusiastically. ' Before continuing his journey to Manchuria, Mr. Joseph Shaplin, the United Ptm4 Pttrognd correspondent, returned 1o New Tot. In an exclusive interview given to the Australian Press Association he said the concensus of opinion in Rmtia wis that Trotsky's power was waning. He was a gifted speaker, but hi* had been nullified because of hi* overweening desire for power. Trotsky still exerts power in the Bolshevik councils, but his influence is negligible compared with that of Lenin, who U the only really strong man in Russia. He possesses great will-power and indomitable energy, and frequently works for more then twenty-four hours Without intermission. He is the brain of th*-Bolshevik party, but, despite his pefaoulity, Bolshevikism is bankrupt, *nd the Government is growing weaker daily.—United Press. MURDER OF THE CZAREVITCH. ANOTHER BOLSHEVIK CRIME. Received August 27, 7.30 p.m. London August 26. The Daily Mail states that a Russian prince has arrived in England, and given authoritative details of the reported murder of the Czarevitch. After the shooting of the Czar the Bolshevik executioners went to the Czarevitch and said: "We have killed your father; a dog's death for a dog." The Czarevitch burst into tears, whereupon a Bolshevik shot the boy dead with a revolverDoited Service. RELIEVING SEMENOFF. JAPANESE AND CHINESE ADVANCE.

Smi FrauUco, Aug. SSI. Aoeording to dispatcbes from Tokio to the local Japanete paper a portion of % JasancM expedition to Siberia, sent thnogn Muehuria, has readied Harbin, tad Chine** detachments have joined the Japanese at Harbin. Tlu forces are proceeding to Manchuria, and are now in th« tWaity in which General SeneaofTs army U laird pmied by the Red Guards. —An*. Ki. Cible Assoc. A United Press Message from Tokio reports that 12,000 of the enemy attacked the Allies on the Ussnri front on ittftday, but wen completely repulsed.— United Service. Washington, August 28. The Red Cross War Council has been H'lrised from VTadivoatock that more than 20,000 children are in the care of the American Sad Croat. flmteeds of wounded Ccecho-Slovalcs ka*t nhW Vladivoetock. They are «>till 4»Umh)ed, after desperate 'fighting against the Bolsheviks and former Austrian and German prisoners. Mtny refugees wen found in a most p;ti4b(e eandhlm Hftag in tents and firdgb't tan along the Chinese railwaf and the Eastern railway west of Harbin. —Ana-N-Z. CUble Asaoc. jftOLSaSVIKS ATTACK WORKERS. Seoeited Angmt tt, 1145 a.mAwtleidwa, August 96., A MHttu conttWt "-fceumd between worteen tad ftoMtattrtncm at Moseow oa Sunday. fMr wananen took otto# in tiw TiQates near tKe ehy, and A* SofaAevfca set flre lb the tUkges— CSble Aasoe.