RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 September 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

FIGHTING IN SIBERIA. SUCCESS OP THE ALLIES. New York, Sept. 1. The -Peking correspondent of the New York Times states that General Semenoff has captured Borzie station. The Bolaheviks are burning villages and retreating along the Onon river. The Washington correspondent of the sf«w York World states that official adtie* from Russia reports that the flow of Russian recruits to the German army has ceased since the arrival of Entente troops at Vladivostock and the spread of Entente propaganda work. New York press despatches from Archangel state that Nicholas A'assilovitch Tschaikoriky, president of the new sovereign Government of Northern Russia, has appealed fcr more Allied troops M a nucleus for the formation of a Russian army to fight the Germans and Bolsheviks, The Archangel correspondent of the United Press states that, according to information received by the American Ambassador. Mr. Francis, the body of trio *x-Emperer Nicholas was not found when the Cwcho-Slovak troop? entered Ekaterinburg Nicholas was killed by the commandant when tie soldiers refused to Obey orders to shoot him. The Vkdivostoi'k corres] ;ndent of the United Press state.* that the Entente and Czceho-Slovak troops fought the Bolaheviks and Red Guards on the LVstiri rivet and drove the enemy back 13 miles. taking prisoners and booty. The AWhinglon cnrre-p™d-'.n of the New York Tim:s states thai information has been received stating that it is imperative ti at arm?, mid ammunition be dent to the Czecho-Sioiaks before the winter, which sets in in six week*. Hence it may he necessary to send en vzpedi k tionarr force through Manchuria vra Khailar and Tiirga towards China, and thence along the Siberian railway to Lake BtiVnl and Irkutsk. The State Department has received from t' r e American Charge d' Affaires at Stockholm saving be has received telegram* from the .American CnnMil-G.-m-ral (Air. Poolei at Moscow, stating tliat 95 American' havo left Moncew for Petrograd. Mr. Poole h rsmainiog in Moscow.—Aus. N.Z. Press Attociation. THE BREST LITOVSK TREATY.

Cocoiilng A n, Aug. 31. i Two additional prcv>ir.v..» of the Brest ] treaty provide that Esthonia and LiTriia shall Le iadep-ndent, but Russia ha* epc'ired p. commercial arrangement with Baltic Russia. 17 c treaty also Hi'V'tiowlrdsr:* the State of Georgia. Prsfia '.'ive; Oermnnv the greater part i/ till" <v<Mn* prod'Tf-tron in the L'aku ui-trict. flso pays German 1 ;>i indemnificC'jti of <ir. milliards of marks.—Au--. XX Cabin Af«oc. TROUBLE AT KIEFF. Bern?. Sept. 1. f'-i«ov,- jsnw-rs re;:orf grave events at ■■ :<!■'. >'"in-<Tr>ii* arrfst-- have been made, ■•.iiviird-- •::r. y,l led, End an entire y\iarter Vjl.li.ed .-■!'«■ 'tfr. DEAD. Amsf-rdam c «;.t. 1. A M.->r"ow inpssag- r *r.lc- thm f."nin. r.fi.'v ,-.'r.---'n'.' r. mt-?tir.: of l-.V-rtrs. '.v;:< 'topped 1-y tv.'o vo:i:-n. -n'nn <\U- '. i ••ssed the recent decrrc- n> to *he im- - ortatiop of foodsti;fl* iiuo Moscow. Staring th n interview .. yoi:r.jr girl, of f li" intellectual class, f.red throe -hots. .woundiw? Lenin in the shoulder tin 1 \rrtgg. The girl was arre'trd r-nd declared that -he was a Social J>vo!'itlon.irv Turin's condition is serines. A«nlh»r account states t'-at tin- shots •veri» fired bv two women Social Revolutionaries.—Reuter. London, Sept. 1. ]>nin is dead. RUSSIAN* OP AND DUKE JOIXS BRITISH ARMY. Copenhagen, Aug. 31. Finnish newspapers state that the Grand Duke Dimitri Paolovitch has joined the British troops in Russia. He in mentioned ai a candidate for the Russian throne.—Ans. XJZ. Cable Assoc. GENERAL BRUBILOFF IMPRISONED. Received Sept. 2, 1150 pjn. Amsterdam, Sept. 1. General Bnuiloff has been arrested and Imprisoned in the Kremlin on suspicion of tiding in a>. counter-revolution Time* Servioe. TBB REVIVAL OF VODKA EVILS. Rome, Sept. 1. According to German newspapers, peasants ra the Ukraine, Central and , Southern Russia have used at least twothirds of their grain to make vodka. A UllUiaaart distilleries are working, and any attempt to raid and destroy them Mgasttttfaee conflicts. The peasants an *4) anatd, and use machine-guns Bad total*. Despite its high price, vodka •Makers unbar mHltons, with the result jLfMltn b a rerival of the old evils ■■- "MmSmUm, raroial to work, rioting,