RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 September 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

CRAVE NEWS FROM RUSSIA as to the safety wmmm. ; ■ ' COLONY. Received Sept. 8, 6.5 jf.nl. London, Sept. 7- ' The Daily Express states that gravj news as to the position of British residents in Russia, received yesterday, caused the authorities gTeat anxiety. The entire colony in Petrograd is under arrest, while thrf Bolshevik 3 in Moscow are acting with frenzied hostility to the British and French. (Details are lacking, tat enough i* known to give rise to the worst {ears.

AMERICANS AND ITALIANS SAFE. >'. ESCAPE JUST ESP TIME. Received Sept. 8, 65 pjn, Copenhagen, SeptSff. . One hundred and ninetyeight mßtty hers of the American and Italian Lsgj&-i tions and the American Bank of Mo% cow, including seven ladies, lave arrW* cd in Sweden. Their arrest was ordered at the same time as that of the British Legation, but they succeeded to escaping from Moscow to Finland. The Russian Government wired asking that' they be sent back, but the Finnish Goternrcent refused decisively, i Amsterdam, Sept- 7. Cora Karlan is dying in Moscow Hospital in consequence of the mob «t« tempting to lynch her when she WWArrested. Received Sept. 8, 6.5 pan'.Washington, Sept; ff. The United States Consul has cabled a statement from Helsingfors saying that the American Consuls and members of the Allied mission of civilian refugees from Russia have arrived safely in Finland. <

THE ATTACK ON THE BRITISH EMBASSY. A TERRIBLE RESULT (POSSIBLE. , Received Sept. 8, 5.5 p.m. Stockholm, Sept. 7, Ransoine, the well-known pro-BoWie-vik correspondent of the Daily News, writing from Petrograd, states that the Moscow paper Pravda gives details of" the search of the British Eiribassy, which resulted in the death of Commander Cromie and three searchers. The Pravda asserts that 40 were arrested at the Embassy, including Prince Shakovs'koi, an extreme eonnter-revo? lutior.ary. Mr Ransome says that the Prince's presence was quite enough to justify the Soviet's suspicions that some sort of dealings were going on with the antiSoviet parties. It is evident the Soviet secret service had something to' go on. Unless carefully handled by Both sides, this tragic affair, may have a> terrible result in mutual reprisals. Mr. Ransome pays a tribute to Commander Cromie as one of the most heroic and straigh test-thinking men he ever met.— Aus.-NjZ. Cable Assoc

ON ARCHANGEL FRONT.

THE ENEMY DEFEATED. • Received Sept. S, 5.5 pii. London, Sept. 6, . A British. Northern Russian official report states:—After severe ihand-tcH hand fighting on the Archangel front ■with the enemy, led by Germans, ibis Allies occupied Obozerskaya. We inflicted heavy losses on the enemy, while our casualties "were light.—Ans,«NZ. Cable Assoc, and Reuter.

COMMUNTOATION RE-ESTABLISHED IN SIBERIA. Received Sept. 8, <SS p.m". London, Sept. t: " Official advices from Pekjng state thav a telegraph line has been opened between Irkutsk and Peking, via Pensea, thus re-establishing communication between eastern and western Siberia*-' Reuter. •,