RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 September 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

AMERICAN TROOPS AT ARCHANGEL, CZECHOSLOVAKS COMMANDED BY FRENCH GENERAL. Received Sept. 15, 11 p.m. Washington, Sept. 12. The War Department has announced that American troops from Fiance have landed at Archangel. The size of the force has not been disclosed. Major-General Janin, of the Frew!) Army, has arrivd from Franco. He is going to Siberia to take command of the Czecho-Slovak arm. _ Officials say that the Czechoslovaks will continue operations all through the winter.—Aua.-N.Z. Cable Assoc. ENDING BOLSHEVIK RULE. LEADERS READY FOR FLIGHT. Received Sept. 15, 5.5 p.m. London, Sept. 14. Latest official cables received in London confirm the impression that the Bolshevik Government is breaking up. It has been known for a month that Lenin and Trotsky have everything prepared for flight to Switzerland. A message received at Amsterdam reports that the Bolsheviks have arrested General Kuropatkin.—Aus. and N.Z Cable Aspic, and Reuter. BOLSHEVIKS SELL THEIR COUNTRY. GERMANY FINANCES REVOLUTION \ A BOGUS LETTISH PLOT Received Sept. IS, 11.50 p.m. New York, Sept. 14. The Committee of Public Information has published documents proving that. Lenin, Trotsky, and their associates are German agents; that the Gerinaa staff arranged the Bolshevik revolution, which was financed by the Geraiai Imperial Bank and others; that German army officers were secretly received by the Bolsheviki aal allowed to spy on the Allied Embassies. Mr. Dosch Fleurot, writing from Stockholm, says that the United States Consul. Mr. Poole, was arrested at Moscow and accused of implication in a plot w» bribe Lettiafc troops to abandon the Bolsheviks. This is absurd, for long before I left Russia the Letts told me they wer,e unwilling t<> fight against the Allies, because they <vere against the Bolsheviks, and would help them to regain the Fatherland from Germany. There has been th* closest co-operation at Moscow between the Allied and American officials, and the Bolshevikß are futilely trying to hreak tfw solidarity oi" the Allies s>y causing ill-feeling between them.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Asaoc CZECHOSLOVAK INDEPENDENCE. AUSTRIA-HUNGARY ALARMED. Received Sept. 15, 11.50 p.m. New York, Sept. 13. The New York Times' Washington torrespondent Btates that diplomatic advices say that all the clergy in the Bohemian dioceses have unanimously approved the declaration of the Czech deputies favoring the establishment of a united, independent Czecho-Slovak nation. This action has caused a sensation to Austria-Hungary. JAPANESE REPORT. THE CAPTURES AT KHABAROVSK. Received Sept, 15, 5.5 p.m. London, Sept. 13. A Japanese communique from Tokio states: The captures at Khabarovsk include 150 prisoners, some German officers, 17 river gunboats, and 120 guns.— Aua. and N.Z. Cable Assoc, and Reuter. / BRUSILOFF'S END. MURDER OF TSARITZA DENIED. Received Sept. 15, 5.5 p.m. Copenhagen, Sept. 14. General Brusiloff was shot at Moscow, outside Tugan prison. Tchitsherin denies the murder of the Tsaritza and her daughters..—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Aasoc. and Reuter. AUSTROGERMANY. A TRAIN ACCIDENT. Received Sept. 15, 5.5 p.m. Amsterdam, Sept. 13. Forty were killed and over a hundred injured near Weesp, through a train falling over a steep embankment.—Reuter Service.