RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 September 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

ALEXIEFF TAKES OFFENSIVE. WITH COSSACKS AND WHITE GUARDS. Received Sept. 19, 2.30 a.m. Amsterdam, Sept. 18. Moscow reports that General Alex'ieff has taken the offensive against the Bolsheviks near Biagpvestchensk, with considerable Cossack forces ind a strong detachment of White Guards. It is reported that a strong representative government has been established at Om=k, and that Central and We3t Siberia ire now free from Bolshevik and war prisoner daDger. Comparative calm prevails. The Russo-German front has been re-established on the line of the Don j territory, Sarataff, Samara, Penza and : Vologda. I The Germans are moving up troops from the occupied territory. It is 'rrged that the Allies should despatch troops to the Ural region before Germany anticipates them.—Reuter. NEUTRALS' PROTESTS. BOLSHEVIKS ON THEIR DIGNITY. Received Sept 18, 810 p.m. Copenhagen, Sept. 17. Replying to neutral diplomatists' protect against the Bolshevik terrorism, Tchicherin indignantly resents their action. He adds: "I will regard future interference a 9 an attempt to support a counter-revolution." FINNISH INDEPENDENCE. ABfiRIOA'S firm attitude. Received Sept 18, 8.10 p.m. ' Copenhagen, Sept. 117. Carlo Ignatius, representative of the Finnish Government, has returned from a visit to America, and reports that tho American Government refuses to recog* nise Finnish independence or send food to Finland until all German soldiers leave RUSSIAN LABOR DELEGATES. APPEAL TO WESTERN PROLETARIAT. Received Sept. 18, S p.m. London, Sept- 17. The Labor Conference official Russian delegates, delayed at Stockholm, have telegraphed referring to the sanguinary Bolshevik orgies and the unspeakable suffering of the peoplr, and appealing to tho Western proletariat to send a commission to investigate the Soviet Government's policy and the attitude of the people thereanent.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Association. ' REIGN OF TERROR INCREASING, Copenhagen, Sept, J7, 'Passengers from Petrograd deny thai there are conflagrations in the eapital, days 812 persons have been executed, and 400 others are under sentence of but state that the reign of terror is increasing in horror. Within the past few death. Ten thousand officers have been thrown into prison and all the State Councillors arrested, regardless of their political opinions.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Association. LAST LIST OF EXECUTIONS. London, Sept, 17. The Stockholm correspondent ot the ■ Morning Post reports that the reign of terror continues in Russia, Bufainess men, scientists, and officers have been arrested wholesale. The last list of executions indudes tiie Grand Duke Paul Alexandroviteh, M. Sterchovski, who was War Minister in Kerensky'a Cabinet, and M. Sarudin, Minister of Justice, Five thousand representaiivea of the bourgeoisie, including many women, hove been arrested in revenue for Urui&ki's murder. Several have already been shot. —Ana. N.Z. Cable Assoc. 1 . ' ,' i