RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 September 1918, Page 8

RUSSIA.

ULTIMATE ADVANCE ON MOSCOW. CZECHOSLOVAK REINFORCEMENTS Washington, Sept. 22, The Czecho-Slovak National Council • has* announced that Czecho-Slovak troops are being rushed from Central Siberia to the assistance of their compatriots on the Volga front, who are hard pressed by the Bolshevik forcea, officered by Germans and reinforced by German soldiers. The Council's officials point out that, this movement probably means an ultimate advance on Moscow.—-4.ua. N.Z. Cable Assoc. BOLSHEVIK TERRORISM. RUSSIANS HELD AS HOSTAGES. New York, Sept, 22. Mr. Dosch Fleurot cables from Stockholm: Scores of Russians have been arrested at Moscow because they attempted to visit the United States Consulate, by agents of the extraordinary commission against the counter-revolution. These innocent prisoners are held as hostages, and will probably be shot by order of the Bolsheviks. The Russians, accompanied by their wives, who attempted to visit the American Consul, Mr. Poole, in Moscow, while he was in gaol were ar--1 rested. The attempt to obtain the rei lease of the women has been futile.— Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. REASON OF BOLSHEVIK DEFEAT. Amsterdam, Sept. 22. .According to German papers the recent Bolshevik defeat on the northern front was due to the mutiny of Lettish regiments, who refused to fight the British.—Reuter. PROTEST AGAINST BOLSHEVIK CRIMES. Amsterdam, Sept. 22. A meeting of members of the Russian Duma and Imperial Council, held at 'Kieff, resolved to issue a manifesto apIpe.iliug to all the Governments in I Europfi to end the Bolshevist terror. The Ukrainian Cabinet has decided to send a protest to all countries against the arrest and shooting of Ukrainians in Russia, also to request Germany to protect the Ukrainians in Russia.— Reuter. A MONARCHIAL MOVE. Stockholm, Sept. 22. It is reported from Russia that M. Miliukoff, leader of the Cadets, has formed a new party aiming at a constitutional pro-German monarchy.—Aus. N.N. Cable Assoc. BAKU IN FLAMES. Amsterdam, Sept. 22. The Russian Embassy in Berlin learns that the Turks have occupied Baku. The town is ablaze and there are continuous explosions.—Aus.'N.Z. Cable Assoc. BOLSHEVIK HATRED OF BRITISH. Christiania, Sept. 22. Fugitives who have arrived from Moscow say that Bolsheviks show intense hatred of the British. All between 18 and 45 years arc now likely to be retained, and it is feared this is equivalent to a wholesale massacre. The Germans are everywhere unmolested.—Times.