RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 September 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

PROGRESS OF THE JAPANESE. mOO ENEMY PRISONERS TAKESReceived Sept 24, 11 p.m. London, Sept. 23. The Press Bureau reports:—The Japanese Military Attache states that Japanese cavalry occupied BlagoTistchenek and Alesclevsk on the 18th. Two thousand Anttro-German prisoners surrendered at Kokka, on the right bank of tba Amur.—Am.-N.Z. Cable Assoc, and Renter.

THE ARBITER OF LIFE AND DEATH. ; A DAPPER, BLOND LETT. New York, Sept 23. Mr. Dosch Pleurot, writing from Stocktola, says: The most awful figure of the Russia* Bed Terror is a dapper little blond Lett named Peters. Be is Com■iaaSwar Extraordinary against the eomrUr-revolution. Peters lived in England for many fears, and speaks Russian with an English accent. He daily signs away the lives of scores of men and women he has never seen, because they are suspected of being against the Bolsheviks. Peters has absolute power of life and death over anybody in Bussia. A neutral who had been before him many times pleading for the lives of innocent persons told me that Peters had become a furious little animal. He signs death warrants all day, sitting at the Kremlin. On one occasion he signed away the lives of 72 officers without glancing at the paper.— Aug. NX Cable Assoc.

FRESH REPRISALS. traKATBNBD BT THE MURDEROUS BOOSHEVIKS. Received Sept. 24, 11 pan. Moscow, Sept. 24. Alleging fresh attempts to assassinate members of the Soviet, it is announced that frah reprisals 'will be carried oot->-Aa.-KZ CU>le Assoc. AN UNSUCCESSFUL SHOT AT TROTSKY. Sectired Sept. 24, 7.35 pan. Stockholm, Sept. 23. An unraeecaifnl attempt was made to •hoot Trot&y at Kurak.—Ana. NX Glkls Amoc. EX-CZAR'SBODY. Receivsd Bept. 24, 7.40 p.m. I Amsterdam, Sept. 23. Ihe ex-Char's body has been exhumed Croat tiie forest where he was executed and ceremoniously conveyed to Ekaterinburg, where it lay in state at the cathedral prior to temporary interment. —Renter. * AIMEB ESTABLISH PROTECTORATE X«w York, Sept. 23. Delayed press dispatches from Archangel say Oat the Allied diplomats and military staffs have assumed temporary control, following the attempted overthrow of Tschaikovtsky Government, aid bat* established a protectorate in the region behind the Allies' front, which will be rdiagßbhed when order is restored. • s '- v- - - Tschaikovtsky and the members of his Cabinet* we now under Allied protWHon. (Wonel T. Chsplin, leader of the abortive eoap d'etat, has resigned the post of Commander-in-Chief of the Russian amies sad order 1* maintained in the btith—Ans. N.Z. Cable Assoc. RASPUTIN'S END. New York, Sept. 23. Colonel Stanislaus Deltazevert, commander of the sanitary section of the Russian Red Cross, said that the report that Rasputin waa lured into a house and then shot was untrue. —Ans. N.Z. Cable Assoc. ,