RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 December 1918, Page 7

RUSSIA.

BOLSHEVIK PROPAGANDA. THREATENS WORLD'S PEACE. ■AN UNSUCCESSFUL RISING- 1 London, Dec. 27. Prince Lvoff, interviewed, said that the only solution of the Russian problem, was the immediate intervention of the United States and Japanese armies. Unless the Bolshevik? were conquered their insidious propaganda would again inevitably threaten the world's peace. Two hundred thousand men would have been sufficient to put them down, but now, three months later, a vastly larger force would be necessary. The Bolsheviks held only the interior. It ivao necessary to eject them from Petrograd and Moscow, The downfall of Bolshevism would result in the institution of a republican (government in Russia.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assoc. New York, Dec. 27. Advices received by the Russian Embassy report an unsuccessful Bolshevik uprising against the All-Russian Government at Omsk on December 22. Twelve Bolsheviks were arrested, courtmartialled and shot.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assoc.

ROMANOFF RUMORS. FAMILY ALLEGED TO BE STILL ALIVE. New York, Dec. 27 Michael Tchihachef, nephew of Skoropadski, strenuously asserted to an American correspondent at Warsaw that the ex-Czar and his family were alive. Tchihachef recently escaped from the Ukraine. He alleged that the Allied Governments were aware of the whereabouts of the Romanoff family. M. Tchihachef added that the Bolsheviks executed Tatichef, the Czar's personal aide-de-camp, and gave out for propaganda purposes a report that they lad executed the Czar. Documents de--B<sribing the Czar's escape are in possession of the Gorman Consul at Petrograd, who will forward them to Berlin.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assoc.