RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 January 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA.

, THE SIBERIAN FRONT. GENERAL JAND* IN COMMAND. Received Jan. 22, 5.5 p.m. Now York, Jan. 18. (Despatches from Omsk say that General Janin has bee'n iriven the supreme command of the Allied troops on the Siberian front.—Aus.-NZ. Cable Assoc. FURTHER INTERVENTION. REQUEST TO AMERICAN GOVERN- '", , . , MINT. ■ Receivtd Jau. 22. 5.5 p.m. Stockholm, Jan. 20. Tchocherin has forwarded to the United States a request to allow the jßolsheviks to meet representatives of the American Government with the object of reaching an agreement for further intervention in Russia.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assoc. , BOLSHEVIK TAXAT'ON. £1,000,000,000 TO BE LMPOSm i Received Jan. 22, lO.o'S p.m. London, Jan. 20. A' wireless Russian message states that the Bolsheviks ere imposing a levy on the propertied elases and bourgeoise, also a revolutionary tax of ten milliards, nominally representing a thousand millions pounds sterling. They declare the taxation is necessary to enable the Government to e:;ert all its s>*ength in tha defence of the Russian and a universal revolution.—Aua.-N.Z. Cable Aasoa.

SAVING ESTHONIA, J ATROCITIES. . ,;■ Received Jan. 22, 10oa p.m. Stoekliolm, Jan. 20. General Hjolmarson, head of the Svedish Military Mission, has returned from Esthonia. He says that the Finnish volunteers practically saved Esthonia. The Bolsheviks recently held half the province, but now they hold ouly one-sixth. The Bolsheviks committed unspeakable auodties —Aus.-X.Z. Cable Assoc. BOLSHKVK W2ABE&S SHOX. Received Jan. 23, 10.20 a.m. Zurich, Jan. 20. Four Bolshevik leaders at Spandau, captured on Friday night, attempted to escape when going through the forest to prison. The guard shot four dead.— Aus. N.Z. Gable Assoc. ■;.■,. , ■ -;--