RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 February 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA.

CONFERENCE WITH BOLSHEVIKS. | ABANDONED BY THE ENTENTE. Paris, Feb. 10. There is little hope of the success of the Marmora scheme solving the Bolshevik problem. So far the anti-Bol-shevik C-overnments refuse to go to the Marmora Conference, and only the Bolshevik leaders agree. They agreed apparently with the view of negotiating with the delegates of the Allies, but M. Pichoa informed journalists that if the Bolsheviks imagine this is the view ofi the Peace Conference they were mistaken, m tne meeting was always intended merely as a means of conversation between the divided Russian powers with a view to their submitting a basis of agreement to the Entente, and was by no means to be regarded as a conference between the Entente and Kussia. The lact Umt only the Bolsheviks had expressed cheir willingness to go &w----gestp/J the complete failure of the pro jfect and made another scheme necessary, details of which are anxiously awaited in many quarters. The breakdown of the project must also be regarded as a blow to President Wilson's belief that such questions may be settled by a compromise based on idealism. Seemingly the Kussian differences are too acute for compromise and too bitter for idealism. France is particularly interested in pi this, seeing she agreed very reluctantly to meet Bolshevism half way at Mar-mora.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. SETTLING SLAV DIFFERENCES. BOLSHEVIKS DBIVEN OUT OF KIEFF Vienna, Feb. fl. All the Slav nations are attending a Congiess at Kieff and attempting to settle JSlav differences. Copenhagen, Feb. 9. The Bolsheviks have been driven out ! of KieiT —Aua.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ALLIES* SUCCESSFUL RAID. Received Feb, 12, 1 a.m. London, Feb. 10. A British North Russia communique states: Liverpool troops and a detachment of the French Foreign Legion (consisting of Russians trained and officered by the French), carried out a successful . raid southward of Kadish, and inflicted . heavy casualties. They destroyed two , j field guns, and upset the enemy's prepar- . ations for an attack.—Ami. And N.Z. '{ GftWe Assoc SwdJftwtsK,