RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 June 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA.

FINNS ATTACKING ON TUSiffi SIDES. SNMTY BETWEEN TROOPS AND WORKERS. By Tetegrapfr.—Press Afisa.—Gopyrtght. Copenhagen, May 25. Finnish military action against Russia Is considered certain. The Finns will attack from three sides.; the greatest force will be directed against Kem, with the view of cutting communication between (Murmansk and Petrograd, The second army will operate directly against Petrograd; the third will be sent 'to Esthonia.

Synchronising with this plan, a campaign of greater activity will be manifested by the -Ded Finns. A plot against highly-placed Finnish officers has been discovered. The conflict between the workers and the. Government troops is becoming more pronounced. The Govern■ment has bought 5000 machine-guns and 150,000 automatic pistols.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. GENERAL DENIKEN'S PROGRAMME. DESTRUCTION OF BOLSHEVISM . MAIN POLICY. Copenhagen, May 22. Hefeingfors newspapers report that Lenin offered Admiral Koltchak an armistice. Koltchak has not replied. General Deniken has forwarded to the Allies his political programme. Its main point is the 1 destruction of Bolshevism and the establishment of a united Russia with decentralised territorial autonomy and agricultural reforms.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. r Typhus is raging in Moscow. The evacuation of the city has begun. Prominent Bolsheviks are selling their property and departing southward. The Bolsheviks fear their power is ending.— Aus. N.Z t Cable Assoc. London, June 5. Several reports received recently have indicated a check to Koltchak's' army. The Swedish Socialist paper. Folkets Dairblad, asserts that Koltchak lost 40,000 prisoners and 100 gims near Uda. —Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. THE KOLTCHAK GOVERNMENT. Paris, May 25. Japan desires to recognise the Koltchak Government. The Council of Four agreed that the recognition should be simultaneous when the right moment came. —Aus. N-Z. Cable Assoc.