RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 December 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA.

PEACE WANTED. HER RELATIONS WITH BRITAIN, j By Toloffrapb.—Pre93 Assn.—Copyrrifct, Copenhagen, Nov. 30. Denmark is negotiating with Litvinoff for the exchange of Danes imprisoned in Russia for .Russian soldiers in Jutland and interned persons willing to be repatriated. London, Nov. 30. The Reval correspondent of the Sunday Express received a statement from Tciiicherin, Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs, declaring that Mr. Lloyd C "Jorge's peaceful speeches were the first step towards the way for a good understanding between Russia and Britain. Mr. Lloyd George had previously yielded to the influence of narrowminded French politicians dominated by the ignorant and reactionary military clique. He was now influenced by "the sympathy of British Labor with Bolshevism, also British business men who understand where their real interests lay. Russia wanted peace, also economic help from countries like Britain.— AUB.-N.Z. Cable Assn. BIG JAPANESE ARMY. STATIONED IN SIBERIA. Paris, Nov. 30. Stefanoff, Koltchak's War Minister, declares that there are 55,000 Japanese troops in Siberia. London, Nov. 30. _ A Moscow wireless boasts of the triumph of the Red Army in the two years' struggle against the efforts of home and foreign coimter-revolution-aries to strangle the Soviet republic. "Our victories," says the message, "have humbled the pride of the haughty international capitalists, who are now seemingly willing to enter on peace negotiations with' the Soviet. Russia wants peace, she is prepared to pay her debts and grant other concessions, but will not accept a peace enslaving nnd i strangling the republic." | MORE BOLSHEVIK OUTRAGES. GERMAN SPIES ASSIST.

London, Dec. 1. A message from Rcral dated Nov. CO states that, following the latest series of political murders in Petrograd, the Reds arrested 500 or 600 connected witb three anti-Bolshevik organisations. Fischer, a member of the German Secret Service, denounced Elisarov, an cxsoldier who acted as a connecting link between the organisations. Elisarov refused to give information and tortures were inflicted with thtmibserews. Strips of flesh were also cut off and' baked in his presence. This secured the names of many anti-Bolshevist officers. British agents estimate that the Reds executed over 1300 in the Petrograd district in November.. Recent stages < of the tragic history illustrate the cynical German plan, first to secure the extermination of the Russian intelligentsia officers, and then to betray the Bolsheviks themselves The Daily Herald interviewed Litvinoff. who denied that Russia had relations with Germany. For economic reasons she would far prefer relations with Britain or America. The real reason for the Allied intervention could be summed up in the word "concessions," and the Bolsheviks, being realists, preferred to grant concessions to wasting Russian strength in endless war. He demanded it full investigation regarding the alleged atrocities. CONSIDERATION FOR YTJDENITCH. Received Dec 4, f1.40 p.m. Paris, Dec. 2. The Supremo Council has decided to request the Esthonian Government to show more regard for Yudenitch.— Reuter Service.