BE-ESTABLISHMENT OF RUSSIAN SITUATION.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 125, 27 May 1918, Page 5

BE-ESTABLISHMENT OF RUSSIAN SITUATION.

ANTI-SOVIET MOVEMENT IN PROGRESS. (Received 10.40 a.m.) LONDON, May 20. It is understood that the Allies are seriously considering bow to ree "tabl:.h the Russian situation, which is now regarded as hopeless. America "•ill decide the manner of Allied assistance and how it can hist be given. il. Marcel Sembat, writing in the "Humanite," says that no delusions should be nourished. The Germans, although limiting their ambitions to Irkutsk, could from there dominate the whole line to the Pacific, and could paralyse any attempted Japanese intervention. Japan's intervention is urgently necessary: she is willing to begin operations the moment Britain and say the word. The Russian people would accept intervention with guarantees that Japan is seeking neither territorial conquest nor the restoration of Czarism, nor to take land from the peasants. Moscow reports state that food riots have occurred in several provincial towns. Serious rioting occurred at Nijni-Novgorotl, where ten thousand employees of the Sormov work- declared a one day's strifce, and passed a in favour of a Constituent Assembly and against the Soviet. The German authorities of some of the occupied Russian territories arrested a number of Austrian and German prisoners of war who joined the extremist political organisations. General Arnold shot several hundred Austro-German '""ternationalists, allc ' prohibited prisoners of war participating in the Bolshevik organisation.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.) It is reported that Finland's commercial agreement with Germany has -"en Germany economic control of Finland for twenty years. Germany is uaancmg a number of Finnish factories, particularly those producing articles suitable for export to Russia. A defensive alliance has also been concluded, 'nlHn.l undertaking to provide a hundred thousand troops to be at Germany's ■"-no-al in tlie e'unt of Russia renewing hostilities.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)