RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16268, 19 July 1918, Page 7

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

THE MUKMAN EXPEDITION. AMERICA PROPOSES INTERVENTION. (By Coble.—Frees -Association.—Copyright.) (United Service (Received July IDtli, 1.45 a.m.) LONDON, July 17. Washington has proposed joint American and Japanese intervention in Siberia. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) COPENHAGEN, July 10. In the event of a serious Murman conflict Finland will remain neutj-ah ' German newspapers declare that Germany has now sufficient troops in Finland to meet the Entente troops and the Red Guards. THE CZECHOSLOVAKS. COPENHAGEN. JuW 16. The Czechs' National Conference at' Prague has issued a proclamation in favour of an independent democratic ' Czecho-Slovak State. A NEW PEASANT MOVEMENT(Keuter'a Telegrams.) (Received July l&tli, 5.5 p.m.) BERNE, July 16. The Craeow newspaper "Czas" reports that a new peasant movement has begun against the Governments of IviefT and Podolia. Well-armed forces, including artillery, occupied several towns, stopped agricultural work, ana compelled the land-owners to make » hurried flight. Tho bulk of the harvest in Podolia has been destroyed, dt>ppite the closo guard of the Germin soldiers. ANOTHER BOLSHEVIK DEFEAT. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received JulvlSth,. 5.5 p.m.) PEEING, July 16. The Bolsheviks were defeated by the Czecho-Slovaks north-woSt of. Vladivostock, and are retreating towards Khabarovsk. The Chinese, Javv anese, and Cossacks are aiding tho Czecho-Slovaks. Harbin reports state that the Czechoslovaks defeated tho Bolsheviks near Chita, on the Trans-Siberian Railway. CADET PARTY AND GERMANY. (Australian and N. 2. Cable Association.) (Received July 18th, 7.60 p.m.) STOCKHOLM, July 17. News from Russia confirms tho rumours that the leaders of the Gadet ■ party have bocome Gennanophilej and are negotiating with the German Army loaders to restore order in Russia. The Cadets, whoto name is built of the initials of the party's real name, Constitutional Democrats; comprise all the bourgeois elements of the Russian nation, the business and industrial interests, as well as the landed and professional, classes. They stand for conservatism, nationalism, and, up til! now, the fullost prosecution of the war in co-operation with the Allies. They are the solid, stable eloment of tho country, and wore in control at the time of thp organisation of the Provisional Government, but were -thrust • into the background by the more aggressive factions of the Socialist parties.