RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16404, 26 December 1918, Page 8

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

; KEVAL EVACUATED BY GERMANS. (By Cablp.—Picrs Association.— i (Renter, via America.) j AMSTERDAM, Docember 21. ■; Reval has-been evacuated' by the j Germans. .. . j Reval. one of the chief ports of the ! Baltio, is situated on a small bay' on j tho south side of the Gulf of Finland. j BOLSHEVIK TROOPS ADVANCING. t/OPENHAGEN, December-21. , Bolshevik troops are advancing to the German frontier to join German sympathisers. The "Lokal Anzeiger" states that German troops,, fighting Bolsheviks, captured fifteen guns near Zhitomir, a town in the south-west of Russia.i. FINLAND RID OF GERMAN RULE. 1 . ' ; .. • (Australian and. K.Z. Cable Association.) NEWYORK/Decembor 23. The correspondent of the "New York limes" says it is unofficially . announced that Finland ppparontly hrs thrown off German rule. Re- .• liof shipments will be sent fr.ofia the United States. j THE CZAR'S LAST DAYS. (Australian and N'.Z. Cabl« AMOciation.) (Received December 25th, 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, Decomber 23. Mr Ackerman, the "JTew York

Tijnes"' correspondent at Ekaterinburg, interviewed Parfen Alexeivitch Dominin, 'who was the Czar's major domo, accompanying (him- to exile. "From / him*".Mr Ackerman says, '1 obtained V the first eye-witness account of the Czar's last days under the Bolsheviki. • /His trial was as brief as Was his fare•'.well to his family. The account shows ■ ,that the Czar, untilhis last hours, was 1 ; intriguing with the military leaders for the' restoration of the monarchy. The i; ; discovery of this, plot led to. hi? trial, and caused tho Soviet to order his exo- . j cution." ' r > ~ THE CIVIL : WAR. ' * ANARCHY r. SOLITARY AUTOCRACY. «--• (Australian aad N.Z. Cable, Aasocmtion.) -•(Received December 25th,• 7.40 p.m.) .>»• NEW YORK, December 38. ~ Mr Ackerman, the "New York

Times" Vladivostok correspondent, states.: Russia's civil war has reached the stage where decisive battles are in preparation the Bolsheviki in the East and the militarists and monarchists in the West. A distressing feature of Russia's civil war is that it is not a fight for freedom, but a contest for power between anarchy and military autocracy as represented by Admiral Kolchak. The action of. General SemenofF, the Cosssfck leader, complicates the situation.

THE FORMATION OF A NEW

, GOVERNMENT. /HELP FROM THE ALLIES. (Received December 25th, 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, December 23. Dr. Lazevcrt, admitting himself one of Rasputin's slayers, has departed en route for Russia in order... to assist in the formation of a new Government at Odessft. With Allied aid it hoped. to establish an army based on Odessa, with which to stamp out the Bolsheviki. Mr Charles Crane, a member of Mr Root's mission to Russia in 1917, is returning from the Orient. Ho states that Siberia is full of little' republics with no The Allies' intervention in R,ussia has small chance of success. A better plan would be for the Allies to repair Ruifeia's trans-" portation systems and carry on relief work. . j

, EFFECT OF ALLIED INTERVENTION. (Received December 2oth, 5.5 p.m.)' LONDON,, December 23. The "Morning Post's", Archangel correspondent states that tho \ Allied intervention in North Russia has achieved important results, -promising the resurrection and regeneration of Russia.. It has already established military security 1 in North Russia,. BOLSHEVIKS DEFEATED. • (Received December 25th, 5.5 p.m.) WASHINGTON, December 23. The Russiqa Embassy has 'been notified that the Russians - defeated the Bolsheviki *on the" Ekaterinburg front. The Bolsheviks ; " are v retreating- on Perm, losing much equipment and supj plies, |