RUSSIAN AFFAIRS

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16584, 25 July 1919, Page 7

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS

ANTI-JEWISH POGROM. (By Cable.—Pr«H Association.— Copyright.) C'The Time*. > HELSINGFORS, July 17. It is reported from Petrograd that the British Embassy was gutted. Several British subjects were forced to dig their graves, and were then shot. A terriblo anti-Jewish pogrom has broken out. The Bolsheviks offer a reward of half a million roubles for the assassination of General Mannerheim, with the object of paralysing the operations of tho Finnish army. OVERTURES TO ROUMANIA. (Australian and! N.Z. Cable Association.) COPENHAGEN. July 23. The Roumanian Press Bureau states that a Russian Bolshevik Commission is negotiating peace •with Roumania on ±he Dniester. Lonin is willing to cede earabia to Iloumania. A week's armistice has been arranged. RECENT MUTINIES. (Received Julv 24th. 9.5 p.ni.) LONDON, July 23. Official —Genoral Ironside repirts that the Russian mutinies occurred principally on tho Onega front, whero there arc no British troops; also on the railway front, where tho mutiny did not mature. The Onega mutineers surrendered the. front and the town to tho enemy. Tho mutiny was duo to Bolshevik propaganda, and was brought to a head by a realisation that the Brit'sh evacuation had "begun. Apparently the Russians then decided that their only hope was to go over to the Bolsheviks. The latter attacked the railway front but were repulsed. General Ironside has tho situation in hand.