RUSSIA.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16812, 19 April 1920, Page 7

RUSSIA.

■■ ♦ INDUSTRIAL CONSCRIPTION. (iiy Cable—Press Association —Copyright.) (Reuter's Telegrams.) (Received April 18th, 5.5 p.m.) CHRISTIANIA, April 16. Tho All-Russian Trades Union ConI gross resolved on the necessity of l workers submitting to military discipline at work, and also in favour of a campaign against attempts to avoid work and tho adoption of a system of feeding tho workers in proportion to the economic and social importance of their labour. PEACE NEGOTIATIONS. (Australian and X.Vr. Cable Association.) PALtIS, April 15. The Russian Commissary of Foreign Affairs has sent a wireless mcsoage to M. Millerand asking tho Allies to intervene in the peace negotiations with Poland. LONDON, April 15. Tho Ljvonian peace conditions comprise strategic guarantees, a war indemnity of two milliards of roubles in gold, tne return of all railway material and bank securities carried off by tho Bolsheviks, and a portion of tho Rus- ' sian gold reservo as a set off against i talcing over a portion of tho Russian public debt prior to the Bolshevik regime. REFUGEES ARRESTED. LONDON, April 15. A Moscow wireless message states that 300 Russian refugees suspected of Bolshevism were arrested at Constantinople. The remainder are under close surveillance. JAPAN AND SIBERIA. LONDON, April 15. The Australian Press Association understands that the anti-Japanese feeling continues in Siberia. Japan has taken strong action to suppress disorders, including the occupation of several points on the Chinese Eastern railway. The Japanese arrested several Russian workmen. The Russians, Chinese, and Czechs jointly protested, and the railwaymen struck. Subsequently street fighting occurred between the Russians and Czechs and the Japanese, resulting in several casualties, including some among tho Chincso, who intervened to quell the disturbance. WASHINGTON, April 16. Official confirmation has reached tho State Department from Harbin that the Japanese troops have taken possession of several points along the Chinese eastern railroad in Manchuria. Japan's reason for seizing the railroad is not known here, but the assumption is that it was for the purpose of protecting the Japanese forces at Vladivostock and keeping the road open for the repatriation of the Czechs. _ (Australian and N.Z. Cable l Association.) (Received April 19th. 12.10 a.m.) TOKIO. April 17. The Japanese hold all tho important centres in Eastern Siberia, except Kabarovfilt, which their troops are besieging. Many Russians have escaped to the hills.