CHANGES IN RUSSIA.

Evening Star, Issue 16777, 4 July 1918, Page 3

CHANGES IN RUSSIA.

COUNTER-REVOLUTION CROWING. HOUSE OF ROMANOFF'S OPPORTUNITY. CZECH AND SLAV EXPRISONERS GONTROL VITAL COMMUNICATIONS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and r>.Z Cable Association. .MOSCOW, July 1. It is reported from Kostotf (at the head of the Sea of Azov) that a large number of officers ami men are flocking to tho volunteer army, of which General Alexieff has been appointed Chief of Staff. LONDON. July 1. Latest Moscow advices state that the Grand Duke Michael tthe ex-Tsar's brother in whose favor the Tsar abdicated) has issued a manifesto stating that lie considers it his duty to restore order and regenerate Russia. Re calls upon the people to .-ert-hrbw the Bolsheviks, and promises I an amnesty to participators in tho revolu- ! tion. | Soviet circles regard the Czech-Slav \ front as the most serious of the inner fronts. Tliese forces have greatly increased, and are divided into two groups— I the first along the West Siberian Railway ; from Cheliabinsk to Omsk, and the second in the vicinity of Samara, developing an offensive towards the Penza arm Volga districts. Their activities have isolated Central Russia and Siberia and the Far East. STOCKHOLM, July 1. Kieff messages state that the counterrevolution is progressing rapidly. Tho Czechs and Slovak? have captured all the I Volga bridges in the Samara region. ' BLACK SEA FLEET. MOSCOW, July 1. The Foreign Commissary, in informing the Press that part of the Black Sea fleet has returned to Sebastopol, the other part having been blown up by the crews, says they agreed to the return of the fleet expressly on condition that Germany and her allies would not tiso it during the war, and would return the fleet to Russia after the war. It was only upon condition that the fleet returned to Sebastopol that Germany stopped the advance of troops at Novorosisk. GERMAN APPREHENSION. LONDON. July 1. The ' Vossische Zeitung' urges a revision of the Brest-Litovsk Treaty, in view of tho vital importance of placating Russia and securing indispensable supplies and help in the event of a naval struggle with Britain and America. dAPAN AND INTERVENTION. ' The Times.' TOKIO, July 1. A telegram from Harbin states that the Russians formerly regarded intervention ■ with profound dislike, but now realise that the only hope of restoring order in j

th-eir chaotic country is to seek speedy Japanese action, provided the Allies givo an assurance of Japan's disinterestedness. PETROGRAD, July 1. M. Trotsky, at a meeting at Sakalnike, said that if he had to choose between German and Japanese occupation, ho would choose German, as a social revolution was approaching in Germany. BOLSHEVIK "JUSTIGE." Eeuter's Telegrams. MOSCOW, July 1. A Bolshevik Court sentenced to death Captain St. Chasany, ex-commander of the Baltic fleet, on a charge of opposing and discrediting Soviet rule. Ihe Central Executive of the Soviets confirmed the sentence, and Captain St. Chasany was executed within 24 hours of its promul.ation, notwithstanding a protest from tho Left Revolutionary socialists. TRAMSGAUGASIA, MOSCOW, July 1. It is reported from Veronesh that the Germans continue to advance with the utmost tenacity. They are also arming the German colonists in the Tabriz district (Persia). Iho People's Convention in Northern Caucasus has ordered immediate mobilisation owing to the. continuous advance of the Germans. The latter have occupied Tiflis, and are organising Austro-German war prisoners. RUMANIA'S VASSALAGE. LONDON, July 1. The newspapers point out that Germany is providing a useful precedent in forcing Rumania to punish certain officials for alleged ill-treatment of German prisoners I and also in demanding indemnification to I relatives of prisoners who have died.

AMSTERDAM, July l._ Advices from Bucharest state that in the Chamber of Deputies M. Arion, Rumanian Foreign Minister, declared that the hour of justice had struck. The country demanded from Parliament the fixing of responsibilities. Past mistakes must be atoned for and crimes punished. The Government must also carry our great financial reforms, as the war burdens exceeded £520,000,000. He had always opposed the war, and had concluded peace to save what was savable, thanks to the credit he enjoyed with those with whom he negotiated. ■ ALLIED MACEDONIAN AIR RAIDS. I LONDON", July 1. l A French eastern communique states: British aviators lavishly bombed the. Vardar Valley and the Seres-Drama Railway. AMERICA AND TURKEY. NEW YORK, July 1. America has demanded that Turkey shall immediately explain why the Turks sacked the American hospital at Tabriz, 'and, seized the British and American Consulates. FAMINE IN PALESTINE. Renter's Telegrams. AMSTERDAM, July 1.

The Jewish Correspondence Bureau publishes a letter describing the terrible famine conuitions in Northern Palestine. The prices of foodstuffs are extortionate, and people eat grass growing on graves. Huudieds of oiphaus are wandering famished and naked, and many people die of hunger in the streets. AUSTRG-GERMAN FOOD SHORTAGE. AMSTERDAM, July 1. ! A Berlin official report announces that the potato ration has been reduced from 71b to 31b weekly, and an allowance of 400 , grammes of cereals has been substituted. A telegram from Vienna states that the . Emperor Charles, owing to unsolvable dif- | Acuities and.food shortages, wrote to the! Kaiser, with the result that a conference 1 was held at the main Headquarters, the Hungarian Food Minister participating. He stated that an agreement had been reached for the joint and systematic utilisation of all grain stocks until the new harvest. Austro-German Socialists have informed Herr Troelstra that they favor peace if an ] understanding can bo arrived at on the basis of the Stockholm Conference declarations, but not on the baais proposed in tho Entente Socialists' memoranda. ' [The cable news in this issue accredited to ' The Times' has appeared in that journal, but only where expressly stated is such news the editorial opinion of 'The Times.']

PRUSSIANISM UNPOPULAR. BERNE, July 1. South German newspapers publish a semi-official article insisting upon the necessity of far-reaching internal reforms in Austria, on the basis of ax(tonomous nationalities. ,A>-=t-»i-'n c »c7a-li«t nnd democratic newspapers warmly champion Von Kuhlmann. 'V 'ounces the Junker Pan-German hypocrites. BATTLE OF VENETIA. AUSTRIAN LOSSES REVEALED. Boater's Telegrams. ROME, July 1. _ 1 A semi-official reply to Dr Weicerle's (t-Umgai-.a.i ' mori no eh <i ■V.s ■••{ that the latter constitutes £»n effiI ciai admission of ttit inime.ijse grav. t y of the Austrian disaster. Dr Wekerle I tries .to soothe public opinion by | doubling the Italian and halving the Austrian losses. Dr Wekerle asserted that only 70 regiments—otherwise 2C0.000 men —participated in the battle, and therefore tho Austro-Hungarian losses, on his own showing, were 50 per cent, of the forces en aged ; but Austrian prisoners are agreed in stating that 42 divisions--otherwise 460.000 men—were cngaied. Therefore, Dr Wekerle's proportions, corrected, show that the Austro-Hungarian losses were 200.000. Moreover, the Austrians took 9,000, not 12,000, prisoners. NEW YORK, July 1. The Ttilians on tho Upper Asiago captured 1,500 Atistrians. 4u«tra!ia.u and N.Z. Cubic Associntioa and Beiwr. ~LONDON, July 1. A British-Italian official report states: The situation is quiet. We carried out j two i'ai'!s, infiietinu mnnv casualties, and destroyed seven aeroplanes.