RUSSIA.

Evening Star, Issue 16778, 5 July 1918, Page 2

RUSSIA.

NEW TSAR PROCLAIM EL CZECHOSLOVAK FORGES AND COSSACKS EBPONSS HIS CAUSE. Heuter’s Telegrams. AMSTERDAM, July 5. The Ukrainian Telegraph Bureau at Kieff aunouliees that the Grand Duke Michael Aiexuudrovitdi has been proclaimed Tsar, and is marching with Czecho-Slovaks and Cossacks against Moscow. PETROGBAD, July 2. Tho Archbishop of Perm has been arrested in connection with tho escape of the Grand Duke Michael, whose wile (the Countess Brasova) was arrested at Retrograd. The Bolsheviks, growing impatient at tho frequent alarms aoout the dyi'iasty, are raising the question ol settling the fate of the Romanoifs, in order to be done with them finally. Tiie Soviet Commissioners describe the reported murder of the ex-Tsar as a base fabrication. LONDON, July 2. Tho ‘ Daily Chronicle’s ’ .Stockholm correspondent learns from a Russian source that the Bolsheviks, in response to an urgent demand, have promised io disarm and hand over the Uzedio-,Slavs to Germany. The Bolshevik Government in Samar:; has been overthrown. Some members oi the Constituent Assembly formed a. Provisional Government, and have issued a proclamation notifying that they will exorcise power until tho Constituent Assembly meets. Travellers atato that the Ukrainian peasant movement is rapidly growing against General Skoropa-dsky and the Gorman General Staff. Tho leading movements are under a Russian general. TOKIO, July 2. Colonel Durban, a Czech leader, states that tho Czech forces in Siberia have 2CX3.CCO Germans at their mercy, and will exact terrible reprisals if tho Austrian outrages in Italy continue. Admiralty per Wireless Press. LONDON, July 4. Russian official : A Government decrc, has been issued nationalising all tho im portant industrial undertakings with all capital and property within the Empire.

SIBERIA. CHINESE EXPORTS MAY REACH GERMANY. Reuter’s Teiegram/s. LONDON, July 3, The Stockholm correspondent of the ‘Daily Express’ states that there have been two Siberian Governments —an eastern, with its capital at Harhin, ate! a western, with its capital at Oms),-. These have been united, with Tomsk as tho new capital. Tho main military force consists of Czocho-Slovaks, besides several corps of volunteers, while tho movement is directed by Kerensky from outside. The ‘Daily Chronicle’s’ Harbin correspondent says the Chinese have been sending to Russia largo quantities of cotton, blankets, fats, and other goods which arc vitally needed in Germany since the removal of the embargo on exports, which was originally intended to secure a complete German blockade in the Far East. China is acting in good faith, but there is reason to believe that goods passu; Irkutsk will reach the. Germans. The danger would not have arisen if the Allies had intervened and controlled the western trade routes. INFILTRATION. Reuter’s Telegrams. AMSTERDAM, July 2. In connection with Herr Von Kuhlmimn’s declaration in Ids Inst speed; in the Reichstag that Cnurland was already regarded as German territory, u telegram from Knvno significantly states that Marshal Von Hindonhurg has issued an order relative to the land question paving; tho wav for the German colonisation of Courland. FINLAND GERMANY'S VASSAL. WASHINGTON, July 2. Official French advices received hero state that 40,000 Germans and Finnish mercenary troops are concentrating at Vihorg preparatory to a drive on the Murman coast and Kola. COPENHAGEN, July 3. The German army in Finland has now at least 50,000 troops concentrated on the Russian frontier. Tho German-Finnish army at several points has crossed the frontier. THE CAUCASUS, MOSCOW, July 2. The Germans have hurriedly carried out a scheme of dismembering the Caucasus. It includes an independent Armenia, tho re-establishment of tlie independence of Georgia, and the establishment of a new State, including Baku and part of the Elizabetpol district.