RUSSIA.

Evening Star, Issue 16782, 10 July 1918, Page 3

RUSSIA.

CZECHS AND SLOVAKS. BOLSHEVIKS ORGANISE | RESISTANCE. | R-euter's Telegrams, i MOSCOW. July 8. I A Revolutionary Military Council has been appointed to direct all operations acitirist the Czechs an;! Slovaks. Colonel MuraviefE. formerly Commander-in-Chief, has assumed command of the Soviet troops. A firiiil split has occurred in the Soviet camp, the Moderate Social Revolutionaries and t l-, e Minimalist Socialists Vieiiiii excluded from the Soviet Central Executive. EX-TSAR AND FAMILY. ARE EXECUTION RUMORS TRUE? COPENHAGEN, .July 3. Latest Russian newspapers and special information received by the ' Politiken' confirm the murders of the ex-Tsar. exTsarina, and the Grand Duchess Tafiana (their daughter}. The. Bolshevists continue to deny the murders. MIRBACH MURDER AT MOSCOW. DUPLICATE OF SERAJETO CRIME. ,; THE KAISER'S FRIEND." COPENHAGEN. July 8. The murder of Count Mirbach has caused the jjreatest excitement in Germany. The Kaiser immediately ordered Von Kuhlmaitn to break off negotiations with the Russian delegates. The Berlin police are specially guarding the Russian Ambassador's house in Berlin, fearing that the mob will attack it, as Mirbach was known as the Kaiser's special friend. A semi-official Wolff message fastens the responsibility on the Social Revolutionaries, who are engaged in severe fighting with the Bolsheviks, resulting in the latter's favor. Rsuter's Telegrams. PARIS. July 8. The Press agree that Germany w'ill attempt to profit by the Mirbach affair. They speculate whether it was deliberately arranged, similar to the Serajevo assisljiiition in order to afford a pretext for more drastic military action. They urge the necessity for allied intervention to save Russia. Renter's Telegrams. AMSTERDAM, July 8. A Berlin telegram states that inquiries suggest that the Entente is implicated in the Mirbach affair. TRANSCAUCASIA. Router's Telegrams. LONDON, Julv 8. Significant reports are appearing in the German Press of the Bolsheviks at Baku fon the Caspian Sea, an oil centre), which allege the necessity for German occupation of this rich district. V/EST FRONT QUIET AGAIN. LONDON, July 8. French communique: There is artillery activity between Villers-Cotterets Forest and the Marne. RHIME AIR RAID. AMSTERDAM, July 8. German messages state that 11 aeroplanes participated in Friday's raid on uoblenz. Twenty bombs were dropped, and damaged the town. Four persons were injured.

THE HANDLEY-PACES. NEW YORK, July 8. The first American-built Handley-Page, the heaviest bombing plane, has been com- . Dieted and successfully tested. It is driven . by twin Liberty motors of 400 horse-power . each. VERSAILLES COUNCIL. LONDON, July 8. Mr Llovd George and tho overseas Prime Ministers are attending a War Council at Versailles. THE U BOATS. OTTAWA, duly 9. News received at an Atlantic port states that a loaded American transport, was attacked by eight U boats in the Bay of Biscay. 'Two of the U boats were sunk j bv "shellfire. i "The Norwegian vessel Augvald was tor- ! pedoed and sunk in mid-Atlantic. _ Three j men were drowned and 13 are ,missing. j