RUSSIA

Evening Star, Issue 16823, 27 August 1918, Page 3

RUSSIA

SIBERIA AGAINST BOLSHEVISM. WASHINGTON. August 25. According to information reaching official circles, virtually all Siberia is controlled by anti-Bolshevist fo~ces. Irkutsk is the only important point in tho hands of the enemy. The State Department is advised that the Government at Omsk is similar to that formed at VladivostockHarmony' prevails between these two Governments, who will co-operate with the Allies against the Bolshirists and Germans. REFORM MOVEMENT IN WEST. ZURICH, August. 26. The Beilin ‘Lokal Anziegcr’s ’ Moscow correspondent states that tho Cadets, Popular Socialist Revolutionaries of the Right, and tho Minimalists have formed a union to regenerate Groat Russify excluding Poland and the Baltic Provinces. M. Boris Samelkoff has been nominated Dictator, with General AlexicfT# support. The union will not recognise the Brest-Litovsk Treaty, but propose to continue the war against- the Central Powers. REPRESSION IN MOSCOW. COPENHAGEN, August 26. Tho Pclrograd Telegraph Agency states that tho counter-revolutionists at- Moscow aimed at the occupation of the highest points in tho neighborhood of the city, whence to bombard tho Kremlin. The loaders were arrested, and six were shot. EXPLOITING THE UKRAINE. ZURICH, August 25. The ‘ Weiner Zeit ’ reports Hint two large companies have berm formed in Ukrainia with capital from German financiers. One is a.a industrial undertaking, with a capital of 20,000,000 marks,under Krupps’s direction: tho other is a bank, wtt’n a capital of 5,000,000 marks, under the auspices of the T)> utache, Dresden, and Darmstadt Banks and the Discontagoseiloschaft. FINLAND’S KINO. AY A SITING TON, August 25. German papers state that tho Grand Duke Adolf of Mecklenburg has accepted tho throne of Finland, offered him by a Finnish deputation now in Berlin. ALBANIAN CAMPAIGN. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association and Be uter. LONDON, August 26. Italian official: In Albania there is considerable fighting in the Semeni reginru Wo repulsed, with severe losses, a largo force which repeatedly attacked us northward of I'ierri. GERMANY AND SPAIN LONDON. August 26, The ‘Daily Chronicle's’ Amsterdam correspondent states that relations between Germany and Kpain seem to be_ causing much uneasiness in Germany. It is stated in reliable quarters that the situation is regarded as most serious. The German reply to tho Spanish Note was couched in much stronger terms than tho semiofficial announcement suggested. Most of tho newspapers endeavor to conciliate Spanish feeling, blaming the Entente propaganda, paying compliments to knightly Spain, and telling Spain she will always find Germany a good friend. But iui undercurrent of anxiety is plainly noticeable. The ‘ Yossische Zaitung 1 points out that if Spain breaks otf her relations aha will carry Spanish South A'/i erica, and notably Argentina and Chile, which would involve irreparable economic loss to Germany. The Government's greatest fear, apparently, is that submission to Spain iu the matter of submarining will create & precedent, of which tho northern neutral nations will quickly' take advantage, AMSTERDAM, August 26. ‘ Vorwarts ' is greatly concerned at the strained relations with Spain, and urges the Government to prevent Spain from joining her enemies, and so completing tha world’s coalition against Germany,