RUSSIA.

Evening Star, Issue 16846, 23 September 1918, Page 3

RUSSIA.

ARCHANGEL EXPEDITION. SUCCESSFUL RIVER OPERATIONS. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association and Reuter. September 21. British North Russian official; On the Northern Dwina tat the mouth of which Archangel stands) the largest enemy armored steamer has been captured. General Karelian’s troops severely defeated German-led forces at Ukhtmkaya ( v Khibinskaya), 40 miles eastward ot the Finnish frontier. They pursued the enemy, who suffered heavily. LONDON, September 21. British North Russian official ; Successful operations by naval units and allied troops on September 16 and IT on tne Dwiua River resulted in the sinking oi two enemy ships, the capture of three guns, and the infliction of heavy losses. BOLSHEVIST OUTRAGES. AMSTERDAM, September 20. An Essen newspaper reports that the Bolshevists have arrested the British, French, Italian, and American Ministers at Passch, who were proceeding homeward through Russia. The ‘ Weser Zeitung's ’ Berlin correspondent states that the Soviet Government have requested the British representatives to leave Russia forthwith. WASHINGTON, September 21. The United States Government have decided to approach the Entente and neutral Governments to take steps, apart from the conduct of the war, to indicate the world’s disapproval of the Bolshevist outrages. , ~ The State Department understands that peaceable citizens in Russia are suffering extreme terrorism, being shot or imprisoned without trial. NEW YORK, September 20. A message to the ‘ New York World ’ from London says it is reported that the ex-Tsarina, the three of her daughters, and two grand duchesses were burnt to death by the local Soviet near Ekaterinburg. The Central Soviet ordered the local Soviet to shoot the Tsar, but to hold the family. The women, however, were brutally murdered at the same time as the ex-Tsar was shot. The Court servants identified the charred remains of the Tsarina, her daughters, and the grand duchesses by jewels found in the ruins of the burned house in which the family had lived.