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Evening Star, Issue 16846, 23 September 1918, Page 6

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ARCHANGEL EXEDITION. LETTS WON'T FIGHT BRITISH. Reuter’s Telegrams. AMSTERDAM, September 22. (Received September 23, at 9 a.ra.) According to German papers, the recent Bolshevik defeat on the northern front in Russia was due to the mutiny of the Lettish regiments, who refused to light against the British. [The Letts are Russians from the Baltic provinces, and are mostly Lutherans, and cot Greek Catholics.] THE POLISH PROBLEM. AMSTERDAM, September 23. (Received September 23, at 9 a,m.) A semi-official Berlin telegram says that the negotiations between Germany and Austria-Hungary regarding Poland _ are still without result. Germany, as before, i rejects the so-called Austro-Polish solution. BOLSHEVIK MASSACRES MAY EXTEND TO MOSCOW. 1 Iho Times.’ j CHRISTIANIA, September 22. j iTvocaive 1 September 23, at 8.45 a.rr.) j Fugitive: who have arrived from Mos- j row say that the Bolsheviks are showing | intense hatred of the British, and all males j between the ages of 13 and 45 are now . likely to be detained," which, it is feared, will bo equivalent to wholesale massacre. The Germans everywhere go unmolested. THE UKRAINE'S APPEALS. Reuter’s Telegrams. j AMSTERDAM. September 23. | :Received September 23, at 8.45 a.m.) j At a meeting of members of the Russian Duma and of the Imperial Council, v,dd at KietT, it was resolved to issue a manifesto appealing to all the Govern- 1 meats in Europe against the Bolsheviks’ S reign of terror. The Ukrainian Cabinet decided to send a protest to all countries against the arrest and shooting of Ukrainians in Russia, also to protest to Germany and urge her to protect Ukrainians in Russia. i ANOTHER COMPLICATION. | ‘ The Times.’ j STOCKHOLM, September 22. j (Received September 23, at 5.45 a.m.) j il is reported Loin Russia ta. t Profoss>r Miliukoff, Leader of the Cadets, has 1 formed a new party aiming at a constitu- | tionai pro-German monarchy. ! [Miliukoff ia an ex-Minister with a clean ; record for a Russian politician, and a good 1 reputation as a man and an educationist, j Ilia desire for peace and order, and (he j possibility of its achievement under Ger- , man auspices, were indicated by i m not I long ago in a speech, reports of which j hare lately been received.] j I ARRESTS IN MOSCOW. NEW YORK, September 22. (Received September 25, at 12.50 p.m.) Mr Arno Dosch Flenrot cables from Stockholm i Scores of Russians have been arrested at Moscow because they attempted to visit the United States Consulate, the arrests being made by agents of the Extra-' ordinary Commission against the counterrevolution. These innnocent prisoners are being held as hostages, and will probably be shot by order of the Bolsheviks. Russian?, accompanied by their wives, who attempted to visit the American Consul, Mr Poole, in Moscow while he was in 7aol, were arrested, and on attempt to obtain the release of the women was futile. THE VOLGA FRONT, ! i

CZECHOSLOVAK REIN- ! FORCSMENTS | COMING FROM SIBERIA. j WASHINGTON, September 21. | (Received September 23, at 12.30 p.m.) The Czechoslovaks’ National Council ir.nounce that, Czechoslovak troops are being rushed from Central Siberia to tbe assistance of their companions on the Volga front, who are hard pressed by the Bolshevik forces, officered by Germans and reinforced by German soldiers. The council officials point out that this movement arobably means nr. ultimate Czecuo-Slovak idvance on Moscow. TURKS DESTROYING BAKU, AMSTERDAM, September 23. {Received September 23, at 8.43 a.m.) The Russian Embassy at Berlin learns that the Turks have occupied Baku. The town is ablaze, and there are continuous explosions. i [lt may be mentioned that after the I conclusion of the Brest-Litovsk Treaty I Berlin has persistently tried, but unsuccessfully, to restrain the Turks in their I Caucasian operations.] j I MACKENSEN AGAIN. i MAY REPLACE LUDENDORFF BERNE, September 23. (Received September 23, at 8.45 a.m.) There are persistent reports that Marshal Von Mackensen will shortly replace Ludendorff, and will attempt a new defensive plan on the west front. GRUESOME BOOBY-TRAPS. ‘ Tba Times.’ LONDON, September 22. {Received September 23, at 9.50 a.m.) Mr Pirrie Robiroou writes that on the west front tno Germans are affixing mines to the corpses of German soldiers, so that when British burial parties lift them up an explosion follows. Frightfulness could hardly go further. EXPLOSION’S HEAVY DEATH ROLL, Reuter’s Telegrams. AMSTERDAM, September 22. (Ttecerred Septercber 23, at 8.45 a~m.) There were 382 killed and many badly Injured in the explosion at the Woellersdazi ammunition factory, near Vienna. >