EASTERN FRONT.

Evening Star, Issue 16847, 24 September 1918, Page 6

EASTERN FRONT.

GERMANY’S BETE NOIR. ENTENTE FORCES ORGANISING BEHIND THE URALS. Reuter’s Telegrams. PEKING, September 22. The Kaiser on September 10 ordered all Germans in Russia who were fit for duty to join the Soviet troops and oppose Japan and the Allies, who threaten to restore the eastern front. Reuter’s VTadivostock correspondent writes: Czech Commander Garda (?Ghaida), in tho course of an interview, threw a good deal of light on the significance of the Kaiser’s warning. Colonel Garda stated that the organisation of the Russian armies behind the Urals is proceeding apace and already 150,000 men have been mobilised, although the troops at present lack essential military equipment. Three divisions are immediately needed to hold the Urals and allow th’e organisation to continue. Meantime the German tentacles are close on the Urals. The Government at Omsk have proved sufficiently strong to restore the civil administration throughout Siberia. FIRM HAND AT ARCHANGEL. RUSSIAN FACTIONS SUBDUED. NEW YORK, September 23. (Received September 24, at 10.10 a.m.) Delayed Press despatches from Archangel state that the allied diplomatic and military staffs assumed temporary control of affairs following on the attempted overthrow of the Tschaikovsky Government, and established a protectorate in the region behind the allied front, which, however, they relinquished when order was restored. Tschaikovsky and the members of his Cabinet are no ■ under allied protection.

Colonel Tchapplin, leader of the abortive cup d’etat against Tschaikovsky, has resigned his post of Commander-in-Chief of the Russian armies. Order is being maintained in the city. RUSSIAN DICTATOR SIGNS DEATH WARRANTS ALL DAY. NEW YORK, September 23. (Received September 24, at 11.20 a.m.) Mr Arno Doscli Flourot, writing from •Stockholm, says: “Peters has absolute power of life and death over anybody in Russia. A neutral who had "been before him many times pleading for the lives of innocent persons told me that Peters has become a furious little animal He signs death warrants all day, sitting in the Kremlin. On one occasion he signed away the lives of 72 officers without glancing at the paper.” “ The most aw hil figure of the Russian Red Terror is a dapper little blonde Lett named Peters. He is Commissioner Extraordinary against the counter-revolution. Peters lived in England for many years, and speaks Russian with an English accent. He daily signs away the lives of scores of men and women whom ho has never soon because they aro suspected of being against tho Bolsheviks.” KILLING NO MURDER. RASPUTIN’S MERITED END. NEW YORK, September 23. (Received September 24, at 10.30 a.m.) Dr Stanislaus Lazevert, a Russian colonel. has arrived to see President Wilson in connection with Siberia. He asserts that he, with four others—the Grand Duke Uimetri Paul, a captain of the Guard named Touchst, one Pourischekchontch, and a second Grand Duke who shall be nam dens—killel tho monk Rasputin outside Duke Paul’s palace in order to save Russia from defeat. (Received September 24, at 11.55 a.m.) Colonel Stardlaiw Deltazcvert is commander of the sanitary section of the Russian Rod Cross. He said that the report that Rasputin was lured into a house and then shot is untrue. THE BAKU CHAOS, ‘The Times,’ STOCKHOLM, September 22. Russian oyes-w it nesses of the capture of Baku state that tho inhabitants are chiefly workers, and they desperately defended the tpwn, and only succumbed alter two days to the superior forces of tho Turks and Kurds. Scenes of massacre and rapine followed. The town buildings and naphtha works wore set on fire, and great damage was done. Tho lioleheviks Vuvvo protested against the Turkish occupation oi Baku as a breach of the Brest-Litovsk treaty.