RUSSIA.

Evening Star, Issue 16848, 25 September 1918, Page 3

RUSSIA.

EASTERN SIBERIA SUCCESS, JAPANESE ON THE AMUR. Australian and N.Z Cable Association aud Keutsr. LONDON, Sept-ember 23. The Press Bureau reports : The Japanese Military Attache states that Japanese cavalry occupied Blagovestchenck (on the Amur) anil Alexiersk on the 18th inst. Two thousand Austro-German prisoners surrendered at Kotka, on the right Lank of the Amur. THE ASSASSINATION EPIDEMIC. Router's Telegprams. AMSTERDAM, September 24. Von Helfferich's resignation cf his post as German representative in Russia has been accepted. It is recalled that Von Helfferich, subsequent to the assassination of Count Mirbaeh, went to .Moscow, but fled after a. few days. STOCKHOLM, September 25. An unsuccessful attempt was mode to shoot Trotsky at Kur*k. MOSCOW, Septemb-;- 24. Alleging fresh attempts to assassinate members of the Soviet, it is unnounced that fresh reprisals will be carried out. 'Tfce Time*.' AMSTERDAM, September' 23. The ex-Tsar's body was exhumed from the forest where he was executed, and "-eremoniously conveyed to Ekaterinburg, where it lay in gtateat the cathedral prior to a temporary interment. WOOL WANTED AT HOME. The Minister of Imperial Supplies has informed the chairman of the Canterbury Grain Merchants' Association that, consequent on by the London Board of Trade, all the wool possible is to be shipped to Great Britain to the exclusion of gwreral cargo. -