RUSSIAN SITUATION

Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 4905, 26 June 1918, Page 5

RUSSIAN SITUATION

QUESTION OF INTERVENTION. THE ALLIED OPPORTUNITY NATION CAN BE REORGANISED. ANOTHER URGENT APPEAL. Australian ana N.Z. Cable Association NEW YORK. June 24. ’ Herman Bernstein, an American editor-correspondent, who studied conditions and interviewed notabilities in Russiaf"writes: Unless the Allies intervene in Russia and save her from Germany the Allies may loss the war. Nine-tenths of the population of’ Russia favor Allied intervention,. military and economic. A few divisions of troops arriving in Russia this summer would enable the nation to reorganise and resist Germany. The conditions in Moscow and Petrograd are at the very worst. Men are shot down by the Bolsheviki agents in order to terrorise the masses. Courts of justice are discontinued, and persons are executed or imprisoned without trial. BRITAIN’S OFFER. WILL STAND BY RUSSIA. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON. June 24. Mr. Lloyd-George states: If Russia wants it, Britain is ready to stand by her. THE SOUTHERN FRONT. GEORGIANS STILL IN THE WAR. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. MOSCOW. June 24. The Georgian Republic has decided to continue the war against Turkey. Armenians defeated the Turks and are driving them towards the frontier. Germans are guarding the TransCaucasian railway. BOLSHEVIK LEADER KILLED. assassination in petrograd Eeuter’s Telegrams. . (Received June 25. 11.20 p.m.) LONDON. June 24. 1 Reuter’s Petrograd correspondent states that a prominent Bolshevik leader named Yolordarsky was shot dead in the street.