THE RUSSIAN CRISIS

Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 4906, 27 June 1918, Page 5

THE RUSSIAN CRISIS

SITUATION IN SIBERIA. BOLSHEVIK POWER COLLAPSES. BIG BATTLE THREATENING. The Times. i (Received June 26. 8710 p.m.) PEKIN. June 25. Bolshevik power- has collapsed in Western Siberia. The Czeclio-SJo-vaks control the Urals and the Irkutsk railway and have established o government', but 10,000 Austro-Ger-man prisoners under General Taube are moving against General Seminoff’s army, whose Cossacks are deserting owing to dissensions. ARMORED CAR HEROES. BELGIANS RETURN FROM RUSSIA. Australian and N.Z. Oablo Association (Received June 26, 5.5 p.m.) PARIS, June 25. The Belgian armoured car detachment which operated on the Russia front has arrived at Bordeaux, via Siberia, Japan and America. The authorities are arranging an official welcome. WARNING TO THE ALLIES BOLSHEVIKS' MAY AID GERMANY. Australian and N.Z. Cable Associat-,^ (Received June 26. 11 p.m.) OTTAWA, June 25. Count Bernstein, in an article in the New York Herald states: “Unless the Allies intervene in Russion the Bolsheviks will mobilise armies for Germany.” The New 1 York Sun’.s Washington correspondent attaches signficance to the fact that' M* Konovaloff, an influencial supporter of Kerensky, had a lengthy conference with M. Lansing, relative to intervention.

MURDER OF EX-CZAR REPORTED. GERMAN LANDING ON BLACK SEA COAST. Eeuter's Telegraniß. (Received June 26, 10.40 p.m.) NEW YORK. June 25. A message from Copenhagen says the Russian newspaper Vjia states that Red Guards broke into the residence of Nicholas Romanoff, the former Czar, at Eskatinbnrg, and murdered him. . A Moscow message states that the Germans have landed 3000 troops at Poti, on the Black Sea. HUNS AIDING BOLSHEVIKS GERMAN MOVE IN CAUCASUS. Australian and I* .Z. "Cable Association (Received June 27, 12.40 a -™-) NEW YORK. June 25. The United Press Stockholm correspondent states that the Bolsheviks are receiving direct aid irom Germany for fighting against the Czecho-Slovaks and Siberians. , Three thousand Germans hav® landed at ports near .Batum and it is believed that this is bhe first step to complete the occupation or the Caucasus. ALEXIEFF IN SIBERIA. CAPTURE OF IRKUTSK. Eeuter’s Telegrams. (Received June 26, 11.40 P-m.) V LONDON. June 20, Czecho-Slovak troops under General Alexieff have captured Irkutsk. JAPAN’S ATTITUDE. NO INTERVENTION AT PRESENT Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON. June 20. Japan has decided not to comply with the Entente’s request to intervene' in Siberia for the present.