RUSSIA.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VIII, Issue 214, 12 August 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

BOLSHEVIKS DOWNFALL APPROACHING.

(Received 12, 9. acni.) Copenhagen, August 11. The Czeciro-blovaks are nearing Moscow from the north-east and south-east, cutting off food supplies. German newsapers admit that the situation of Russia is critical and declare thilt the German Government must prepare for the immediate overthrow of the Bolshevik Government with the restoration of Entente influence in Russia. REVOLT IN THE UKRAINE. (Received 12, 9. a.m.) Amsterdam, August 11. I Peasant’s tevoits continue in many districts of the Ukraine, also the looting of German wheat stores.— A. A N.Z.) STATE OF WAR WITH ALLIES. LENIN’S DOUBLE GAME. Washington, Aug. 10. The State Department is ollicially informed that Lenin in a speech declared that a state of war existed between Russia and the -Allies. _ When the .Allied Consuls at Moscow asked the Commissary of Foreign Affairs, AL Tchiteherin, for an explanation the latter said that Lenin meant that Russia was in a state of defence regarding the Allies, but desired to continue relations with them as with the Germans. — (A. & N.Z.) ALLIED CONSULS ARRESTED. London. Aug. 10. Reuter's Agency learns that the Bolsheviks arrested Air- Robert Lockhart, British Consul-General at .

Moscow, as reprisal for the alleged firing upon Soviet members at Archangel. The Government has demanded Lockhart’s release. It is believed that the British and French Consulate Staffs have also been arrested.— (Reuter.) THE ALLIES AT ARCHANGEL. Washington, Aug. 10. The State Department has received an official account of the landing of the AJlicci troops at Archangel. Prior to their arrival Allied aeroplanes circled the city and dropped Allied propaganda literature. The Bolsheviks tied from the city, many escaping to houseboats on the river. The British, French and American Consuls were arrested prior to the Allied occupation of the city, but later were released. The opinion is that if the Allied forces operating from Archangel continue in the direction of Vologda the entire northern territory from Kola and Archangel to Vologda will be lost to the BolsheviksEASTERN SIBERIA. JAP A N ESE COM MA N DER-IN-CHIEF. Washington, Aug. 10. The Japanese General Kikiso Otani has been appointed coniman- • ler-in-chief of the Allif'«’ Siberian expedition. LENIN’S ULTIMATUM TO JAPAN (Received 12, 9. a.m.) Copenhagen, August 11. Lenin, after a stormy meeting with the soviets, sent an ultimatum to Japan in connection with that country’s intervention in Siberia—(A. and N.Z.)