RUSSIA.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 2 August 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

REIGN OF TERROR. IN UKRAINE,

LIVELY ALARM IN GERMANY

CZECHO-SLOVAK MOVEMENT AD-

MITTEDLY CRITICAL

HOSTILITY TO GERMANY IN-

CREASING

CHOLERA IN PETROGRAD

AMSTERDAM, July 31

in consequence of General yon Eichorn'is assassination, a reign of terror prevails in the Ukraine. The authorities are searching1 houses and making wholesale arrests, including the first secretary of the Hetman's Govern-ment.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. LONDON, Aug. 1. The Daily Mail states that even the Germans shuddered when General yon Eichorn gas-shelled the Ukraine villages and machine-gunned meetings of peasants, whose enforced enlistments were equivalent to slavery.—United Service. AMSTERDAM, July 31. The Hamburg Fremdenblatt states that heavy storm-clouds are gathering on the political horizon in Ukraine. The Government is meeting the unrest by numerous arrests. General yon Eichorn was promoted to field-marshal in March, when he ordered the Ukrainian peasants to cultivate noblemen's estates in order to feed Germany. Those refusing were flogged and imprisoned, with the result that guerilla warfare has broken out, the peasants enormously damaging the proprietors' estates. General Eichorn's assassin gives the name of Boris Daske, agent of the Social Revolutionary party. He came from Moscow a few days ago, and says he was instructed by the Central Committee to kill Eichorn, he being furnished with a bomb, revolver and money.—Times Service. PARIS, July 31. Japanese-American intervention in Siberia is causing the liveliest alarm in Germany, compelling a change in strategy. Herr yon Hintze has arrived at the main headquarters, and is conferring with'the commanders.—United Service. NEW YORK, Aug. 1. The New York Times' Washington correspondent says the State Department has furnished th© Japanese Government with information asked: for regarding certain points in President Wilson's views regarding joint intervention in Russia. The entire matter is now before the Japanese Foreign Office, which must decide if the American plans meet with Japanese views. The correspondent adds that he authoritatively learns that the Entente is organising military forces for joint action, anticipating a satisfactory conclusion of the negotiations between Japan and the United .States.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assn. NEW YORK, July 31. Advices from Kandalasko (Russian Lapland) say that the Allied Embassies, which recently left Vologda for Archangel,' were not permitted to remain at Archangel, but were ordered to proceed to Kandalasko. The diplomats left Cologda when warned by M. Tchitcherin, who urged the Embassies to go to Moscow, but the invitation was refused. It was the Soviet Government at Archangel which would not permit the diplomats to remain. The New York Times' Washington correspondent states that the State Deartment officials are unable to throw any light on the movement of the Allied Embassies to Kandalaska. Some of the officials assumed that the diplomats were leaving Russia for a Pacific port.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. COPEx\ THAGEN, July 31. German newspapers are displaying increasing alarm at the anti-German hostility in Russia, particularly the resistance to German attempts to gain ground in Russian commercial life. Meanwhile the Bolshevik Government openly admits that the Czechoslovak movement is becoming critical. The Czecho-Slovaks are approaching Moscow, which is seriously threatened. Street fighting occurred in Moscow, but the Government suppressed, the revolt.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. LONDON, July.3l? A manifesto of the Independent Labor party protests that the Allies' expeditions in Murmansk and Siberia are being carried out in direct opposition to the Russian Government's wishes, and have created alarm and resentment among the mass of the Russian people, being supported only by aristocratic and capitalistic classes and a few Liberal-Socialist supporters of Kerensky's Administration.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. STOCKHOLM, July 31. Representatives of the Russian Social Revolutionary and Social Democratic parties have arrived here. Prior to proceeding- to England and France thoy issu-ed an appeal to the Socialists of Europe emphatically denouncing the Bolsheviki as despotic reactionaries, and declaring that the overwhelming mass of Russian peasants and workmen are not only anti-Bol-shevik, but are on the point of rising against Bolshevik tyranny. The abovenamed parties therefore propose the creation of an international commis- ; j sion of representatives of all Socialist 1 parties to visit Russia and enquire fully into the effects of Bolshevism.— ) Router. • AMSTERDAM, July 31. » Cholera in Petrograd is continually [ increasing. There were- 170 cases re--1 corded on the 20th and 209 on the r 21st.—Router.