RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17861, 6 August 1918, Page 5

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

ALLIED INTERVENTION

AMERICA'S OBJECT. NEW YORK. August 4

A State Department statement considers that military intervention in Russia would be more likely to augment tho present confusion than aitord a cure. ■ It is admissible only to rendei help and protection to the Czechoslovak against the Austrian-German prisoners Ivho aro attacking them, whether by Vladivostok of Murmansk and Archangel. The only present object of American troops will be to guard military .stores and render aid acceptable to the Russians in organising then self-defence.

ENGLISH AND FRENCH TROOPS

FOR SIBERIA. NEW' YORK. August 4

The "New York Times" Washington correspondent says that sovoral thousand Italian and Rumanian subjects of Austria-Hungary, formerly prisoners of war, have joined the Czecho-Slovaks, and adds that Britain and France ,are sending a few hundred soldiers to Vladivostok, who will act independently of the force.

COUNTER REVOLUTION

LENIN IMPLORES GERMANY'S AID. (Received August 5, 7.50 p.m.) LONDON, August 4. German newspapers publish a Moscow telegram staling that M. Lenin will shortly visit Berlin and Vienna to settle difficulties between Germany and Russia. He implores Germany's aid against the counter-revolutionary elements. POSITION IN UKRAINE.

REVOLT EXPECTED. AMSTERDAM, July 4. Martial law has been proclaimed in Ukraine.

Measures have been taken at Eiev against an expected revolt. The bodies of ten murdered German soldiers were found in the suburbs.

THE ROYAL FAMILY. CZARINA TO BE TRIED. (Received August 5, 7.50 p.m.) COPENHAGEN, August 4. A Moscow telegram has announced that the Government intends to try the Czarina respecting her relations with Rasputin.

JAPAN'S AID. '

LOANS TO ALLIES. (Received August 5, 9.45 p.m.) NEW YORK, August 6 :

The Japanese Financial Commission has issued a statement to the effect that it is Japan's intention to continue her financial policy in support of the Allies' financial programme lor financing the war. It is said that to da to Japan has advanced Russia, Britain and France 593,000,000 dollars (£122,016,000), of which Britain received 371,149,000 dollars (£76,368,000), Russia 137,048,000 dollars (£28,198,000) and France about 78,000,000 dollars (£16,019,000).