RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17933, 2 November 1918, Page 9

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

THE BOLSHEVIK LEADERS. BRITAIN'S WARNING. Reutor's TelegSMM. (Received November 1, 7.45 p.m.) LONDON, October 31. Lord Robert Cecil said that the Government was endeavouring to ameliorate the conditions of the British in Russia. It had warned the Bolshevik leaders that they would be held individually responsible for future violences ngainst British suvjecta. Every endeavour would be made to have themtreated as outlaws by all civilised nations. CZECHS RETIRING. POSITION WORSE. (Received November 1, 7.45 p.m.) LONDON, October 31. The situation of the Czechs , in Siberia, continues worse. They -ii'j retiring on the whole front except Ekaterinburg region. IN FINLAND. ANTI-GERMAN FEELING GROWING. (Received November 1, 7.45 p.m.) AMSTERDAM, October 31. . Public opinion in Finland is becoming puM-German. Tha Social Democrat*

Party's programme demands the de-j parture of German troops, and negotia-1 tions with tho Entente and America j for tta immediate importation of foodstuffs-