SOVIET RUSSIA.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1703, 17 December 1919, Page 5

SOVIET RUSSIA.

; THE POSITION IN SIBERIA. AUTONOMOUS FEDERATION PRO-

JEOTED. • By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Australian-New Zealand Cable A satiation. LONDON, Dec. ]5. , Mr Wilton (the London Times’ correspond, ent) writes Irom Russia that a greatfederatiou 'of autonomous Siberian provinces is projected as the result of a conference ol loaders. This replaces the earlier idea of the simultaneous restoration of the whole Emjpire, which died owing to tire suggested administration being unsuitable to Siberia. With the fall of Omsk, the creation of the Siberian Federation became urgent, in order to combat the eastward movement of the Bolsheviks, and also to meet the ’economic crisis involved in the tremendous slump of the rouble. KOLTGHAK’S PREDICAMENT. Vustralian-New Zealand Cable Association Received December 17, 8,50 a.m. NEW YORK, Doc. 16. The Chicago Tribune’s Paris correspondent interviewed Frederick Corse, the former chairman of the Russo-Americnn Chamber -of Commerce, who said: “I learn on the highest authority that Admiral Koltchak has informed the United States that unless the Allies extend aid. to the non-Bolshevik forces, he may be compelled to, cede a portion of Siberia to Japan, in order to save it from the Bolsheviks.

BOLSHEVIK ATROCITIES. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association ARCHANGEL. Dec. 15. When the Bolsheviks for tho second time occupied Voronezh they massacred whole families and executed all tho priests. Archbishop Tikhon Tar-sky was hanged at, his gate. All the churches have been closed. TERMS FOR ESTHONIA. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association Received December 17, 8.55 a.:n. COPENHAGEN, Dec. 14. Lenin’s terms to the Esthonians include a claim for a strategic frontier depriving the Esthonians of a good part of their territory and also that the Esthonians should be responsible for the larger part of tho Russian debt. GAINS AND LOSSES. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association Received December 17, 10.25 g.m. LONDON, Dec. 16. The War ’ Office in a communique states that the Caucasus army’s cavalry raided northward of Tsaritsin, taking prisoner 2500 Bolsheviks. Tho latter have captured Kharkov, Poltava and Berdechev. It is'reported that General Petloura (the Ukrainian leader) has escapM to Poland.

BRITISH PRISONERS IN RUSSIA. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association Received December 17, 12.35 p.m. LONDON, Dec. 15. It is understood the British Government considers Litvinoff’s proposals for the exchange of prisoners altogether unreasonable, as they exclude the exchange of officers aJid demand the releqao of certain Russians who are outside British jurisdiction and-the surrender of many_ more Russians than the British. Negotiations, however, are proceeding.