RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

Manawatu Times, Volume XL, Issue 13948, 29 July 1918, Page 5

RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

A Difficult Situation | [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.! (Received Sunday, 5 p.m.) AMSTERDAM, July 26. Lenin, in a speech at Mo-rv, said the position of the Republic .. i. uto owing to international com, . ..ions. It was easy for Russia to L ,;i;i her revolution, but it was extraordinarily difficult to continue and conclude it. United action by the workers of the entire world was essential to the viatoiy of the Russian revolution. SEMINOFF FALLS BACK. [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.! (Received Sunday, 5 p.m.) LONDON, July 26. It is officially confirmed that Japani has decided to accept the American proposal to assist the Czecho-Slovaks in Siberia. At Harbin, General Seminoff hag been compelled to fall back to a Manchurian station on his left flank, and is now inside the Chinese border. GRAND DUKES CARRIED OFF. [Asst. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Sunday, 5 p.m.) AMSTERDAM, July 26. An unknown band entered the residence at Ekaterinburg of the three Grand Dukes, Igor Constantine, Ivor Constantinovitch, and Sergi Miehaelovitch, and carried them off. FOOD POSITION IS ACUTE. [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.} (Received Sunday, 6 p.m.) WASHINGTON, July 27. The State Department advises that there is not a sufficient food supply for Russia’s needs and Germany is demanding large quantities from Russia. The position there is acute. BOLSHEVIKS DEFEATED ON THE VOLGA. LONDON, July 26. An official report from Moscow states that the Czecho-Slovaks, after a desperate resistance, captured Simbirsk. The Soviet army has abandoned the left bank of the Volga. The Soviet newspaper declares that the revolt is spreading like an epidemic. The fall of Simbirsk increases the danger, and the enemy (i.c., the Czecho-Slovaks 1 ) are numerous and well organised. CZECH’S MAKE BIG PROGRESS. [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Sunday, 7.5 p.m.) LONDON, July 26. Tho Czechs have considerably progressed from Vladivostock and are trying to join hands with tho Czechs in the west. The former have advanced 27 miles from Nikolsk. The forces under General Semenoff retired into Manchuria, before a strong Bolshevik force". The latter did not attempt to follow. , UKRAINE PEASANTS REVOLT. GERMANS DRIVEN BACK, [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Sunday, 7.5 p.m.) PARIS, July 26. A peasant revolt on a huge seals hag commenced in the Ukraine. A well-officered and organised fort* of 75,000 men has forced German detachments to fall back upon Kieff. BOLSHEVIKS REPUDIATED. BY PROVISIONAL SIBERIAN GOVERNMENT. [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Sunday, 7.20 p.m.) PEKING, July 27. The Provisional Siberian Government at Omsk, in a proclamation, declares that independent Siberia annuls the Bolshevik’s decrees and orders tho closing of the Soviets and the restoration of the land to the land-owners pending a settlement of the agrarian question by the Constituent Assembly. It raquests the Siberian Government a* Vladivostock to approve of its action. COSSACKS JOIN CZECHS. ‘V [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Sunday, 7.20 p.m.) SHANGHAI, July 27. Drastic changes have been effected in the personnel of the Siberian Government. The Ussurisk Cossacks have joiatd the 7 Czecho-Slovaks, whose eastern army is preparing to advance on Irkutsk. ACTED FIRST; TALKED LATER. JAPANESE LINKED WITH CZECHO SLOVAKS. [Aust. -N.Z. Gable Assn. Copyright.] (Received Monday, 12.15 a.m.) LONDON, July 27. The “Petit Parisien” states that Japanese detachments landed at Vladivostok weeks ago, and are co-operating with the Czecho-Slovaks north «f Nikolo-Roossurisk. UKRAINE RAILWAYMEN STRIKE. [Aust.-N.Z. Cable Assn. Copyright.] (Received Monday, 1 a.m.A Russian wireless message front Petrograd dated th e 27th says: Thefß were 111 cases of cholera on the 26th of July. The Ukrainian railway employees have struck, the Germans having confiscated the food reserves of the railway workmen.