COMBINED ENTENTE EFFORTS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 115, 20 May 1918, Page 5

COMBINED ENTENTE EFFORTS

TO SOLVE RUSSIAN PROBLEM.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.)

.(Rec. May 20, 9.30 a.m.) PARIS, May 18. The entire French press urges early combined effort to solve the Russian problem and prevent Germany reorganising Russia m Germany's interests. Le Temps says the first necessity is coherent method -and suggests that the Entente begin by getting coherent information by. centralising and.examin ing the news. Washington would be the most suitable centre.

SIBERIA.

GENERAL SEMINOFF'S ARMY.

STEADILY ADVANCING.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.)

(Rec. May 20, 10.10 a.m.) WASHINGTON, May 18.

Information has reached Russian diplomatic circles that General Seminoff's forces ar e moving on Irkutsk steadily. It is expected he -will soon reach Lake Baikal, which wouvd remove the control of Siberia east of the lake from the Soviet Government at Moscow. MUTINOUS GERMAN REGIMENTS. IN THE EAST. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Rec. May 20, 12.30 p.m.) MOSCOW, May 19. A mutiny pccurred in German regiments at Wesenberg, in Esthonia. Several officers were killed. The German high command sent trustworthy troops and arrested two hundred of the mutineers, ten of whom were immediately shot. Another mutiny occurred in. German regiments at Dvinsk. THRONES IN THE EAST. VORWAERTS SARCASTIC. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Rec. May 20, 12.30 p.m.) AMSTERDAM, May 19. The journal Vorwaerts states that various German courts are most excited regarding the opportunities of obtaining a throne in the East. Agents are journeying in all directions on behalf of competing claims. As there will be at most six thron«s to distribute and the German dynasty number 22, Vorwaerts suggests the filling of the thrones with Turkish princes, otherwise German unity will be imperilled.