RUSSIA.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 115, 21 May 1918, Page 1

RUSSIA.

SEGOKD EDITION

(Reuter's Telegrams.) (.Roc. iMu.v 21, 11.35 a.m..) LONDOiN, May 20. /A Russian wireless message stales that the Germans hi the Reval region violated th<> boundary fixed on bin •March aud advanced eastwards despite the protests of the ißussian commander. The Foreign Commissary requested the withdrawal of troops and White ■Guards at Helsingfors and executed the Russian fleet Commissary, Jcmtchujin, on a pretext of conducting a revolutionary campaign among the German murines. The German commander replied to the protests of the 'Russian Admiral that Jemtchujni outlawed himself by inciting a mutiny. (Rec. (May 21, 11.35 a.m.) PETiRiOGRAD, 'May 20. The Germans occupied Bjorko, in tno Gulf of Finland, south of Viborg. The Soviet forces at Baku are m deadly conflict with the Mussulmans.^ A Moscow paper states that 2000 were killed and 3000 wounded in the recent fiVhting. ~'■,• Various parts of Baku, including entire streets and the Persian Bazaar, are burning. WEST FRONT. (Rec. May 21. 1-40 p.m.) " LONDON 1 , May 20. A French communique states that there was only intermittent artillerying north and: south of tho Awe. AMERICANS ON~WESTERN FRONT. (Rec. May 21. 1.40 p.m.)..,.. WASHINGTON, May 20.,., I It is officially announced that the Americans hold more front line trenches than the Belgians, wha until ■■■ recently ranked next to tho British. .., •• It, *is also officially.intimated that aa a result of arrangements for forwarding troops this year there is. a possi.bility of more than two millions being. sent overseas. * •• Allowing for casualties the American forces will number close or> two millio,, before, the end of the year. The fact that American troops are ■briiraded with British enables ißritish supplies, being used, thus affording a great increase of shipping room for tho transport of troops. PROMINENT AMERICAN AIRMAN KILLED. (Rec. May 21, 11.50 a.m.) •NEW YORK, May 20. A report from the American front ! states that Major Rovul Dufberry, _ati i American air herd; fcjgnevl.Y'of the Lafayette Pioneer Flyirif"Corps, was shot. , and killed on Sunday during a running, air fight. His body has been recovered. REDUCED SINKINGS BY SUBMARINES. (Rec. May 21, 2.5 p.m.) ...,.,.; WASHINGTON, May ,20..: t Tho Navy Department announces that America is increasing her patrol forces in European waters. This is one of the factors of the reduced, sinkings by sua--111 The "Department feels that the sub'marine menace is greatly decreased.. There is some reason, to believe Hint Germany has super-submarines of un- . usual power and cruising radius, but it is impossible to verify these report.-. (Rec. May 21, 2.5 p.m.) ■ PARIS. May. 20 A French trawler sank a iGernmii submarine and prisumred' the commander and liberated the captain and. crew of a Spanish sailer who were aboard the submarine. , Another submarine torpedoed t»o 1 Spanish steamer Villa de Solla. PLOT IN IRELAND. (Rec. Mav 21. 1.40 p.m.) ' ' LONDON, May 20. The arrests number over a hundred, including 73 Sinn Feinners who sailed from Kingstown to Holyhead, on Satinf*A huge crowd at Kingstown cheered the prisoners. The crowd • touting "tin with the Rebels!" and "Smash tho Nationalists!" .. ~ ~ '. v The police later dispersed the c>o" d > which was commencing to. sing J-no Soldier's 'Son." . . _, . , Arrests continue in AthloHe.--Galwa\v 1 Cavan. Cashel. Sligo, Dundalk, .JKUkenny, Clonmel, Roscommon, and <borJ<, but principally in Dublin. . • ' ;- I Four Sinn Fein -Commoners have thus 1 far been arrested, apart from MrTJmI ne\\, who is sewing six months imprisonment in Mount Joy Prison. ! sonment in Mountjoy Prison. . _. • Practically the whole of the governing body of the Sinn Fein movement la hl The general belief is that the Catholm elerev will now abandon their original attitude of stern resistance. A.wellknown Dublin priest said on -Sunday, "ir it is true that a German plot existed in Ireland, the great majority of tho Nationalists would • withdraw the r sympathy from the Sinn Fein movement and centre their hopes tor «»!««"■ *«" tlement in constitutional methods under Mr Dillon's party.'* It is believed in Dublin that Mr Dl- - may decide to bnn 2 back Ins followers to "Westminster and interrogate tho Government regarding the German plot, especially as Lord French's tion virtually admits that the conscnp--1 tion policy has failed. (Published '.in The Times.) _';■ (Rec. May.2l. 1:40 p.m.) * . LONDON-, May 20. For months the .knowledge that a new conspiracy was maturing weighed i on Ireland like a nightmare. Tangible evidences threeof were numerous, .including lootings of aims and explosives and boastings by orators. . All Irish loyalists are convinced that ■Germany is at the bottom of tho trouble \ She believed another rebellion was possible should the Allies meet with serious reverses in France. Ihe authenticity of the evidence is unquestioned. The Times, in a leader, says it is most necessary to publish the . evidence j immediately so as to aispel the cloud) of sensational rumour afloat. . The Daily Mail's Dublin correspondent , says it is believed that the Sinn. Seiners prepared a decentraWsed control'of. their organisation in the event pf the Central Committee being put but of action. Ihe most important documents were destroyed or removed and the Conscription Fund, totalling £200,000. remains in tho hands of the local h