RUSSIA

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 144, 17 June 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA

JAP NESE INTERVENTION

INTEREST REVIVED.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.)

TOKIO, June 14.

Baron Yamagata's return 1 to To>kio and the reassembling of the high military conference have revived public interest in the question of Japanese- intervention in the war.

URGED BY ENTENTE,

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association

(ißec. June 17, 1 o.m.J TOKIO, June 15. Japan will increase her army to 25 corps.

The correspondent adds tthat the Entente Governments are urging Japanese intervention in Russia.

A Council meeting was held on the subject, at which Allied representatives wex'e present. M. Jules Destree, Belgian Minister to Petrograd, who escaped from Russia, said there were 20,000 armed German war prisonei-s in (Siberia. The TransSiberian railway was now the only communication with >» the outside world. This could easily be cut by German prisoners. "I saw an aimed German at every station, ostensibly allied with the Bolshevßts," he added.

PRUSSIA AND THE POLES.

' Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.)

AMSTERDAM, June 14.

During the suffrage debate in the Prussian Parliament. Korsansky, a Polish deputy,' declared that the suppression of the Poles forms parti of the Prussian caste's programme. The 'caste had unchained the world's hatred against Germany, and it, wanted to enslave the ' whole German people, who would live at peace only when v the caste's military power was broken.

RUSSIA AND THE UKRAINE.

(Reuter'R Telegrams.)

AMSTERDAM, June 15.

A provisional Russo-TJkraine treaty has been signed. It provides for the cessation of hostilities, the return home of the respective nationals, and exchange of prisoners of war. It also prepares for exchange' of railway material and new commercial relations. s

BOHEMIAN AND SLAV ADVANCE,

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association

MOSCOW, June 14. During Monday the Bohemians and Slavs advanced towai-ds Ouffa.

It is reported that all the towns on the (Siberian Railway from Tsheliabinsk to Tomsk are now in the Bohemians and Slavs' hands. Omsk was'occupied on June Bth by Slav and Cossack peasants undler Colonel Ivanoff. The Soviets' forces have retired' from Omsk and Tume.

EXPLOSIONS AT KD3FF.

{Renter's Telegrams.* AMSTERDAM, June IS.

The first details of 'animmense' munitions explosion, at the -rear of Kieff on the 6th inst .are :- given by the loksu Anzeiger's correspondent. Twelve Dig explosions and innumerable smaller ones lasted from ten o'clock in the morning until late in the afternoon. The entire business of the; city was suspended. Peoole were blown off the streets, ' and. buildings were whirled 1 into the air. The Swjerinetz Cathedral collapsed, and the street was impassable. A conflagration enveloped the whole neighbourhood. The'explosion isv;.ascribed to Bolshevist machinations.

DEFEAT OFEBD GUARDS. AMSTERDAM, June 15. A' Kieff message states that General Konerzer telegraphed to Von Eeichorn that a force of 10,000 Bolshevik Red Guards, commanded by Czech officers; was almost destroyed by his ti-oops west of Taganrog. The Bolsheviks had landed on the Ukraine coast in the Sea of Azov, and were advancing to attack Taganrog. Over 3000 dead Bolsheviks were left on the field, and he counted many drowned. General Konerzer _, claims that tho German losses were light. ■ (Rec. June 17, 8.50 a.m.\ LONDON, June 15.

A Kieff message from General Konerger states that Bolsheviks who landed on the coast of the Sea of Azovwere almost wiped out. Three thousand bodies were counted, and many perished in th e water.