RUSSIA

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 160, 4 July 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA

SITUATION IN Sfi&ARA

BOLSHEVIKS OVERTHROWN

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.)

LONDON. July 2.

The Daily Chronicle's .Stockholm correspondent learns from a • Russian source that the Bolsheviks, in response to an urgent demand, have promised to disarm and hand over the Czecho-S'lo-vaks to Germany. The Bolshevikist Government in Samara' has been overthrown. Some members of the Constituent Assembly have formed a provisional Governmnt and •issued a proclamation' stating that they will exercise power until the Constituent Assembly meets. Travellers state -_ that the Ukraine peasant movement is rapidly growing against General Shropadsky and the Germans.

BOLSHEVIKI'STS AND THE ROMANOFFS.

(Published in The Times.)

COPENHAGEN, July 2. The military authorities -in # Finland have decided to expel all Britishers. The Petrograd Soviet Commissioners describe the reported .murder of the Czar as a base fabrication.

The Archbishop of Perm ; has been arrested in connection,—with the esoape of the Grand Duke -jVßchael>* Whose wife, the Countess Brasova, has been arrested at Petrograd. v - Tlie Bolsheviks are growing impatient at. the frequent alarms about the dynasty, and are raising the question of eetling the fate of the Romanoffs so as to be done with them finally.

FINLAND

THE GERMAN ARIMY. "(Australian and N.Z. Cable Asfociation.) (Rec. Julv 4, 10,20 a.m. ) COPENHAGEN, July 2. The German army in Finland', now at least 50,000 troops, is concentrated on the Russian frontier. : The German!-Finnish army at several points has-crossed the frontier. INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC IN BRITAIN (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Rec. July 4, 10.10 a..m) LONDON, Jiily 3. Influenza is spreading in Britain. The staffs of many offices, shops and factories are much depleted, and many schools are closed. Four thousand children are affected at Dudley. There are some deaths.