RUSSIA

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIII, Issue 17, 22 January 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA

BOLSHEVIK BUDGET. AN ENORMOUS DEFICIT. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association), STOCKHOLM, dan. 18, Petrogufad advices 'State that, ithe Bolshevist budget forecast for 1919 totals ‘ four hundred (thousand million roubles'. The deficit will be enonnous. For example, the postal and telegraphic expenditure exceeds th© revenue by over fifteen hundred million roubles. INTERVENTION, URGED. (Rec. Jan, 22, H1.45 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. In tlie Peace Conference debate in reference to the Russian situation, Savenui, the Danish Minister, urged the Conference 16 decide oh intervention in Russia as the only means of saving the country. } TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILWAY. j TERMS OF INTERNATIONAL 1 CONTROL.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association) j .(Eec. Jan. s-22, A 0.30 a.m-). I NEW YORK,-Jan. 17. The New York Times’ Washington eorerspondent sayathat according to the •terms of the international control of the trans-Siberian and (Chinese eastern railway submitted to the United States by Ishii, Japanese Ambassador, control •will end when a stable and recognised ; Russian Government is established. ■ Despatches from 'Omsk state that - Admiral Kolchak proclaimed a national | election for ,a Constituent Assembly at ; the earliest possible ■ date. _ The dispatches, add that 'Omsk receiving daily wireless communications from Lyons, arid will soon be ab.e to send* wireless messages, throughout tne wordl. . .