PORTENTS IN RUSSIA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17242, 19 August 1919, Page 7

PORTENTS IN RUSSIA.

PETROGRAD WAVERING. NEW REGIME REPORTED. A. and N.Z. LONDON, Aug. 17. Advices from Heisingfors interpret the report of the establishment of a Socialist Coalition Government at Petrograd as an indication that the Bolsheviks are nearing the end of their tether. It is intended that the leaders will vanish, lest they be punished, leaving lesser officials to carry on propaganda, with a view to thwarting the establishment of a free democracy. NORTH-WEST GOVERNMENT. MODERATE MINISTRY. Reuter. HELSINGFORS, Aug. 17. It is reported that a new Russian north-western Provisional Government has been formed, with M. Lianzoff as Premier. The general complexion of the Ministry is moderately Revolutionary, Socialistic, and strongly anti-Bolshevik. FREEDOM FOR LETTLAND. GERMAN EVACUATION. ( Eeuter. PARIS, Aug. 17. The German Government has recalled General von der Goltz, who has been operating in Baltic Russia, and who refused to return to Germany when ordered by the Allies. A German Government Note to the Entente Powers denies that the evacuation of Lettland was purposely delayed. It was proceeding in accordance with agreement. Military leaders declare that the German volunteers are most bitter at the nonfulfilment of the Ullmani Cabinet's promise to allow them to settle and become Lett citizens. They emphasise the danger of increasing friction by over-hasty evacuation. JAPAN AND KOLTCHAK. UNABLE TO SEND AID. A. and N.Z. NEW YORK, Aug. 17The Tokio correspondent of the New I York Times says that it is authoriI tatively learned that the Japanese Government has informed the Koltchak Government that the Japanese are unable to send military aid against the Bolsheviks.