REPUBLICS IN RUSSIA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18678, 7 April 1924, Page 9

REPUBLICS IN RUSSIA.

CONTROL BY THE SOVIET. REBELLION IN TURKESTAN. COMING COUP DE GRACE. By Telegraph Preea Association—Copyright. (Received 5.5 p.m.) A. and N.Z. ! DELHI. April 4. Advices from Turkestan, Russian Central Asia, indicate that the Russian control of the former independent republics of Khiva and Bokhara has been firmly secured. The rebel •. activity under Jumaid Khan is likely to receive its final blow in the next few weeks. The two States referred to are now styled, the Khorezm (Khiva) and Bokhara Soviet Republics respective!v. They , are bound by treaties to the Russian Soviet. The Turkestan Republic, with Tashkend as the capital, is officially described" as an autonpmous Socialist Soviet Republic.

j reply to British inquiries recently made. as to the constitution of Russia at present, in view of Britain's recognition, the Soviet, representative. M. Hadovsky stated that the authority of the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics "extends throughout all the territories of the former Russian Umpire, with the exception of those which have been , severed with the consent of the Soviet Government, and on which independent States have been constituted." IJo sa -Acuity arose at Genoa , en Mr. Tchitcherin, on behalf lof "Russia," signed the pact of nonaggression. He then used the formula "the Russian Soviet Government and Wie Governments at present allied with the Russian Soviet .Government." It is clear that neither then nor now can the Moscow Government - bind anything so extensive as the old Russian Empire to any undertaking, remarks the diplomatic correspondent of the London Observer. Apart from the new —Poland, Finland, and the Baltic —which have been detached from Russia, there are fifteen separate republics carved out of the remaining territory. Only seven of them are part of the federation under the Moscow Government. These seven a re autonomous republics, but owe their origin to decrees of the Moscow Government. The seven are the Bashkir. Tartar, Kirghiz; Daghestan. Gorsky, Turkestan, Crimean Republics. The remaining eight • republics are independent, and have been recognised as such by Moscow. They are Ukraine Khoresm (Khiva), Bokhara, Georgian, Armenian, Azerbaijan, White Russia, and Far Eastern Republic. Moreover, it is not settled whether th« Ukraine includes Bessarabia or not, or is thought by the Ukrainians themselves to include it. There seems to be no difficulty in assuming tlat the Rakovsky Note commits the seven allied Republics, whicl" have Ministers at Moscow, and which arc dependent financially on Moscow but the question whether the other eight are committed remains to be settled.