RUSSIA'S PROBLEMS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17324, 25 May 1918, Page 7

RUSSIA'S PROBLEMS

THE WORM TURNING. SKOROPADSKY BEING BESIEGED. UKRAINIANS EXPELLING GERMANS. Router's Telegrams. . MOSCOW, May 23. (Received May 24, at 8.10 p.m.) Tho Rada at Kieff is mobilising; and concentrating all forces at its disposal, who arc besieging the residence of the Dictator (Skoropadsky). The latter is reported to be seriously wounded. The conflict originated owing to Skoropadsky mobilismg the White Guard and declaring the Rada dissolved. It is _ reported that violent fighting occurred in the region of Tchernigoff (about 80 miles from Kieff, on tho Desna), between German troops and supporters of the Rada, who, with the assistance of Polish Legionaries, drove out the Germans from several places. THE SIBERIAN SITUATION. JAPO-CHINESE SECRET AGREEMENT. The Tiftios. PEKING, May 23. (Received May 24, at 8.10 p.m.) _ Military delegates have completed and signed details of a Chino-Japanese secret plan for co-operation in Siberia. Recently the .Chinese people were hostile to the idea of intervention, but they are now completely indifferent. EX-CZAR'S REMOVAL. THE REASON EXPLAINED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. PETROGRAD, May 23. (Received May 24, at 7.30 p.m.) The ex-Czar s transfer to Ekaterinburg was dne to the discovery of a plot by ■which the local peasantry were to unite to effect the Czar's release. The Czar was to be accompanied by his daughter. GERMAN SUPREMACY IN FINLAND. WHITE GUARDS' GENERAL RESIGNS. PETROGRAD, May 23. (Received May 24, at 7.30 p.m.) General Mannenheim (in command of the White Guards) has resigned owing to dissatisfaction at German supremacy in the_ Finnish army. If he persists -in his resignation a number of officers will follow. Under the regime of the White Guards and the Germans 1752 nersons had been executed up to the Ist May. GENERALS KORNILOFF AND ALEXIEFF. GERMAN PRISONER'S STORY. Reuter's TelogTams. AMSTERDAM, May 23. (Received May 24,' at 7.30 p.m.) The Vossische Zeitung publishes a story bv a returned German prisoner from Russ'a >™ ho sa y s he witnessed the execution of Generals Alexieff and Kornlioff by the Bolsheviks at Vovtuherkasik on the 21st February. LENIN'S LATEST MOVE. PAPER MONEY DEVALUATION. Reuter's Telegrams. MOSCOW, Xlay 23. (Received May 24, at 7.30 p.m.) Lenin announces that the devalution of paper money is imminent. Critics point out that this will determine the peasants more than ever not to sell their food supplies.