RUSSIA'S PROBLEMS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17326, 28 May 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA'S PROBLEMS

THE QUESTION OF INTERVENTION. ALLIES CONSIDERING. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, May 26. It is understood that the Allies are seriously considering how to re-ostablish Russia, whoso situation is now regarded as hopeless. America will decide 011 the manner of the Allied assistance and how it can best bo given. PARIS, May 26. M. Marcel Gtembett, writing in Humanito, says: "No delusions should be nourished. The Germans, although limiting their ambitions to Irkutsk, could from there dominate the whole line to the Pacific, and could paralyse any attempted Japanese intervention. Japan's intervention is urgently necessary. Japan is willing to begin operations the moment Britain and America say the word. The Russian people -would accept intervention with guarantees that Japan is seeking neither territory nor conquest, nor to restore Czarism, nor to take the land from the peasants." FOOD RIOTS. ESPECIALLY AT NTJNI NOVGOROD. MOSCOW, May 26. ! Food riots have broken out in several 1 provincial towns. There was serious rioting at Nijni Novgorod, -where 10,000 employees of the Sormovo works declared a one-day's strike, and -passed a resolution in favour of the Constituent Assembly and against the Soviet. AUSTRO-GERIMAN PRISONERS. IMBIBE BOLSHEVIK DOCTRINES. MOSCOW, May 26. The German authorities of some of the occupied Russian territories have arrested a number of Austro-German war prisoners who had joined extremist political organisations. General Arnold has shot several hundred Austro-German internationalists, and has prohibited -war prisoners from participating in any Bolshevik organisation. FINLAND'S TUTELAGE. GERMAN INFLUENCE SUPREME. COP.&WHAGEN, May 26. _ It- is reported that Finland's commercial agreement with Germany gives Germany economic control over Finland for 20 years, -while Germany will finance a number of Finnish factories, particularly those producing articles suitable for export to Russia. A defensivo alliance has also been concluded, Finland undertaking to provide 100,000 troops to be at Germany's disposal in the event of Russia renewing hostilities. DISPOSAL OF ROMANOFFS. PETROGRAD, May 26. The German Embassy announces that the Do-wager Empress of Russia -will shortly proceed to Denmark, and the Grand Duke Nicholas to Montenegro. SAXON KING FOR LITHUANIA. AMSTERDAM, May 26. _ The Leipsriger Zeitung announces that in accordance with the expressed wish of the Lithuanian people, the Kaiser and the King of Saxony have given their sanction to the proposal that Prince George of Saxony shall become King of Lithuania, lie expects to be enthroned before the end of the war.