RUSSIA'S PROBLEMS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17428, 24 September 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA'S PROBLEMS

ANOTHER COMPLICATION. M. MLLTUKOFF AS LEADER. Tho Times. STOCKHOLM, September 22. It is reported from Russia that Professor Miliukoff, Leader of the Cadets, has formed a new party aiming at a constitutional pro-German monarchy. RECENT BOLSHEVIST DEFEAT. LETTS DECLINE TO FIGHT THE BRITISH. Router's Telegrams. AMSTERDAM, Sepember 22. According to German papers, the recent Bolshevist defeat oil the northern front in Russia was due to the mutiny of the Lettish regiments, who refused to ' fi<*ht against the British. ° BOLSHEVIST TERRORISM. PROTEST FROM UKRAINIA. Reuter's Telegrams. AMSTERDAM, September 22. At a meeting of membens of the Russian Duma and of the Imperial Council, held at Kieff, it was resolved to issue a manifesto appealing to all the Governments in Europe against the Bolshevists' reign of terror. The Ukrainian Cabinet decided to send a protest to all countries against the arrest and shooting of Ukrainians in Russia, also to protest to Germany and urge her to protect Ukrainians in Russia. CZECHO-SLOVAKS. ATTEMPTED RELIEF FOR VOLGA CONTINGENT. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. WASHINGTON, September 21. The Czecho-Slovaks' National Council announces that Czecho-Slovak troops are being rushed from Central Siberia to the assistance of their compatriots on the Volga front, who are hard pressed by the Bol&hevist forces, officered by Germans and reinforced by German soldiers. The council officials point out that this movement prohahly means an ultimate Czechoslovak advance on Moscow. WISHED -TO VISIT AMERICAN CONSUL. WHOLESALE ARRESTS OB' RUSSIANS. WILL PROBABLY BE SHOT. NEW YORK, September 22. Mr Arno Dosch Fleurot cables from Stockholm : Scores of Russians have been arrested at Moscow because they attempted to visit the United States Consulate, the arrests being made by agents of the Extraordinary Commission against the counterrevolution. These innocent prisoners are being held as hostages, and will probably be shot by order of the Bolshevists. Russians, accompanied by their wives, who attempted to visit thie American Consul, Mr Poole, in Moscow while he was in gaol, were arrested, and an attempt to obtain the release of the women was futile. BOLSHEVIST HATRED OF BRITISH. WHOLESALE, MASSACRE PROBABLE. Tho Timea. CHRISTTANIA, September 22. Fugitives who have arrived from Moscow say that the Bolshevists are showing intense hatred of the British, and all males between the ages of 18 and 45 are now likely to _be "detained," which, it is feared, will be equivalent to wholesale massacre. The Germans everywhere <*o unmolested. s ° FUTURE OF POLAND. NEGOTIATIONS STILL RESULTLESS. Australian and N.Z. Cablo Association. AMSTERDAM, September 22. A semi-official Berlin telegram says that the negotiations between Germany and Austria-Hungary regarding Poland are still without result. Germany, as before, rejects the so-called Austro-Polish solution. TURKISH OCCUPATION OF BAKU. THE TOWN ABLAZE. AMSTERDAM, September 22. The Russian l Embassy at Berlin learns that the Turks have occupied Baku. The town is ablaze, and there are continuous explosions.