RUSSIA'S PROBLEMS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17429, 25 September 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA'S PROBLEMS

SITUATION AT ARCHANGEL. ALLIES' RESTORE ORDER. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. A NEW YORK, September 23. Delayed press despatches from Archangel state that the Allied diplomatic and military staffs assumed temporary control of affairs following on the at- •*■' tempted overthrow of the Tschaikovsky S ( Government, and established a protec- °' torate in the region behind the Allied °' front, which, however, they relinquished n when order was restored. Tschaikovsky and the members of his Cabinet are under "' Allied protection. | a j Colonel Tchapplin, leader of the abortive coup d'etat against Tschaikovsky, has resigned his post of Commander-in-Chief of the Russian armies. Order is being maintained in the city. A LETTISH MARAT. BUSY SIGNING DEATH WARRANTS. A BLOODTHIRSTY DICTATOR. NEW YORK, September 23. Mr Arno Dosch Fleurot, writing from Stockholm, says: " The most awful figure of the Russian Terror is a dapper little blonde Lett named Peters. He is Commissioner Extraordinary against the counter-revolution. Petera lived in England for many years, and speaks Russian with an English accent. He daily signs away the lives of scores of men and women whom ho has never seen because they are suspected of being against the Bolshevists. " Peters has absolute power of life and death over anybody in Russia. A neutral who had been before him many times pleading for the lives of innocent persons told me that Peters has become a.furious little animal. Ho signs death warrants all day, sitting in the Kremlin. On one occasion he signed away the lives of 72 officers without glancing at the paper." BEHIND THE URALS. RUSSIAN MOBILISATION PROCEEDING. Router's Telegrams. PEKING, September 22. The Kaiser on September 10 ordered all Germans in Russia who were fit for duty to join the Soviet troops and oppose Japan and the Allies, -who threaten to restore the eastern front. • Renter's Vladivostock correspondent writes: Czech Commander Ghaida, in the course of an interview, threw a good deal of light on the significance of the Kaiser e warning. Colonel Ghaida stated that the organisation of the Russian armies behind the Urals is proceeding apace and already 150,000 men have been mobilised, although the troops at present lack essential military equipment. Three divisions are immediately needed to hold the Urals and allow the organisation to continue. Meaui time the German tentacles are close on , the Urals. The Government at Omsk has proved , sufficiently strong to restore the civil ad- , ministration throughout Siberia. THE CAPTURE OF BAKU. . ARSON, MASSACRE, AND RAPINE. The Times. STOCKHOLM, September 22. Russian eye-witnesses of the capture of Baku state that the inhabitants are chiefly workers, but they desperately defended ' the town, and only succumbed after two I days to the superior forces of the Turks ' and Kurds. i Scenes of massacre and rapine followed. : The town buildings and naphtha works were set on fire, and great damage -was - done. The Bolshevists have protested against 1 the Turkish occupation of Baku as a i breach of the Brest-Litovsk Treaty. 3 RASPUTIN'S END. [ > ACCOUNT BY AN EXECUTIONER, 5 Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. > NEW YORK, September 23. Dr Stanislaus Deltazevert, a Russian j colonel, has arrived to see President , Wilson in connection with Siberia. He asserts that he, with four others— ' the Grand Duke Dimitri Paul, a captain of the Gttavd named Tpuchat, one Pouri- • schekchoatch, and a second Grand Duke who shall be nameless—killed the monk Rasputin outside Duke Paul's palace in order to save Russia from defeat. Colonel Deltazevert is commander oE t> the sanitary, section of the Russian Red p Cross. He said that the report that Rasputin was lured into a house and then shot is untrue. TROTSKY'S LIFE ATTEMPTED. STOCKHOLM, September 23. (Eeceived Sept. 24, at 7.20 p.m.) An unsuccessful attempt was made to shoot Trotsky at Kursk. EX-CZAR'S BODY EXHUMED. TEMPORARY INTERMENT INTENDED. IC I The Times. AMSTERDAM, September 23. (Received Sept. 24, at 7.20 p.m.) The ex-Czar's body was exhumed from : : the forest where he was executed, and t_ ceremoniously conveyed to Ekaterinburg, p. where it lay in state at the cathedral e prior to a temporary interment. % JAPANESE CAVALRY ACTIVE. e ° AUSTRO-GERMAN PRISONERS / j r SURRENDER. s Australian and N.Z. Cable Association and ' Reuter. ' LONDON, September 23 "t -r (Received Sept, 24, at 11 p.m.) , . The Press Bureau reports : The Japanese , Military Attache states that Japanese ' cavalry occupied Blagovistchensk and v ' o Alexievsk on the 18th inst. Two thousand . Austro-German prisoners surrendered at ° Kokka, on the right bank of the Amur. ?® VON HELFFERICH RESIGNS. 1( j ' B outer's Telegrams. er AMSTERDAM, September 24. 1( j (Received Sept. 24, at 11 p.m.) lf j Von. Helfferich's resignation of his post 1( j as German representative in Russia has p. been accepted. It is recalled that von s Helfferich, subsequent to the assassina,- ~ tion of Count Mirbach, went to Mosco\?, C g but fled after a few days. FRESH SOVIET REPRISALS. MOSCOW, September 24. (Received Sept. 24, at .11 p.m.) Alleging fresh attempts to assassinate members of the Soviet, it is announced that fresh reprisals will be carried out. ad " BRITISH LABOUR'S ATTITUDE. [ h STIFFENED BY AMERICAN ns LEAVEN. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. NEW YORK, September 23. The American Socialist Mission which hasS been in Europe has arrived at an R. Atlantic port. Members state that 'the announcement of President Wilson's democratic aims stiffened British Labour's a . morak and prevented the adoption of a n . defeatist resolution at the British Labour [ lc Conference. There is, they report, a ,-,. noticeable decay of defeatist sentiment ; s amongst the Allies. at MILITARY CROSSES. SECURED BY NEW ZEALAXDERS. LONDON, September 23. The Military Cross lias been awarded to the following" New ZeaJanders :—Captain H. W. Kennedy. Lieutenants M. M'Donad aid, 11. T. Marshall, J. A. Roy, M. A. iStedman (Rifle Bricjade); Captain J. R. Leys, Lieutenant N. H. Hn.rper (Infantry); Lieutenants E. R. Black. P. G. p- Dohert.v, A. S. Herbert (Mounted Rifles); l's A. G. Crawford (Camel Corps); C. Harris be (Machine Gunners); and Chaplains M. .y. Mrdliaecx aid C B* Seton,