BOLSHEVISM

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17658, 23 June 1919, Page 5

BOLSHEVISM

BOLSHEVIST WARSHIP SUNK. ; NEAR A KRON'STADT FORTRESS. LONDON, June 20. A British submarine sank the Bolshevist cruiser Oleg on June 18 near the Tolbuchin lighthouse, off Kronstadt, the naval fortress guarding Petrograd.—A. and JN.Z. Cablo. RECOGNITION OF KOLCHAK. ALLIES' TERMS SET FORTH. AN AGREEMENT REACHED.' t PARIS, June 12 (delayed). (Received June 22, at 5.5 p.m.) Replying to General Kolchak, the Allies formally declared that their policy is to restore peace in Russia, enable her to control her own affairs through an elective Assembly, and arrange boundary disputes «hrough the League of Nations. Ihe experience of the last 12 months has convinced the Allies that it is impossible to do this through the Soviet Govem'•ment, therefore they are disposed to assist General Kolchak with munitions and food on condition that when he has reached Moscow he will summon a democratic Assembly or call the 1917 Assembly, pending fresh elections; also that he will not attempt to revive the special privilege of any class or regime destroyed by the revolution, and that he will uphold civil and religious liberties. The Allies also required General Kolchak to recognise the independence of Finland and Poland, and' autonomy in ii-stnoma, Livonia, Lithuania, the Caucasus, and Transcaspia, and accept the right of the Peace Conference to determine the future of the Rumanian part of Bessarabia; and that when Russia is reconstituted she will join the League of Nations. t a General Kolchak has replied, agreeing substantially to the Allies' terras, except the re-establishment of the 1917 Assembly, which was elected under Bolshevist violence. To-day the Council of Four agreed to support General Koltchak. According to other sources of information the Council of Four will not recognise General Kolchak, probably because his reply regarding summoning a Constituent Assembly is considered unsatisfactory and also because of his recent defeats — A. and N.Z. Cable. BOLSHEVIST REPORT DENIED LONDON, June 21. (Received June 22, at 5.5 p.m.) The Admiralty denies the Bolshevist report thau a British submarine sank the Russian cruiser Oleg. She nrobablv struck a Bolshevist mine.—A. and N.Z. Cable. ALLEGED INTRIGUE BY KAISER. A BOLSHEVIST REPORT. June 22. (Received June 23, at 0.5 a.m.) *.w .f wireless message states tftat the ex-Kaiser's agents at Odessa in February, sent Herr Zinger, former chief of the German Secret Service, to General Kolchak, proposing that the latter should co-operate in overthrowing the Soviets and then restoring the monarchies in Germany and Russia.—A. and N.Z. Cable.