DESPERATE IN RUSSIA.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 6080, 29 June 1918, Page 5

DESPERATE IN RUSSIA.

HUNDREDS ARE STARVING. POPULACE FIRED ON FOR SLIGHTEST EXCUSE. Helsingfors, Last Night. The situation in Russia is desperate. The overthrow of the Bolshevik I regime is expected soon and will be I aecompaftiied by bloody street fights. ; Ret! Guards at Petrograd are already i firing on the population on thj sliglit--1 est excuse. ' The new Siberian Government refuses to provide Russia with grain while Lenin remains ruler. Hundreds are starving to death daily, and the people’s only cry is for bread. Thousands of Russians are digging trenches from Pargala to the Finnish : Gulf. * The reason is unknown, but 1 Finland is watching their movements l with anxiety. ALLIES CONSIDERING INTERVENTION. London. Last Night. , In the House of Commons, Lord Robert Cecil said the Allied Government were constantly discussing meai sures for saving Russia from German [ invasion, domination and exploitation, but he was unable to make a definite statement at the present on the question of intervention. New York. Last Night. I The W asliington correspondent of , the ‘‘New York Times” says that the United States intends to assist Rus- | sia without delay, but her assistance ! will not be military. She will aim at a commercial, industrial and agricultural upbuilding of Russia. The Government will consult with the Allies, ; and will ask them to assist in this economic building-up process. A TERROR- STRICKEN COUNTRY BATTLES RAGING. ‘ THE POSITION IN SIBERIA. New York, Last Night. Doseli Fleurot, cabling to the “New Turk World." from Murmansk, Russia, says: The Finns and Germans are steadily advancing on Russian territory towards the Murmansk railroad. rhey are also advancing along the 1 orneo and Ktsxla rivers, and from Kopia via the Kein river. Their forces are now approaching in the direction of the White Sea. The ( ouncils of Workers and Pens- | ants in Northern Russia realise t hey can only be saved from German j enslavement by Allied help. Germany is not keeping the Brest Litovsk treaty, as the Germans took part in an operation against Russia, both in the Ukraine and in Finland. The Germans’ present endeavour is to cut off all communications between Petrograd and an Arctic port. A l uited Press Stockholm message says the representatives of the Siberian, Chinese, and Japanese Governments are holding a conference for the purpose of bringing the Chinese and Japanese to aid in the war against Germany in Siberia. Japan is asking for privileges in the exportation of minerals from Siberia in return for assistance. Bolsheviks arc sending Rod Guards to the villages to forcibly seize bread from the peasants. Battles are raging in the Olcnska.. \ iatka. Kurak, Sinihirsk, Kasap. Kosbromakasan. Riazian and OrlofT districts, and hundreds of peasants and R<d Guards have been killed. The Baltic Fleet sailors in Petrograd have revolted and demanded the abdication of the Bolsheviks. Workers exploded the munition and powder stores in Odessa and Bonder to prevent their seizure by the Germans. Many were killed. Latest reports picture a dosj>orate food situation in Petrograd Daily riots arc suppressed by the Bolshevik machine guns. BOLSHEVIKS MUST BE OVERTHROWN. Stockholm, Last Night. A delegation of Russian socin' revolutionaries has sent greetings to tlic British Labour Conference, declaring that the liquidation of the Bolshevik Government must precede tli- revival ol Russia, and that the shameful Brest Litovsk Pence Treaty must Is- abrogated. The delegation, hoped that the British Conference will lie followed by the convocation of an International Socialist Conference, which will give humanity the desired democratic pence.