RUSSIA AND THE ALLIES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11613, 12 August 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA AND THE ALLIES.

LENIN’S DECLARATION OF WAR

THE LANDING AT ARCHANGEL Washington, August 11). The State Deportment has been officially informed that Lenin, in a speed), declared a state of war existed and the Allies, When the Allied Consuls in Moscow asked the Commissary of Foreign Affairs, M. Tchitchordii for an ex. planatiou, the latter said Lenin meant Russia was in a state of defence regarding the Allits, hut desired to continue relations with them as.with Germany. The Stata Department has also received official account of the landing of Allied troops at Archangel. Prior to iheif"arrlvu!, -.Alikcl aeroplanes circled the city and dropped Allied propangauda literature. The Bolsheviks lied from the city, many escaping in huosehoats up the river. The British, French and American arrested prior to tne Allied occupation of the city, hut later were released. The opinion is that if the Allied forces operating from Archangel continue in the direction of Vologda, the entire northern territory from Kola and Archangel to Vologda will be lost Bolsheviks.