RUSSIAN CRISIS

Southland Times, Issue 17833, 12 July 1918, Page 5

RUSSIAN CRISIS

ALLIED INTERVENTION. MURMAN COAST SAVED. NO AGGRESSIVE DESIGNS. TROTSKY PROTESTS. (By Telegraph.—Press Asstu—Copyright.). (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, July 10. Deceived July 11, 8.20 p.m. Russian newspapers which have reached England show that the Allied intervention on the Murman coast forestalled German attempts to close Russia’s last European outlet by sea. British marines landed on April 15th under joint Russian. French and British leadership, in order to assist the Red Guards against the Finnish White Guards. There are one French and two British warships, and some British traders at Murmansk. Admiral Kemp, on behalf of the Franco-British Governments, disavowed aggressive designs, and said their presence was only from a desire to help the Russian Republic to keep the Murman coast and railway. Nevertheless Trotsky on June 30th protested against the Entente’s interference. THE NEW STATE. WHOLE OF NORTH-EASTERN RUSSIA. AMSTERDAM, July 10. Received July 11, 8.20 p.m. A Moscow message states that simultaneously with the establishment of a White Sea Republic, a new State was created comprising the entire north-eastern Russia from the White Sea to the Asiatic border, called the Walogdagche. It is sympathetic with the Entente.

ANTI-BOLSHEVIK PROGRAMME,

WIDESPREAD POPULAR SUPPORT.

TOKIO, July 10. Received July 11, 8.20 p.m. The functions of the Siberia Commissaries seem to be analagous to those of a Provisional Government They have already adopted a broad, democratic, anti-Bolshevik programme, which is securing widespread popular support. They intend to summon their own Constituent Assembly, and establish a new Siberian State. NATIONAL AWAKENING. GERMANY UNEASY. WRONG METHODS IN THE UKRAINE. , NEW YORK, July 10. Received July 11, 5.5 p.m. The New York Times' Washington correspondent says that diplomatic despatches show that the events in Russia, and the successes of the Czecho-Slovaks, which seemingly indicated a national awakening, are visibly disturbing Germany. The working classes in Russia and the Ukraine are bitterly opposed to Germany. The Lithuanian Council of State has protested against the “annexationist tendencies apparent in Germany.” Herr Melchoir, who was appointed president of a commission to report on the Ukrainian situation, has returned to Germany from the Ukraine. He declared that it is impossible to import products from the Ukraine under two years. He condemned German methods, and said they must discontinue shooting peasants en masse because of their failure to supply grain. This method should be replaced by a pacific policy of friendly advice. STREET FIGHTING IN MOSCOW. AMSTERDAM, July 10. Received July 11, 7.45 pan. The Vossische Zeitung states that street fighting of the greatest bitterness continues at Moscow. The revolutionaries barricaded the Imperial theatre and used machine guns against the Bolshevik troops from the windows. ARRESTS AT MOSCOW. THREE OF KERENSKY’S MINISTERS. PARIS, July 10. Receded July 11, 7.45 p.m. The revolutionaries arrested at Moscow include three of Kerensky’s Ministers. CHOLERA IN SOUTHERN AREA. SPREADING TO HUNGARY. AMSTERDAM, July 10. Received July 11, 7.45 p.m. German newspapers report the outbreak of cholera in southern Ukraine and northern Bessarabia. It is spreading to Hungary. JEWS IN FINLAND. THREE MONTHS TO QUIT. STOCKHOLM, July 10. Received July 11, 7.45 p.m. According to the Jewish Press Bureau the Finnish Government has ordered the expulsion of Jews before the end of September, and has instructed communities to refuse them food after that date.