RUSSIAN CRISIS

Southland Times, Issue 17851, 5 August 1918, Page 5

RUSSIAN CRISIS

ALLIES LAND AT ARCHANGEL. (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) NEW YORK, August 3. Received August 4, 5.5 p.m. An anti-Bolshevik revolution has broken out at Archangel, and the Soviets have fled. The Allies have landed troops at Archangel, THE ASSASSINATIONS. GERMANY DEMANDS STRONG MEASURES. BERNE, August 3. Received August 4, 5.5 p.m. Dr Helfferich, op behalf of the German Government, sent a message to Trotsky stating that the murders of Eichom and Mirbach were plotted in Moscow, and demanding that the Maximilist Government search severely for and punish the perpetrators, and also destroy all hotbeds of antiGerman intrigue in Moscow and Petrograd. STARVATION AND DISEASE. BOLSHEVIK POPULARITY WANING. GREAT CHANGE IN PUBLIC SENTIMENT MILAN, August 3. Received August 4, 5.5 p.m, A well-known Pole who has returned from Petrograd and Moscow says that deaths occur frequently in the streets from starvation, while cholera mortality is high owing to the absence of medicines and the frightful general conditions.

Starved horses employed in carrying cholera corpses are constantly falling in the streets, leaving their ghastly burdens long unburied. Between Petrograd and the Finnish border the people lack even bread. Bolshevik excesses are provoking increased popular hostility, and the latest local Soviet elections reveal a great change of sentiment. Wherever a Bolshevik candidate is rejected Lenin has annulled the election. Bolshevik leaders no longer dare organise demonstrations on their own account, while the precautions taken to secure their personal safety exceed anything in the history of the Czars. AMERICAN MISSION TO VLADIVOSTOCK NEW YORK, August 4. Received. August 5, 1 a.m. The American mission to Vladivostock will consist of a few thousand, and will be composed of business men, Red Cross workers, agricultural experts, labour advisers, ami the Y.M.C.A. CZAR’S LAST JOURNEY. A POOR FIGURE. STOCKHOLM, August. 3. Received August 4, 5.5 p.m. Commissary Yakovlev, who carried out the Bolshevik orders to remove the Czar from Tobolsk to Ekaterinburg, describes the incidents of the last journey. He received a vivid impression of the Czar's amazing limitations. The Czarina was altogether different. She was cunning and proud, and exerted a strong influence on her husband. After the family consultations the Czar prepared for the journey. Cavalry escorted the carriages, and large patrols guarded every halt until they entrained at Tumen. The Royalties expected insults, and were much surprised at the correctness of their guards’ behaviour. Yakovlev conversed continually with the Czar, who never mentioned politics or the war. His mind was centred on the narrow domain of the family, the weather, and food. The crowds waiting at Ekaterinburg shouted: “Show us the bloodsucker,” and refused to disperse even on the threat of machine-guns. The train was thereupon shunted to a neighbouring station. THE CZAR’S FAMILY, REMOVAL TO SPAIN PROPOSED. MADRID, August 3. Received August 4, 5.5 p.m. On the initiative of King Alfonso the Foreign Minister has approached Russia with a view to the removal of the widow and children of the ex-Czar to Spain.

THE CZAR’S DIARY. TO BE PUBLISHED SOON. (The Times.) PARIS, August 3. Received August 4, 5.5 p.m. Advices from- Moscow state that the Hr;ce is kept secret. Ten volumes of his diary, covering his youth, and u,, uiu.i uic iiiL-i. uays of his life, have been discovered and will shortly be published.