FIGHTING FOR RUSSIA.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume V, Issue 1427, 9 September 1918, Page 5

FIGHTING FOR RUSSIA.

ALLIES ADVANCE. i (A. A- N.Z. A Reuter) LONDON, Sept. 0. A British North Russian ollicial report states:—Alter severe hand-to-hand fighting on the Archangel front, with the enemy led by the Germans, the Allies occupied Obozerskaya. We inflicted heavy loses on the enemy, but out casualties were light. COMMUNICATION ESTABLISHED. (A. A N.Z.) NEW YORK, Sept. C. Ollicial advices from Peking state, that the telegraph line has been opened between Irkutsk and Peking, via Persia, thus re-establishing communication between Eastern and Western Siberia. GRAVE FEARS. (A. A N.Z.) LONDON, Sept, 7. The “Daily Express” states that grave news of the position of British residents in Russia, received yesterday, t'aused the authorities' great anxiety. The entire colony in Petrograd is under arrest, while the Bolsheviks in Moscow are acting with frenzied hostility to the British and French. Details are lacking, but enough is known fo give rise to the worst fears. AMERICANS ESCAPE. (A. A N.Z.) COPENHAGEN, Sept. V. One hundred and ninety-eight members of the American and Italian Legations and the American bank in Moscow, including seven ladies, have arrived in Sweden. Their arrest was ordered at the same time as the British Legation, but they succeeded in escaping from Moscow to Finland. The Russian Government wired, asking that they should be sent back, but the Finnish Government refused decisively. - . THE EMBASSY AFFAIR. (A. A N.Z.y STOCKHOLM, Sept. 7. Mr George Ransome, the wellknown pro-Bolshevik correspondent of the “Daily News,” writing from Pelrogred, states that the Moscow “Pravda” gives details of the search of the British Embassy, which resulted in the death of Captain Cromie and three searchers. The “Pravda” asserts that forty people were arrested at the Embassy, including Prince Shakovskoi, an extreme Counter-Revolutionary. Mr Ransome says that the Prince’s presence was epute enough to justify the Soviets’ suspicions that some sort of dealings were going on with the Anti-Soviet parties. It is evident that the Soviet secret service had something to go on. Unless carefully handled by both sides, this tragic affair may have a terrible result in mutual reprisals. Mr Ransome pays a tribute to Captain Cromie as one of the most heroic and straighteSt-thinking men he had ever met. DORA KARLAN. (A. A N.Z.) AMSTERDAM. Sept. 7. Dora Karlan, who shot M. Lenin, is dying in a Moscow hospital, in consequence of a mob attempting to lynch her when she was arrested. GENERAL BRUSSILOFF. “The Time*" Scrrice. (Rcc. scpt. 0, 8.50) AMSTERDAM, Sept. 6. The Bolsheviks have released and acquitted General Brussilotf, who was recently arrested on a charge of aiding the counter-revoution. » PEACE TALK. SUGGESTED ARMISTICE. (“The Times") LONDON, Sept. 7. “The ’Limes” correspondent at The Hague stales:—-It is persistently rumoured that the recent meeting at German headquarters, at which the Kaiser and the Emperor Carl were present, decided to propose an armistice :d the end of the present campaigning season, offering the unconditional evacuation and partial indemniliealion of Belgium, and the condition:)! evacuation of the north of France. TURKEY TIRED OF WAR. i Router) AMSTERDAM, S,-pt. S. The Grand Vizier, Talaat Pasha, interviewed by an Austrian paper, said that nothing more could he got from the war, and its continuance was manifestly useless. Peace would tome before winter.