RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 December 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

HE RUSSIAN SITUATION.

GMJBINC GEEAT ANXIETY SUB BLOODTHIRSTY BOLSHEVIKS. WHOLESALE MASSAO&Ka. Received Dec. 21, 1 am. London, Dec. 19. OenexftlMiller, a Russian general, formerly commander of an army corps ui Bnkuwhtl, luu left London for Areli*Bg»-> t» Uk» eonwuul of tbe Huuiac Amy. now forming in Noitbern Russia A correspondent of the Daily Chronicle talk attention to the situation in ihuaia, which is causing great anxiety in official circles in Britaie. Little recent MV« is available, but of ail •laises except Bolsheviks are irequentiArgc number of people have been arXMM, aai U» prisons are crowded under appalling conditions, prisoners having no medical attenticn, while sanitation ii non-existent.

During a general massacre of the bourgeois# on September 6 it u uao:Ecmily were kilkid, but prob»Wy may jam perished. Tie people aire compelled to adhere to tia Bolgbo*ik regime or starve. Thonunds of officers are serving in the Bolshevik as on alternative to starvation.

Tie story of a Bolshevik army of three millions is discredited. There is • of an attempt to increase too farce with a view to the invasion of. other parts of Europe in order to, •pwitl Bokhevik principles, constituting • wager comparable with the invasions ti Genghis Khan and Tamerlane.

BRITISH FLEETS ACTION. Spsera bolsheviks' plans fettfrei Dec. 20, 55 p.m. _ _ StneWiolra, Dec. 18. »et; r n of the British Sett at' Bwt greatly upset Bolshevik circles in Who are secretly preparing for ttt waiaation of Petroprad and MoaBwring the capital to Novgorod. ttn British fleet is expected shortly ftt H*l«ingfci|»,—Alls; 2T.Z. Cable AsMntiofe THE BRITISH FORCES. fftsp iousms EXPLANATION. London, Dec. 19. Bie Press Bureau states that Lord Milne, replying to a . correspondent, •t*t« that the Allied forces, of which BdWt are only a small proportion, atv If Russia because the Bolsheviks ■too assisting our 'memies in every poi•ibla way. - Tho /Bolsheviks' action rekotaal Jumdreds of thousands of Ger- j forth* west front and caused RouJWtfa bt fall into German hands: they kac4%d9Ver the Black Sea fleet to the Owtsaarf and treacherously attacked the C*d>o-RktvaJcs, who were endeavoring to have Itaaaia to light for their own •rtmtiy'i freedom. Furthermore, it ro ■awwary to protect the vast quantity of Allkli military (tors* at Archangel ud Vtadivo.Ttock. Lard Milner continued: The intervention proved saeeemful; the Czechoslovaks were saved, the resources of State and sooth-entera Russia were denied to the enemy, and the northern porta of European Russia, prevented from becoming Genua submarine bases fapßl which the North Sea borage couid litre been tamed. Tbeee 'important achievements contributed materially to deUdt. In the course of the Allied intervention thousands of Russian} fought on the aide of. the Allies. It would be an ■twiluMfc betrayal to leave them to the tender mercies of tfcair and our enemies, because our own immediate yorp9M* tod teen served- The GovernMtßt did not desire to leave British troop* ia Russia a day longer than * necessary to discharge its moral obligations, wMdi it also believed to he t'i-" guidbig principle of all the Allies. Personally, Lord Milner thought the time was not necessarily distant when a withdrawal -would be possible without dbaptnxu consequences. If the Allies ■cranbfed out of Russia immediately, the barbarism, which at present reigned ill S part of the country only, would almost certainly spread to the whole. The nltimate consequences of such a disaster could not be foreseen, but assuredly they would involve a far greater strata pa the resources of the British Empire than the present omaituiiuiti. •—Aw. HZ. Assoc.

BOLSHEVIKS AND CHINESE. JOLLOGTOG IN WAKK OF GESMAXS. SBJZISH FLEET REGARDED Ali SAViouas. Bwinrcd Dec. 31,1,20 a m. London, Dec. 18. the (itnation in Eithonia is declared Jt bo critical. The Russian Bolsheviks ■fa following the German withdrawal aad plundering as they advance. These marauders are followed by a crowd of Chinese armed with knives and axes, who entered Russia in lOlfi .and are now following the Bolshevik armies everywhere- ' The only'hope for the inhabitants appears to ipriog from the pressure of the British squadron at leva), where tha local Bolsheviks are very active buying anas and a*nmu/iition from Gtrman ioldiers. The Genaaa* an spreading reports that the Bnjriisb are coming to take posses* ion of the Baltic province#, residents are reported as regarding the English as their a&vioure from anarchy.—United Service.