RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 February 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA.

BOLSHEVKS AND ENTENTE. READY TO REACH AN AGREEMENT. Received Feb. 0, 9.35 p.m. London, Feb. 5. A Russian wireless acknowledges the Entente's suggestion that the Bolsheviks should confer at Prinkipo. They have not received a formal invitation, but are ready for all measures to reach an agreement with the Entente.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc. THE FATE OF THE ROMANOFFS. FURTHER DETAILS; Received Feb. 6, 8.15 p.m. Paris, Feb. 4. Details of the story of the murder of the ex-Czar and family state that the Czarevitch was ill, and scarcely conscious of what was occurring. He looked like an imbecile while his mother and sisters were being killed. Altogether sixteen Romn'-MTs have been murdered, the last being the Grand Dukes Nicholas and George. The latter was never connected with poht:'cs, and only desired to return to London to see his wife and daughters.— und N.Z. Cable Assoc. LENIN'S APPEAL. A CHINESE BOLSHEVIK KILLED. Received Feb. 7, 1 a.m. Stockholm, Feb. 4. Petrograd papers publish an exliortation by Lenin to all Bolahevista in Germany, Austria, Poland and the Baltic provinces of Finland, and convokes a great communist conference. The head of the Chinese Bolsheviks at Petrograd, who exercised a dictatorship t'Vai the Chinese in Russia, anl was guilty of many cruel acts, has been muruered. Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc. A BOLSHEVIK SUCCESS. London, Feb. 4. A Russian wireless message states that the Soviet cavalry occupied Fontinka near the mouth of the Narva. RUSSIAN GRAND DUKE ESCAPES. Paris, Feb. 4. The Czar's uncle, the Grand Duke Alexander, has arrived from the Crimea, where he had taken refuge since the Russian revolution in March, 1917. He lived in a small country house with the Grand Duke Nicholas, the Dowager Empress, the Grand Duchess Xenia and her daughters. They dragged out a miserable _existence, nightly in fear of assassination by the soldiers. They always slept in their clothes. The Soviet fled when the Germans occupied the Crimea in April last. The Allied fleet arrived at the end of November and rescued the royalties. The Grand Duke added that France must save Russia from her tyrants. Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.