RUSSIA.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16547, 23 September 1919, Page 3

RUSSIA.

THE BALTIC PROVINCES. CONFERENCE WITH BOLSHEVIKS By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. (Received Sept. 23, 9.5 a.m.) HELSINGFORS, Sept. 21. It was decided at the Pskoff Conference that the Ethoniau, Latvian, and Lithuanian delegates should meet the Bolshevik delegates at Yuriev in a fortnight to discuss pcace._ It is likely Finland may be forced to join, and tints the entire western anti-Bolshevik policy will collapse, leaving a neutral zone where Germany may secure a predominant influence in tho Baltic. SKETCH OF THE TERMS. (RecelvcfT Sept. 23, 9.5 a.m.) COPENHAGEN, Sept. 21. The Lettish Information Bureau says that the armislico conditions to ho presented to tho Russian Soviet by tho throe Baltic States include the regulation of frontier on an ethnographic basis, and the creation of a neutral zone where a neutral Power will maintain order. Tho terms also provide for the surrender of the Bolshevist Hoot to a neutral Power.—Reuter. CONDITIONS IN PETROGRAD. A DOLEFUL PICTURE. Received Sept. 23, 9.15 a.m.) LONDON. Sept. 21. The Helsingfors correspondent of The Times telegraphs the statement of an Englishman, named Paul Dukes, who escaped from Pctrograd on September 2. There was then only a fortnight’s supply of fuel and no hope of more. Ho says a ghastly catastrophe is inevitable. Wooden houses have been demolished for fuel. Dukes gives awful details of the torturing ami executions. The harvest was magnificent but idle scantiest supply survived the plunderers. A railway truck of flour is worth five million roubles. The population, which now totals 350,000 must perish from t-jld and famine.—Times. THE CZECHO-SLOVAKS. TO BE REPATRIATED. (Received Sept. 23, 9.15 a.m.) PARIS, Sent. 22. The Supreme Council has decided to repatriate the C/ocho-Slovaks 'tom Siberia immediatelyAus.-N .Z. Gable Assn. BOLSHEVIK REPORTS. THAT DENIKIN NOW SUPREME. (Received Sept. 23, 11.25 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 23. Tho Bolsheviks admit the abandonment of Kursk and also report that Admiral Koltchak has informed the Allies that ho has relinquished the title of chief ruler in favour of General Deni-kin.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.