RUSSIA.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVII, Issue 16525, 22 April 1918, Page 11

RUSSIA.

BOLSHEVIKI IN THE EAST. 'Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. HARBIN, April 19. The Bosheviki seat an ultimatum to the Chinese authorities at Wanria .station demanding the immediate delivery of the Cossack General Semonoff and the disarmament of his forces. The Chinese refused and the Bolshevist bombarded the' Manchurian station. It is reported that the Bolsheviki are. concentrating a, force at Vlorairechta bint-ion near Vladivostok.

GERMAN SOLDIERS COMPLAINED OPn

. WASHINGTON, April 19. Tho State Department received an intercepted -wireless from the Bolshevik Commissionary of Foreign Affairs to lierlin. complaining that German soldiers arc burning Russian villages, and committing other atrocities.

GERMAN PRISONERS PERVERTED.

LONDON, April 20. A wireless German message states that in f view of reports of the formation of revolutionary committees among •.var prisoners i n camps in Russia, not! ably ab Omsk, • Tomsk and Ekaterinburg, aiming a* equality of officers and men and prevention of the repatriation of prisoners, the German Government demands that tho Russian Government; s-hall immediately disarm, prisoners and take over the management of all campß, pending the arrival of a German Commission. It demands also the separation of German from Austro-Hungarian prisoners, the reinstatement of officers, and the Russian occupation of the railway station at Omsk, in order to secure free passage for prisoners from Siberia,

I GERMANS TOWARDS ODESSA. -Admiralty.—Per Wireless Press. German official. —Wo have occupied T&ckaplinka and Meletipal in Taurida (north of Odessa). MORE RESERVES TOR THE ENEMY. Received 11.10 p.m., April 20. A Russian wireless message to the German Foreign Office states that measures are being taken for a speedy evacuation of Geiman war prisoners from eastern Siberia. ■ I