RUSSIA.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVII, Issue 1658991, 18 July 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

■'•■' B ' •■■ AMERICA. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) ) Received 8.25 p.m , July 17th. WASHINGTON, July ISThe Russian Embassy made a statement that the Moscow uprising has been crushed by a combination of German and Bolshevik arms. It was a manifestation of Russian national feelmg, which the Germans and Bolshevik will crush unless Allied aid is sent. The Embassy declared that the crushing of the Moecow uprising endangers tho ent'ro Czecho-S'orak revolt. In reference to Mi j bach's machinations the statement declares that "ho entertained most cordial relations with the Bolsheviks, and flooded the country with deliberate misinformation, -va.i simultaneously attempted to induce thj moderates to accept German military help to overthrow the and promised reconsideration of the Brest litovek treaty." COMPLICATED PROPOSALS. OF CZECHO SLOVAEiS. i PEKIN, July IC. ! As tho result ol a friendly conference M. Horvat agreed to facilitite '.lie advance of the Cleoho-SJovaks to Ba'-kal, via the Chinese eastern rail', way, with a view to ultimate co-opera-tion with their compatriots at Irkuss!--. It is expected that Austrian war prisoners from Serbia will join the Czechs and largely increase the main fighting force. The "Times" says that a trustworfchily estimate makes eighty, thousand vKecho-Slovaks in Siberia and thirty thousand in European Russia. Th'sy intend to reach the French front via Vladivostok.