THE RUSSIAN SITUATION

Wanganui Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15531, 19 June 1918, Page 5

THE RUSSIAN SITUATION

ANOTHER GERMAN OFFENSIVE. Australian and NZ Cable Association LONDON, June 17. Wireless Russian official.—M. Tciitcherf announces that the military authorities in the Voronezh region report that the German command proposed a new boundary. Negotiations thereon with the Russian command have not resulted in an agreement. RUSSIAN EFFORT AT RESISTANCE. LONDON, June 17. Juveneff has issued a proclamation addressed to all, on behalf of the people’s commissariat of war. ordering the mobilisation of peasants (born l>etwcen IS'i.’J and 181)7 inclusive), who are not employing others, residing in fifty-one specified districts of twelve provinces and territories. Siberian, Orenburg and Cossack troops are accepted. The men are to remain on active service for six months, and to be fed and clothed and paid the terms given the Red Army, SOVIETS AND SOCIALISTS. LONDON, June 81. The Press Bureau states; A Russian wireless says: The All-Russian Central Executive passed a resolution on June 14-th which declares that it is being attached by international imperialism on all fronts and the coadjutors thereof. Russia therefore expels from the committee representatives of Revolutionary Socialists, also the Right and Centre and Mannhoviks, and recommends their expulsion from local Soviets, because they organised an armed revolt in conjunction with Kaledin and Korniloff in the Don; Dutoff, in the Urals; Sejoff, Khoevat and Koltchak, in Siberia ; and lately the Czecho-Slovaks and Bijnkhand. MOSCOW, June 17. M. Vulens, the French Ambassador, has arrived. The German propagandists had reported that he would be recalled.