RUSSIAN SITUATION

Waikato Times, Volume 90, Issue 14052, 3 May 1919, Page 5

RUSSIAN SITUATION

j ALLIED POSITIONS STRONG. NO NEED FOR-.ANXIETY. (•Australian and N.Z. Gable Assn.) , Received April 3, 12.15 a.m. HELSINGFORS, May 1. The Allied position at Archangel is strong, and anxiety is not warranted,. The Murman position is firm as a rock. SL'FFiC:ENT REINFORCEMENTS : EN ROUTE. TO FORCE AN EARLY DECISION. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received May 3, 12.45 a.m. LONDON, May 2. The British Governor at Archangel believes that with the reinforcements | now en route a decision wiJI be forced this summer.. The Russians will soon. ; clear the Bolshevists out if the! Allies insist on tlie capture of Moscow' and Petrograd. ADMfHAi. KOLCHAiC'S ADVANCE. 190 MILES IN FIVE WEEKS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received May 3, 1.30 a.m.LONDON, April 22 (delayed). A Russian Bolshevist communique relative to the fighting against the Siber- • ians shows Admiral Kolchak in five weeks advanced 190 miles, and is now within 100 miles of the Volga. He has captured the important town of Saraquel. LENIN'S POLICY. DESTROYING THE POWER OF . MONEY. VAST AGRICULTURAL SCHEME. TO DEVELOP RUSSIA'S RESOURCES. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received May 3, 11.45 a.m. LONDON, May 30. A Geneva message states that Lenin, in an interview, stated that he is seeking to annihilate the power of money in the world; hence hundreds of thousands of rouble notes are being issued daily from the Bolshevik Treasury, with the deliberate intention of destroying the value of money. He adds:-As it is impossible to root out capitalism by confiscation, we are flooding the country with notes withouf financial guarantees of any sort." Lenin is also entertaining vast agricultural schemes under the influence of Confucius, whom he is studying, based on the manufacture of a great quantity ' of scientific agricultural machinery and~' implements, with which he intends to develop Russian resources with the ut-r most rapidity.