RUSSIAN AFFAIRS

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16422, 16 January 1919, Page 7

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS

CONDITIONS IN CAPITAL. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright) {Reutcr'a TelegTami.) (Received January 15th. 7.10 p.m.) STOCKHOLM, January 13. Travellers from Petrograd state that conditions there are awful. The population is starving and freezing to death en masse. The mortality is so great that the same. coffins are used repeatedly. FREEING THE UKRAINE. ("Th« Times.") (Received January 15th, 11.30 p.m.) LONDON. January 13. The Constantinople correspondent of "The Times" etates that the withdrawal of anti-German troops from the TJkraino has greatly strengthened the anti-Bolshevist forces in South Russia. General Krasnoff has put up a splendid fight for many months, though he has been heavily handicapped by the shortago of munitions. Ho is now developing a powerful military organisation, supplied from Black Sea ports. The whole region between the Caspian and the Black Sea will soon be in anti-Bol-shevist hands. General Krasnoff aims to join the Czecho-Slovaks and clear out tho Ukraine of Bolshevists. TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILWAY. (Reuter'a Telegrams.) (Received January 15th, 7.55 p.m.) TOKIO, Jaanuary 12. Japan and America have reached an understanding in reference to control of the trans-Siberian railway.