RUSSIAN AFFAIRS

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16425, 20 January 1919, Page 7

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS

DISORDER IN CAPITAL

(By Cable.—Press Association.— Copyright.) (Australian N.Z. Cable Association.) NEW YORK. January 17. It is reported that" a counterrevolution has btarted in Petrograd. PRZEMYSL AGAIN. BERNE, January 15. It is reported that- the Ukrainians bombatded Przemysl for several days, from the land and air. Tho situation is terrible. There have been 2000 deaths, and the city is foodless and liglitloss. TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILWAY. LONDON, January-18. The Trans-Siberian railway will be worked by Japan and America under a Board of inter-Allied nations. FAMINE IN PETROGRAD. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received January 19th, 11.45 p.m.) STOCKHOLM, January 15. Tho "Aftonblad's" Helsingfors correspondent states that there are serioiiß hunger riots at Potrograd.- The streets are crowded with people shouting for bread. The Bolshevists, chiefly Letts and Chinese, aro firing on tho crowds. Some starving people aro begging to be shot. Tho whole city is without bread. BOLSHEVISTS ENTER MITAU. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) s (Received January 20th. 12.30 a.m.) January 16. Bolshevists have entered Mitau. TO CRUSH BOLSHEVISM. RUSSIANS UNITING. (Renter's Telegram*.) (Received January 20th, 12.30 a.m.) LONDON, January 17. The Russian delegation was sympathetically received in .political and Government quarters. For the first time leading Russians of every shade of opinion in Groat Britain, France, and Russia, excepting the extreme right and left wings, have sunk • their political differences in a patriotic determination to exterminate Bolshevism, and enable Russia_ to express its free will.

* The demands of tho delegation are for an Allied pronouncement in favour of plating Bolshevism outsido the palo of society, material assistance to ami the Russian armies of 250,000, under General Kalchank, and a similar number under General Denikin, ani the sending of a small Allied detachment from the Black Sea to the Ukraine to maintain order while the crops are being sown. It is anticipated that when the armies of Generals Kalchank and Denikin junction, the collapse of Bolshevism must speedily follow.

An instance of Bolshevist terrorism is supplied nt Riga. When the British gunfire wrecked an important bridge, the Bolshevists seizod sixty near-by residents, cut off their noses and ears, and left them dying in the snow, where they woro found by the British landing party. TROOPS WITHDRAWN. c"Tho Times.") (Received January 20th, 12.30 a.m.) TOKIO, January 17. Japan has withdrawn half of the sixty thousand troops sent to Siberia. The remainder are merely maintaining communications.