RUSSIAN AFFAIRS

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16430, 25 January 1919, Page 9

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS

FINANCIAL CHAOS. (By Cable.—Prew Aeeociation.—Copyright.! ] (Australian and N. 2. Cable Aaaociation.) \ PETROGRAD, January 21. Tlie Moscow Government's /Budgew shows an enormous increase in expen-j dituro for the second half of the year; • 1913, duo to the war. The revenue, I i principally derived from the heavy proi perty and income tax, showed a neavy , fall towards the end of the year. The Financo Commissary anticipates little ] 1 revenue from this source in 1919. SURRENDER OF PETROGRAD. LONDON, January 22. \ Trotsky has ordered the surrender of Petrograd if the northern Russian > . forces should attack the city. \ FLIGHT OF LITHUANIANS. 1 COPENHAGEN, January 21. The majority of the Lithuanian Cabi- ; net have fled to Libau owing to the i Bolshevist advance, which has reached. Bornholm. AN ADVANCE ON GERMANY. (Hauler's Telegrams.) (Received January 25th. 1.20 turn.) AMSTERDAM, January 22. The report that an army of 1,000,0001' I Bolshevists is marching upon Germany i jb exaggerated. Not more than 50,000 have crossed the line Riga-Dvinsk-Vilna. BOLSHEVIST PLANS. (Australian and N.Z. GafcLo LONDON, January 22. The most recent information from Russia indicates that the Bolshevists' plans are complete for the extension of their propaganda eastwards. Thoy anticipate that India, China, and Southern Asia will fall an easy prqy, bu£ General Koltchak's Omsk army tcm- • porarily puts off their advance. Interventionists urge that prompt support should bo sent to strengthen this hairier. Reports from tho Crimea state thaC; Bolshevism is spreading in the Ukraine*! and only prompt intervention will prevent the wholo of the Black Sea littoralfrom falling into the Bolshevists' hands.i