AT WAR WITH THE BOILSHEVIKI

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 130, 19 February 1918, Page 5

AT WAR WITH THE BOILSHEVIKI

GERMAN ARMISTICE ENDED

HEAVY FIGHTING IN THE ' UKRAINE

GENERALS AND POLITICIANS

ACUTE CRISIS THREATENED

News from Petrograd, over* which centre of Bolshevik authority a veil has-been dropped since February 6, discloses a condition of frightful anarchy. Law and ordiiv seem to have departed entirely, and armed bands are committing the worst excesses. The .Ukraine region is the centre of heavy fighting, in which General Alexieff's name is mentioned as leader of a forco winch has won a battle. In Kieff a fierce struggle is being waged betwe'en the Red and the White Guards. The German Government is reported- to have renewed hostilities with Bolshevik Russia, the armistice halving ended, and also to be considering the question of restoring ths JB'altic provinces from the anarchistic elements which are reducing;, the country to chaos. There are no material developments on the Western front beyond trench and air raids. Another air raid on Lon.l'on is in progress, but there are. no details. The crisis between the British Government and Sir William Robertson is stated to have bee'ii followed by the threatened resignations of several generals, in eluding General Plumer, the hero of Messines. Newspaper comment, howejver, agrees that^whatever happens the course of the war will not bev affected.