KRYLENKO RESIGNS COMMAND IN PETROGRAD.

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 146, 9 March 1918, Page 7

KRYLENKO RESIGNS COMMAND IN PETROGRAD.

(Re'c. March 8, 7.20 p.m.) «.„„„,,- T ill , , Pctrograd, March 7. broneral Krylenko has resigned the command of the city.-Reuter. STUDENTS SHOT FOE CONSPIRING AGAINST THE BOLHHEVIKI. e . n . , , . ,\ , , Petrograd, March 7. rt.„ vi P ,s .?'. an students hire been shot for aiding a conspiracy to overthrow trie fiolsheviki.—Atis. r N.Z. Cable Assn. GERMANS IMPRESSING RUSSIANS FOR SERVICE ON THE WEST FRONT w e u i , r < , Petrograd, March 7. _ Refugees say that the Germans are endeavouring to form a. corps of Russians to reinforce the Germans on the West front. The Russians are threatened with death if they do not join.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.TWO HUNDRED RUSSIAN CITIZENS EXECUTED BY GERMANS. „ , , , _ Petrograd, March 7. v . I^,R ees 6a y . tllat t!l6 Germans shot and hanged 200 Russian citizens at lunefr (Dorpat, m Livonia).—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. THE GERMAN TROOPS IN THE WEST A MILLION LESS THAN IN 1914, AND OF INFERIOR QUALITY ESTIMATE OF GERMAN WAR LOSSES ■ (Rec. March 8, 7.20 p.m.) M ,Sf el F<^ er > akadine Swiss military critic, as the result of'exhaust'ive calculations, .claims that, despito the reinforcements-from Russia, the German troops in the West are over a million -below the number there in .1914, and the quality is inferior He estimates that 2,600,000 Germans are dead, 5W,000 arc prisoners of war, and 2,500,000 are incapacitated.-Tlnited Service. ARTILLERY ACTIVE ON BRITISH AND FRENCH FRONTS c; tv i n< • . ■„„., : ■' -- London, March 7. ~,f lr Douglas Kaig reports:.."There is considerate activity hy the enemy artillery in theNeuve-Chapelle sector."-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-Reu.ter. ; (Rec. March 8, 7.20 p.m.) ■',' i -p ■ L "" • '~-,., London, March 7. Aiirenoh communique reports fairly violent bombardments in the various seotors.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-Reuter. « ' AMERICANS HOLDING EIGHT MILES: OF TRENCHES ti, a • i. u • ii"m r , , Washington,. March 7. ihe Americans hold eight miles of trenches on the French front.—Reuter.