GERMANS ADVANCING THROUGH RUSSIA

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 158, 23 March 1918, Page 7

GERMANS ADVANCING THROUGH RUSSIA

SWEEPING MOVEMENTS TOWARDS MOSCOW Ck — PEACE TREATY REPUDIATED BY THE RUSSIAN CHURCH Petrograd, March 21. In spite of the so-called peace, the Gormans are speedily advancing in South Russia. They occupied Nikolaielf without resistance. There are indications that the Germans to the northward have regrouped their forces, preparatory to an active policy. Enemy troops have reached the outskirts of Kharkoff, and other detachments are approaching the railway between Petrograd and Moscow, apparently aiming at Moscow by- sweeping movements from north and south. The Government is prepared to leave Moscow if it is seriously threatened. It is confirmed that Entente and neutral shipping in Odessa escaped to Sebastopol, but tho German booty at Odessa is estimated at 150 million roubles (nearly £16,000,000). The Russian Church has repudiated the peace treaty.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

RUSSIAN FLEET AT ODESSA ESCAPED. Washington, March 21. The State Department has received advices from the American Consul at Moscow that the Russian fleet at Odessa has escaped to Sebastopol.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. HERR BALLIN TO HASTEN THE RESUMPTION. ..OF COMMER-

CIAL RELATIONS.

Petrograd, March 21. It is reported that Herr Ballin is coming; to Petrograd to hasten the resumption of Russian and German commercial relations. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

AUSTRIA'S TERRITORIAL DEMANDS UPON RUMANIA

Zurich, March 21. territorial demands upon Rumania total seven thousand squaro miles, including the Vulcan Pass and the Porta Orientala. (Eastern Door) of the Iron Gates. Count Czernin demanded a strip twenty miles wide from Oona northward for 140 miles, and proposed to compensate Rumania for the loss of this territory and the Dobruja by giving her the Bessarabian territory westward of the Dniester.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

RUMANIA'S NEW CABINET STRONGLY PRO-GERMAN,

(Ree. March 22, 10.15 p.m.) ■ i Amstordam, March 21. M. Marghiloman . has been appointed Premier of Rumania. It is reported that the Cabinet is strongly pro-German.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable-Assn... [31. 3larghiloman, who is the leader or the Conservatives, refused to join the Coalition 'Ministry when Rumania entered the war.]

THE GERMAN MENACE IN THE FAR EAST

"JAPANESE WARNING TO CHINA,

, ■ Toklo, March 21. Japan has warned China to end internal strife, and assist Japan in meeting tlio German menace in the Far East. . Officials deny that Japanese troops have landed at Vladivostok.—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn. ,

EASTERN AMBASSADORS FROM PETROGRAD REACH

TIENTSIN.

Tientsin, March 21. The Japanese and Chinese Ambassadors from Petrograd have arrived here.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn,