AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 166, 3 April 1918, Page 6

AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA

FINANCIAL SITUATION VERY GRAVE

; VAST AMOUNT OF PAPER ! MONEY ISSUED : ' ~ . Petrograd, April 1. ine financial situation is very grave. The Government is printing over three - thousand millions of paper mousy I monthly to cover expenses. It has also resolved to increase direct and in- ■ direct taxatiou.—Aus,-N.Z. Cable Assn. : ? THE UKRA®s" WHEAT ! ■ , none obtainable by central [ POWERS. ! . , . Borne, April 1. . Austrian newspapers state that a \, hundred wagon-loads of wheat have <. been sept to revictual the Austrian troops in, the Ukraine, where grain j was unobtainable, completely falsifying ; , the hopes of the Central Powers. I —Aus.- [/,- IS.ZI. Cable Assn. j-I EX-TSAR AND FAMILY AT TOBOLSK' K SUFFERING FROM THE EXTREME . ■ COLD. ! ■■■',( London, April I. | Petjrograd correspondent of the ; 'Daily Express" says " tlie coldness of' : the wooden palace at Tobolsk is so I groat that- the ox-Tsar and his family I are often forced, to to the servants' I !S , during the Arctic-like evenings. ' . ■ lne palace is lighted with smoky petrol . lamps. The only water is from a well, and the members of the Imperial j family'are-forced to use the public ;"■ baths, from which the peasantry. aro excluded during their morning .abluj,. tions. The ex-Tsar is daily growin» r moro morose, but his wife is seeking to | /keep , U P the family spirits. Alexis is ; ' buffering severely from the cold, and | spends most of the time in bed.—Aus.f. , ri./i. Cable Assn. [ ;■ RUSSO-RUMANIAN TREATY ' . RUMANIAN TROOPS TO EVACUj ATE BESSARABIA. I T , • . Moscow, April 1. j. . It is* officially stated that a Russo- !. Rumanian treaty regarding Bessarabia v provides that the Rumanian troops, exI ; cc P t thousand to guard the railj\ ' tvays, will evacuaxa Bessarabia within - two months. f Rumania will neither l *? ko *°. r as s*st all y offensive against . . the. Soviets.—Reuter. j CAPTURE OF IRKUTSK REPORTED nil IIT „ Washington, April 1. lne War Department says that a re- ; port has been received that Irkutsk (in : Siberia) has been captured, but it is unofficial. Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. , PERSIA MAY JOIN CENTRAL i : POWERS ' ! New York, April 1. ] , An official summary on the situation , states that the news ?s current in Te* i . heran .that Persia may join the "Central! r ; Powers.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. J