FRIGHTFULNESS IN THE UKRAINE

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 218, 3 June 1918, Page 5

FRIGHTFULNESS IN THE UKRAINE

POISON GAS TO COW THE VILLAGERS London, May 31. The Potrograd correspondent of the "Daily Express" states that, augered by tho resistance of the Ukraine peasantry, tho Germans released poison gas in several villages, and large numbers of people wero asphyxiated.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. PEASANTS DESTROYING THE CHOPS. (Rec. Juno 2, 11 p.m.) Amsterdam, June 2. The Ukralno peasants are cutting down Tnat areas of green crops'to prevent tho harvest reaching Germany. Herr Erzbcrgcr, writing in tho "Vossischo Zeitung," states that exasperation against (lie Germans is increasing throughout the Ukraine. The railway workers are plan-

ning a. general strike, and tho peasants are .refusing to deliver grain. No German soldier dare appear in Kicff unarmed. Some have already been shot down—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn.

RUSSIA MAY YET PLAY HER PART REORGANISATION OF FORCES IN PROGRESS. (Rec. June 2, 5,5 p.m.) London, May 31. The "Morning Post" Potrograd correspondent states that although the White Guards, who are tho German advance guards, are reported at a frontier station a score of miles away, Potrograd reraains quiet. I must not any overmuch about political reconstruction, but the power which rules Russia has quietly begun, and has already mado progress with the reorganisation of the fighting force. Generals of known capacity havo ueen appointed to command districts ■iito which (he country has been divided. Tho commanding general appoints bis lommanders, and so on down to tho lanks. Only long-service soldiers known to their officers are admitted to the tanks. Thus the nucleus of an absolutely trustworthy fighting force of half a million men is already forming, or [jorhnps- has been formed—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. "SILVER LINING IN THE CLOUDS." (Rec. June 2, 5.5 p.m.) London, May 31. The "Daily Express" leti'ograd correspondent advises England "to watch for *hc silver lining in the cloud." He asserts that tho Bolshevik Fabian tactics ere already enticing Germany into the quagmire, and adds: "Aitliongh Russia in a military sense is out of the war, she is still playing a part." Ho emphasises Germany's trouble in dealing with tho irreconcilable peasantry and mutinous spirit of the Polish troops.—.lus.-jJ.Z. Cable Assn. germans"atkronstadt (Kec. June 2, 11 p.m.) Petrograd, Juno 1. The "Pravda" states that the Germans .havo occupied certain of tho Kronstadt forts.—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn. AUSTRIA SMS PEACE WITH FINLAND Amsterdam, May 31. Austria and Finland havo signed a treaty of peace.—Router.