RUSSIAN AFFAIRS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 224, 10 June 1918, Page 5

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS

SITUATION IN PETROGRAD UNCERTAIN

RUPTURE WITH UKRAINE IMMINENT

London, June 7. News from Russia shows that tho jiosition continues to bo ono of tho utmost uncertainty and disorder. The Pctrograd correspondents aro silent, ami notlmifr is known regarding tho food and eoonoiuic situation there, or regarding tho movement of Finnish troops, which are reported to bo moving towards tho capital. German newspapers announce that a rupture of the negotiations between Russia and tho Ukraine ie imminent, as an agreement upon the frontier Question is impossible.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. FOOD SHORTAGE DESPERATE ' GOVERNMENT PROCLAMATION. (Bee. Juno !), 11 p.m.) Copenhagen, Juno 7. Tho "Vonvnorts" publishes the Russian Government's proclamation admitting that tho food situation .is desperate and accusing fha counter-revolutionaries of tlisorgitiiisjiii; tho distribution. The Government threatens (o imprison people retaining grain. It is also arranging searches throughout tho country for concealed slocks of food.—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn. OFFICERS REDUCED TO STARVA- j TION. (Rcc. Juno 9, 11 p.m.) London, Juno 7. Hundreds of Russian ollicers have been reduced to starvation. Somo aro soiling newspapers and matches in the streets — Aus.-N.'/i. Cable Assn. BRUSILOFF CRIPPLED AM) POV-ERTY-STRICKEN. (Rec. Juno 9, 11 p.m.) Paris, June 7. Germa-n paper 3 state that General Brusiloff was recently -wounded in the leg in Moscow, when fighting with the Bolshoviki. Ho is living on charity in great poverty. His leg has beon iJiipututed,— Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn. GERMANY ANXIOUS TO TRADE PORT OF CONSTANZA OPEN. Moscow, June C. Germany has informed the Naval authorities that tho Rumanian port of Constanza, on the Dobruja coast of tho Black Sea, is now opon, and offers coal and agricultural implements in ,cxchango for cereals, oil, and provisions.—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn, BOLSHEVIK FORCES IN SIBERIA CONCENTRATING AGAINST SEMINOFF. (Rec. .Tune 9, 11.-10 p.m.) London, Juine 7. A Harbin correspondent states that the Bolshevik forces aro concentrating against General Sominoff, including M'UU Austrians ami Germans. Tho Bei'lin Press urges' intervention in Siberia—Renter. MOBILISATION IN THE CAUCASUS ,' Moscow, June G.The Caucasian Committees aro mobilising all men between tho ages of:' nineteen and forty-two. Detachments aro already concentrating in the Tidis aroa. The German occupation of tho Ukraino continues, cscecially in tho north and cast.—Aus.-N.Z, Cable Assn. THE GERMAN HAND IN FINLAND ARMY BEING REORGANISED BY GERMAN OFFICERS, (Rec. Juno 9, 5.5 p.m.) Juno 7. Tho "Lokal Anzeiger" denies that the German agreement with Finland means tho establishment of a monarchy and tho placing of tho Finnish Army under German officers. Meanwhile a German, Colonel Rederm, has been appointed Chief of Staff, and has begun lo organise tho Finnisli Army under Gorman instructors. General Maimorhoim has been pensioned, and-his treatment is causing much ill-feeling. Many oppose tho . monarchy,' dreading subjection to a German, prince. They say: "If wo must havo a king, let it be General Mannerheim. hot a German junker."-"The Times." : -