AID FOR THE RUSSIANS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 71, 18 December 1918, Page 5

AID FOR THE RUSSIANS

AMERICAN FLANS

BIG SHIPMENTS OP COM- ! MODITIES I New York, December 14. j The Washington correspondent of th( New York "Times" states that the Wai Trade Board has made a definite plat to reopen trade i-elatioiis on a large scal( with the parts of Russia and which are not controlled by German in] terestsiond the Bolsheviks. Material aic will be extended to the Czecho-Slovake, 'I'he plans provide for the exportation oj not less than. 200,000 tons of commodities, and Russia will be permitted to ehif goods'to the United States, in order t< pay for the commodities received.—Aus.' N.'Z, Cable Assn. , j

IN SIBERIA • j HIYAL LEADERS BECONCILBD. j (Rec. December 18, 1.25 a.m.) ! New York, December 16. i Dispatches from Vladivostok soy thai His differences between Semenoff anc Kolchnk are being adjusted through th^ efforts of Franco-British officials. —Aus.j N.Z. Cable Assn. •. . j

FIGHTINGJNJALICIA j UKRAINIANS ATTACKING j I'RZEMSYL;--Copenhagen, December 16, i Ukrainian troops have surrounded Przemysl on three sides, and access Can only be obtained by. the lailwcj west of the city.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.j

BACK TO THE MIDDLE AGES i j BARONIAL WARFARE IN' POLAND.! London, December lfi. j An English correspondent in Craco« Bays that Poland is slipping back to the Middle Aces. Property-owners, like th« medieval barons, raise their own troopf to resist the bands of pillagers, incendiarists, and murderers A vast number ol houses have withstood siege by the Bolshiviki. The Bolshevilti gutted Count .Potocki's chateau in Russian-Poland, anil it is reported that a hundred were killed in the fight.—Aus.-N.Z.. Cable Assn. •;

: CRISIS IN UKRAINIA... i i KIEFF OCCUPIED BY THE GER- ! MANS. ' ~ (Rec. December 17, 7.25 p.m.) ' Amsterdam, December 16. i ■Advices from Ki'eft" state that counter revohitioiinry troops, co-operating with, the Germane, occupied tha. town, where; upon the Hetman abdicated and Cabinet resigned.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-Reuter. POLES BREAK WITH. GERMANY-! (Rec. December 17, 7.25 p.m.) ; Berlin, December. 16. : Poland has severed relations with Germany on tho grounds that the Germans are co-operating with tho Bolsheviki against tho Poles.-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn;-Reuter. . '■ : !