AWFUL CONDITIONS IN PETROGRAD

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 95, 16 January 1919, Page 5

AWFUL CONDITIONS IN PETROGRAD

POPULACE STARVING AND FREEZING HEAVY MORTALITY By Telegraph—Preaa Association—Copyright (Rec. January 15, 7.10 p.m.) Stockholm, January 13. .' Travellers from Petrograd state that the conditions thero are awful. _ The population is starving and freezing to death en masse.' Tho mortality is so great that the same coffins nre used repeatedly.—Reuter. CONTROL OF TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILWAY UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN JAPAN AND AMERICA. (Rα January 15, 8.45 p.m.) Tokio, January 12. Japan and America have reached an understanding with reference to the control of the Trans-Siberian railway. ■ POLES TO RESisfiE BOLSHEVJKI FOOH ORDERS GERMANS TO PERMIT PASSAGE. . (Rec, January 15, 7.10 p.m.) Amsterdam, January 13.

Warsaw was jubilant on learning that Marshal Foch had ordered the Germans in-Lithuania to permit Polish' troops to pass through in order to resist the Bolsheviki.—Asu.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

ASSISTANCE FOR POLISH TROOPS AMERICA OFFERS TWO • FULL DIVISIONS. (Rec. January 15, 8.45 p.m.) PariSj January 12. America has offered to seudtwo fullsized divisions to Poland to assist the Polish troops in the immediate establishment of a zone from Danzig to Thorn, with the immediate occupation of the Thorn railway Btation, through which Polish and eventually Allied troops and supplies will be enabled to pass without interference.—United Service. ' CLEARING THE BOLSHEVIKI FROM UKRAINE SPLENDID FIGHT BY GENERAL KRASNOFF. (Rec. January 15, 11.30 p.m.) :,'. . London, January 13. The Constantinople correspondent of "The Times" states that the withdrawal of; tho anti-German troops from the Ukraine greatly strengthened the anti-Bolshevik forces in South Russia. General Krasnoff, put up a splendid fight for.many months, though heavily handicapped by shortage of munitions. Ho is now developing a powerful military organisation, supplied from Black Sea ports. The whole region between the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea will soon be in anti-Bolshevik hands. General Krasnoff aims to join the Czeoho-Slovaks and clear out the Ukraine of Bolsheviki.—"The Times."