A REMARKABLE PLOT.
TO CAPTURE KOUMANIA
i HOW IT FAILED
Received, this day at 8.45 a.m. PETROGRAD January 19
A remarkable plot has been revealed as the result of the Dianmandy incident Recently the Bolsheviks without the slightest provocation sent troops to Jassy, under the lcadersip of Rakow. sky, a reactionary Bulgarian, "lith instructions t° arrest or murder reheibatchcff, seize Royalties and members of the Government. Tcherbatcheff was forewarned and captured and interned the ringleaders including Rochal, a student, the instigator of hhe Kronstadt mutiny. Ho then secured the co-operation of t.ho Roumanian Army, wliioh disarmed 15, 000 Bolshevik irregulars. Whole Roumanian divisions are now employed eliasing Russian units, who deserted from the front, and who 'are looting and burning Roumanian villages. The Royalties remain at Jassy, practic-. ally cut off from the outer world, and are sharing the pcop]c’s hardships. They have lived for months entirely on tinned goods and bread thrice, weekly-
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 January 1918, Page 3
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154A REMARKABLE PLOT. Hokitika Guardian, 21 January 1918, Page 3
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