ON THE EAST FRONT.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 May 1918, Page 2

ON THE EAST FRONT.

[t'ER TBESS ASSOCIATION. COPYRIGHT.] I rl^sia~land, [AUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION] 1 A REUTER.] ROME May 14. The “Popolo’s” Moscow .correspondent reports that- out of a million square f kilkomctrcs of grain lands in the Uk- i Caine, only 60,000 have been cultivated this year, the peasants refusing to cul- 1 tiVatfc' for the Germans, BERNE Alay 14. ‘ The Munich ‘‘‘Nach rich ten” state's j that enormous areas in the Ukraine, including expropriated estates of big landholders untilled'. and the coming harvest wifaygive insufficient grain for the Ukrania'in population.- Some toWns ale already suffering from hunger. FIGHTING iX MOSCOW, PETROGRAD,- .May U. , Sovl.ei troojls surrounded the' ariar- / ehists’s hcflclfglfll'tei's at Afoscow.- When the anarchist’s , tefused to surrender, 1 armoured cars b'ohiharded them, the anarchists’ replying with fnadiine-grns and grenades, hut after hour an hours’ fight- they hoisted the white flag. Fighting is being continued in other streets. Many guns have beeen posted', at the Kremlin, where the Council of Commissaries is sitting. NEW REIGN OF TERROR. LONDON, May 14. A wireless Russian official report states that the Foreign Commissary has 1 sent a message to the German Govern- I ment, calling attention to the terrible i position of the peaceful population of tlie occupied regions in White Russia along the line of demarcation. Here there have been violent pogorms, tortures. executions, savage treatment of workers, burning of Russian villages by German and Polish troops, and the willing hilt of village's with machine it'iiiS; . .. . The Russian Government complains that persons suspected of Bolshevik sympathies are being shot or imprisoned under terrible conditions. A reigri of terror exists, being particularly bad ' in the town of .Minsk and the districts of Bobrins.k and Viborg where many hundreds have been slaughtered by machine-guns. The Foreign CommisSafv Suggests the j formation of Russo-Gennan vomiriissaries, including representatives of the local. population, to investigate these conditions,