THE RUSSIAN MIX UP.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 May 1918, Page 2

THE RUSSIAN MIX UP.

(per PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT.j GREAT FIRE RAGING. PETROGRAD, May 22. A great fire is reported at- the dock and station at Archangel. SHORTAGE OF BREAD. PETROGRAD, May 22. The distribution of bread in the city has ceased. It has been replaced by potatoes, flour being unobtainable. WHAT GERMANY IS DOING. LONDON, May 22. A Russian wireless message complains that Germany was not only attacking the Russian warships in the Black Sea, but the submarines are shell ing the Russian ships, even with wounded aboard. FOOD SHORTAGE. ' LONDON, May 22. The Russian Ambassador at Berlin has been requested to inquire whether sailing ships may,, proceed to Norway for fish without fear of capture. RUSSIAN POLAND. LONDON, May 22nd. An authorativo Polish source states that Austria and Germany have a grew that Austria shall take a large of Russian Poland. Prussia; intends to seize other parts, but a vast majority of the Polish nation demands a united and independent I° a 4 ™ e from German and Magyar and including the NPohsh territories, Silesia, Posen and Dantzig. COSSACKS ENTER SAMARA. PETROGRAD, May 22. The Central Committee, cadet party passed a resolution in favour of continued loyalty to the Allies, and one opposing the asking of Gennan help. The Cossacks have entered Samara. A FAILURE’S CAUSE. (Received Tbi« Dav at 9.60. a.m.) NEW YORK, May 23. Lady Muriel Paget, addressing trie Red Gross organisation in New York, asserted that sixty thousand Russian prisoners were starved to death in Germany. If the Allies had cheered up and propaganda Russia, to counteract the German- propaganda, Ruwia j would still 'fce in. tW-fightiiig line. 1