Russian Armies Orowing.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 2 July 1918, Page 3

Russian Armies Orowing.

TO RESIST GERMAN PENE r TRATION. Received this day, 11 ■•!<) a.m. London, July 1. It is reported from Rostoff thai a large, number of officers and men are flocking to the volun- „ teer army of which General Alexieff has been appointed Chief-of-Staff._ It is reported from Varonesli, that the Germans continue to advance with the utmost tenacity. They are also arming the German colonists in the Tabriz district (Persia). The People's Convention in tlie Northern Caucasus has ordered immediate mobilisation owing to the continued advance of the Germans. The latter have occupied Tiflis and are organising the Austro-Gennan war prisoners. ' GERMAN RATHER THAN JAPANESE. Received this day, at 5.50 a.m. Petrograd, July 1. ' Trotsky, at a meeting at Saka-r - lnika, said if he had to choose between German and Japanese occupation he would choose. German as a social revolution was approaching there. A RUSSIAN MARTYR. Received this day at 11.30 a.m. Moscow, July 1. A Bolslievik Court sentenced to deotli 'Captain Stcliasang, excommander of the Baltic Fleet, on a charge of opposing and discrediting Soviet rule. The Central Executive of tlie Soviets confij'med the sentence and it was carried out within 24 hours. JUNKERS DENOUNCED.

Received ibis clay, 11.30 a.m. Berne, July 1. The Austrian Social Democratic newspapers warmly champion . Kulilmann. The Zeit violently denounces the, J linker pan-Ger-;maos as hypocrites. AUSTRIAN lIEFOE M DEMANDED. Received this day at 11.30 a.m. Berne, July 1. The South German papers publish a semi-official article insisting on the .necessity of far-rea oiling internal reforms in Aiistria on the basis of autonomous nationalities. A ROD FOR"THEIR OWN BACKS. Received this day, 11.30 a.m. London, July 1. The newspapers point out that Germany is providing a useful precedent in forcing Roumania to punish certain officials for alledged ill-treatment of German Srisoners, also in demanding inemnification of the relatives of prisoners who have died. HOW THE"ENEMY HELPED. Received this day, 11.30 a.m. Capetown, July 1. German farmers in the Natal midlands where there are a considerable number of German settlers are reported to be materially reducing the., area under cultivation with a view to restricting production for the duration of the war. Where previously hundreds of acres were worked there is now a maximum of only fifteen acres. EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS. Received this day, at 8.50 a.m. The Hague, July 1. The Prisoners of War Conference resumed to-day. It is expected to conclude early in the week. Sir G. Cave states that it has been difficult to arrange an exchange of prisoners but he entertained hopes that tliey will come to a reasonable agreement. a whitiTelephant. Received this day, at 8.50 a.m. .London, July 1. The Select Committee on Public Expenditure reveals the useless expenditure of nearly four millions sterling upon public shipyards. The Admiralty embarked on the scheme without any estimate of tlie cost and finally decided to establish tliirtyfoiirtli berths averaging £120,000 apiece, exclusive of the cost of the land. Only a few berths arc yet completed though four millions have been spent and it is now found to employ military labour or prisoners for the construction of ships as contemplated. As civilian labour is practically unobtainable it has been decided not to build ships in the National yards but to develope constructed and fabricated ships in private yards.

Mil MARSEY'S APPEAL TO ! IRELAND. ■ I Received this clay 11.30 a.m. I London, July 1. ! Mr Massey, in a..message to the Irish Recruiting Council, appeals , to Irishmen who have not yet ri- j Hen to a sense of duty in the great struggle for civilisation.-He says : "This is not a tinu? to keep up sectional grievances and differences. It- is a time for all Irishmen to remember the honour of their country, to remember t-lioir gallant countrymen who have .made the supreme sacrifice." He urges - them to join the Allies' ranks. •FAMINE AMONST JEWS, Beceived this day at 11.30 a.m. Amsterdam, July 1. "The Jewish Correspondence Bureau publishes a letter descri-bing-the terrible famine . conditions- in. -Northern "Palestine. The prices of foodstuffs are extortionate and. the. people eat grass on thft -'.grave#: Hundreds of orphanr are' wandering famished arid' naked and many .people die of hunger in the -streets.-