Russian Crisis.

Taihape Daily Times, 6 March 1918, Page 6

Russian Crisis.

GERMAN INVASION OF * .RUSSIA. PETROGRAD, March 4. Aeroplane bombs fell on the neighbourhood of Eoutanka and channel, killing two and injuring eight persons. The Central Executive have summoned an extraordinary Congress of Soviet deputies to ratify peace terms at Moscow on the 12th. People in Petrograd are unaware of how the place terms will affect northern Russia; it may possibly include political reconstruction in addition to territorial stipulations.

EMPTY SUCCESSES.

NEW YORK, March 3.

'■ Mr. C. Shaplen, the United Press Association’s Petsograd correspondent, interviewed M. Ealegayeff, Commissioner of Agriculture, who said that the war would continue irrespective of ■the signing of peace at Brest Litovslc. The Germans now occupy only the breadless provinces, and if they take Petrograd must feed three million inhabitants. Military successes therefore will simply tighten the economic noose round Germany’s neck. MILITARY MOVEMENTS CEASE. LONDON, March 3. A wireless German message says that owing to the signature of a peace treaty, military movements in Great Russia have ceased. PROVINCIAL SOVIETS DISSATISFIED. PETROGRAD, March 3. A large number of Provincial Soviets, including that at Moscow, express dissatisfaction with the peace terms and convened a congress of Soviets at Moscow on the 12th inst., to discuss conditions. PETROGRAD BOMBED. PETROGRAD, March 3. ,’A German aeroplane bombed the city, killing three and wounding five. PEACE SIGNED. ■ '7 BERNE, March 3. German official. —Peace was signed at 5 o’clock on the evening of the 3rd inst.