RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, 22 March 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

ORGANISING COMMERCIAL RELATIONS. '■ :ij ■■ | *tK PETROGRAD, March 21.. It is anticipated that Herr Hallb'j in coining to Petrograd to hasten the resumption of Russo-German commercial relations. PEKIN, March 21 Japanese and Chinese Ambassadors from Petrograd have arrived. GERMANS STILL ADVANCING. NIKOLAIEFP OCCUPIED. IMMENsJs BOOTY SEIZED ODESSA. GRINDING RUMANIA DOWN. Received 11.35. PETROGRAD, March 21. Despite the so-called peace the Germans are speedily advancing in South Russia. They occupied Nikolaieff without resistance. There are indications that the Germans in the north have re-grouped their forces preparatory to an active policy. Enemy troops have reached the outskirts of Kharkoff. Other detachments are approaching the railway station between Petrograd and Moscow, apparently aiming at Moscow by sweeping 'movements from north and south. The Government prepared to leave Moscow if seriously threatened.

The statement is confirmed that Entente and neutral shipping at Odessa escaped to Sebastopol, but the German booty at Sebastopol is estimated at 150 million roubles. The Russian Church repudiates the peace treaty.

BERNE, March 21

Austria’s . territorial demand from Roumania totals seven thousand square miles including Vulcan Pass, Porta, Orientala, and The Iron Gate. Czernin demanded a strip . twenty miles wide from Oena northward for 140 miles. It is proposed to compels sate Roumania for the loss of this territory and the Dobrudja by gaining her Bessarabian territory westward of the Dneister.