RUSSIAN CRISIS.

Taihape Daily Times, 28 March 1918, Page 5

RUSSIAN CRISIS.

chaos in Russia.

TROTSKY THREATENS CONSCRIP TION.

Received 9.15

PETROGRAD, March 27

Soviet troops have recaptured Kherson and Nicolaieli'. The Germans oceupiod Krcaicntchug. The People’s Commissaries are removing the ex-Tsar and family to the Oral region. Trotsky is appealing to the population to co-operate in the organisation of a. red army and announces that a decree is pending enforcing universal service, calling up ex-officers as instructors. Chechen tribes, under Russian officers, have risen against the Soviets ’ authority in the Caucasus.