RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, 13 May 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

RUSSIA AND UKRAINE. A STATE OP WAR. MOSCOW, May 10. Shoropadsky, in a manifesto, issued on assuming office, told the Ukrainians that they owed their salvation to the Central Powers, who were invincible. The manifesto does not mention peace with Russia. It is therefore assumed that Ukraine will continue operations against Russia. Germany informed the Foreign Commissary that in Ukraine the peace delegation to Ukraine must bo radically reconstituted, and Kieff, not Kursk, be the scene of pourparlers. RUSSIA'S ROYAL PRISONERS. VISITED BY GERMAN PRESSMAN. Received 8.55 a.m. BERNE, May 12. The Frankfurter Zeitung's correspondent in the Crimea visited Dieb'e Castle, where the Romanoffs are kept prisoners, under the surveillance of twenty-five soldiers of the Sebastopol Soviet, who have sworn to prevent their escape. The Archduke Nicholas refused to receive the correspondent, explaining that he had nothing to say. POLITICAL PRISONERS RELEASED. TROOPS SENT TO THE WEST Received 11 a.m. * MOSCOW, May 12. Many political and other prisoners have been released, including ex-War Minister Sukhomlinoff and other Ministers of the •Romanoff and Kerensky regimes, except those charged with high treason and embezzlement. Refugees from Riga state that numerous German troops have been hurriedly sent to the Wsteern front. UKRAINE'S FATE SEALED. MOSCOW, May 11. A' hew Government, composed of Cadets 'and Octobrists, has been formed'in Ukraine. The Premier" is M. Qustimvitch, and the Finance Minister M. Perhatsky (formerly a member of the Kerensky Cabinet). LONDON, May 11. : The newspapers are full of descriptions of the irruption TJf German soldiers into the Rada, members and the public standing at - pistol point, with hands up. The president (M. Crushevsky) alone protested. The efforts of Ukranian Ministers and the Rada to secure a compromise with the Germans were unavailing. The German Ambassador at Kieff, replying, said: "It is too late." .AMSTERDAM, May 11. , Frontier reports state that large contingents of Bavarian cavalry from the Flanders front traversed Liege. Their supposed destination is Ukraine. I The New York Times Moscow correspondent says protesting groups of Ukranian Socialists were told by the German authorities that they will not restore the Rada Government. He ,adds: The former Grand Duke Dmitri Pavalovach actively participated In the overthrow of the Rada. The Dowager Empress Marie Feodoravna has arrived at Kieff.

The Supreme War Council has ordered resistance to the German war bands trespassing across the Ukraine border. In the Don district, the Russian cavalry recaptured Rostoff and drove the Germans back thirty miles. A Vienna message states that the Bolsheviks murdered General Rennenkaniff. ! The Moscow reports state that the German Ambassador has sent an ultimatum to the People's Commissaries, demanding disarmament, the disbandent of military units, and the occupation of Moscow and other cities in Great Russia. The Germans have established a rigorous censorship at Kieff. The police raided the residence of Professor Grouchexsky, president of Central Rada, intending to arrest him. They also attempted to arrest Salikoviky, the Government Commissary at Kieff, but both escaped. CZARINA'S SISTER ARRESTED. MOSCOW, May 10. The Council of Commissaries arrested the Czarina's sister, the Grand Duchess Elizabeth, and sent her to Ekaterinburg, wnere the Imperial family has been transferred.