RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, 24 May 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

RUSSIA AND THE ENTENTE. WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN. Received 9.10 a.m. NEW YORK, May 23. Lady Muriel Paget, addressing the Red Cross organisation in New York, asserted that 60,000 Russian prisoners were starved to death in Germany.Jf the Allies had cheered up and earned on a propaganda in, Russia to counteract the German propaganda, Russia would still have been in the lighting line. POLAND’S FATE. LONDON, May 22. An authoritative Polish ; sourcc states that Austria and Germany have agreed that Austria will take a large portion of Russian Poland. Prussia, intends to seize other parts, but the vast majority of the Polish nation demands a united independent Poland, free from German and Magyar domination, including the Polish territories pf Silesia, Posen and Dantzig. GERMANS ATTACKING RUSSIAN SHIPS. LONDON, May 22. A Russian wireless message complains that Germany is not only attacking warships in the Black Sea, but her submarines are shelling Russian ships even with wounded aboard_ Thc Russian ambassalor at B'erlln has been requested to inquire whether sailing ships may proceed to Norway for fish without fear of capture. CADET PARTY LOYAL TO ALLIES. PETROGRAD, May 22. The distribution of bread in the city has ceased, and bread has been replaced by potatoes, flour being unobtainable. The Central Committee of the Cadet Party passed a resolution in favour of continued loyalty to the Allies, and opposed asking Germany for help. Several of Cutoff’s Anti-Bolshevik Cossacks have entered the Government of Samara (on the Volga’s bank, at the influx of the .Samara, 656 miles E_S.E. of Moscow by rail.) GREAT FIRE AT ARCHANGEL. PETROGRAD, May 22. A great fire is reported to have destroyed the dock and station at Archangel 40 miles above the junction of the Dwina with the White,