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Taihape Daily Times, 28 May 1918, Page 5

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RUSSIA’S DIVIDED CONDITION. Received.. 11.30 a.m. • LONDON, May 27. The Daily News’ Petrograd correspondent says there are two marked tendencies noticeable in Russia. The masses are becoming more and more anti-German, while the privilege classes are more eagerly looking to Germany to save them from the masses. Thus the Cadets in the Ukraine are asisting Germany’s food gatherers Skoropodsky, and the Cadets in Moscow are conferring with Count MerBach. The only definite anti-German force in Russia is the Soviets. The Germans daily add to the peasants’ anti-German fire by a series of exasperations so that peasant risings occur daily, demanding Targe German forces to restore order. At the same time the torn populations are beginning to starve and blame the Soviets therefore. The shortage of food is really partly due to transport difficulty and partly to the peasants hoarding grain. The Daily Express’s Petrograd correspondent says German circles are canvassing for the restoration of the monarchy in Russia, and suggest the Grand "Duke of Mecklenburg Schwerin, whose mother is a Russian giand duchess.

The Daily Chronicle’s Geneva correspondent interviewed two leaders of the so-called Russian monarchist movement, whose headquarters are at Geneva, and discovered they were merely German agents professing to restore the Constitutional monarchy, but really aiming to divide the Entente.