RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, 22 August 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

RIOTS IN PETROGRAD. AMSTERDAM, August 20 Reports from Berlin indicate that terrible food riots have occurred in Pctrograd. Starved workers, , after a procession, made a demonstration at the Smolny Institute, the Bolshevik headquarters shouting; “Away with the Germans, away with the Kremlin.” They encountered Lettish Guards, and in the fierce fighting which followed hundreds were killed and wounded on both sides. Martial law was proclaimed. I < ' A COSSACK APPEAL TO GERMANY. COPENHAGEN, August 20, Duke Leuchtcnberg, formerly the Czars’ adjutant, has arrived in Berlin • with a letter from the Cossack General Krasnow, to the Kaiser, asking assistance against the Soviet Government. The Don Republic desires Germany to recognise its independence German newspapers deprecate the request, on the ground that the time is inopportune to intervene in Russian internal affairs. I