RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 March 1917, Page 5

RUSSIA.

THE PERSIAN CAMPAIGN. A SENSATIONAL REPORT FROM AMERICA. OF CAPTURE OF TURKISH ARMY. Received March 15, 12.43 a.m. Washington, March 14. One of the diplomatic office:-) in the United Stafi's has received information that the Turkish army in Western Persia, numbering 15,000, has been capturedby the Russians. The report is unconfirmed elsewhere. THE FOOD TROUBLE, Pcirograd, March 13. Yielding, to the popular demonstrations the Government has derided to hsnd O'er the food ouestion to the mnnieinnlities, which have been ' endow <-3 with extraordinary powers of organising the distribution of broad. They are introducing the. card system. The Minister for Agriculture admits that blunders have been made, and points out that the present; disorders are mainly due to public lack of confidence, combined with the. delaying of supplies owing to snow storms.

lIl'N CRUELTY TO T'RTSOXERS. I'ctrograd, Mar?h 13. Toe coinmi-'sion wh'ch is enquiring info the enemy's violation of international law, has published J)r Krilov's evidence. Tiie doctor states that during the epidemic of typhus in the crimp at Koiyint?, Prussia, in December. l!)M. the patients were lying on planks in the barracks, and were so cold that their extremities were frozen, necessitating amputation?. They were always hungry, and some searched the drains for iood, causing dysentery. The absence of baths and wash-houses resulted in the uncleanliness of patients, at which the Germans jeered. When the epidemic broke out the Germans left the Russian doctors to attend to the sick, not providing suflicient i:- : Yr.e and forbidding their purchase. There were now similar conditions at Prasnych, in August, 11115, where the majority of the wounded were sometimes untended oil the se\enteenth da vs.