RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 December 1917, Page 5

RUSSIA.

BOLSHEVIKS DEFEATED. CIVIL WAR SPREADS. BANKS CLOSED AT PETROGRAD. ■ Received Dee. 18, 8.55 p.m. ' Petrograd, Dee. 17. In the fighting yesterday at Odessa between the Ukraine and Bolshevik regiments, the latter werp defeated. News from the south and from Siberia indicates the extension of the civil war. The PetrogTad banks are closed. DISORDER AT HARBIN. CAUSED BY BOLSHEVIK CONTROL. CHINESE TROOPS CALLED IN. Reuter Service. "eecivcd D«c. ID, 12.30 a.m. London, Dee. 18. Reuter learns from Japanese sources that the Harbin population, which consists largely 61 Jews, is entirely under Bolshevik control, and that great disorder prevails. Brigands attacked the premises of important Japanese and other firms. The Allied Ministers at Pekin decided to entrust the preservation of order to Chinese troops, who are already en route thither. SKOULON'S DEATH. BELIEVED TO BE MURDERED. Petrograd, Dec. 17. The violent death of General Skoulon the army representative at the peace negotiations, lias aroused a sensation. The Leninist members of the conference state that Skoulon committed • suicide, but the general belief is that he was murdered, as lie refused to be identified with a disgraceful peace. THE REIGN OF TERROR. OFFICERS GROSSLY TREATED. London, Dec. 17. The Petrograd correspondent of the Daily Chronicle report sthat the Leninist decree ordering the abolition of officers came into force on the 15th. Practically ail officer.* have been degraded and many have been assaulted and their medals and epaulets torn off. Officers have been subjected to every insult, in which German spies encouraged the soldiers. Colonels have been forced to exchange work with their own orderlies and other officers forced to clean the stables. The PetrogTad correspondent of the Daily that the latest returns of Assembly election show that 148 Social Revolutionaries and 78 Bolsheviks have been elected. Everv day brings more outrages and confiscations hy teh Leninists. The contents of TOO "wine vaults in Petrograd, valued at millions of roubles, have been destroyed. Pools of wine formed in some streets, which the people bailed into anything handy. FAMINE APPROACHING. AMERICAN'S ADVISED TO LEAVE. New York, Dee. 17. The United Press correspondent at Tokio states that the conditions in Russia are becoming intolerable. There is increasing evidence that famine is approaching. Mr. Francis, American .Amir s?ador at Petrograd, ha 9 advised all Ai..' -. icans to leave the capital. One'hundred and sixty-seven are now awaiting a passage via the Siberian railway. ARREST UNCONFIRMED KORNILOFF REPORTED WOUNDED. Petrograd, Dec. 17. There is no confirmation of the report of the arrest of General Kaledin. It is reported that General Korniloff was wounded in the fight with the Bolfhevik troops near Potg'hefF, JAP TROOPS NOT AT VLADIVOSTOK. Tokio, Dec, 17. The landing of Japanese at VJadivos-•tolf-is denied.