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RUSSIA.

■ FIERCE BATTLE AT KIEFF. ATTACKED OX ALL SIDESGERMANS TO THE RESCUE. Received Fell- 17, 5.:50 p.m. Amsterdam, Feb. ]C. A Vienna message; states that in accordance with the terms of peace with Ukiaitic the Austro-Hun</arian troops entered Brody. Thus the last big town in east Galicia has reverted to AuatroHtuigary. The Ukrainian Rada lias sent a wireless message that Kieff has been attacked on all sides and that a iierce battle is proceeding. It appeals for mili* tary and technical assistance. The Central Powers aro sending a military guard to occupy the most important ports and harborsGERMAN MACHINATIONS. TO SECURE UKRAINIAN WHE^T. Received Feb. 17, 5.30 p.m. Amsterdam, Feb. lfl. All reports from »Germany suggest that the Government is seeking an excuse for an opportunity to re-attack northern Russia in order to ensure peace with Ukraine, which secures supplies of wheat Inspired messages to this effect are published in German newspapers. CFRMAN COMMISSIONERS

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PREPARATIONS AGAINST BOLSHEVIKS. Alls, and NZ. Cable Assoc, and Renter. Received Feb. 17, 11.20 p.m. London, Feb. 10. There are indications that Germany U preparing to move against the Bolsheviks. All the German commissioners have left Petrograd. A GERMAN CONFERENCE. FREE TO RENEW WAR. TROTSKY'S FAILURE AND lIS CONSEQUENCES. Received Feb. 17, 5.30 p.m. Amsterdam, Feb. 10. It is reported that a German conference of political and military men decided that in view of Trotsky's evasion they were quite free to renew war against Russia, The first operation will probably be to support Ukraine. A well-informed authority states that Trotsky returned to Petrograd and told the people that he had cleverly avoided the German conditions, but that German troops would follow him. BOLSHEVIKS AND UKRAINIA. . PEACE RIDICULED. THREAT OF GUERILLA WARFARE. GERMANS CONTROL RUSSIAN NEWS. Times Service. Received Feb; 17, 5.5 p.m. London, Feb- lfl. Latest Bolshevik arrivals from Russia ridicule the idea of peace. They declare that the Rada is thoroughly impotent, and that the Soviets now'control all tlie big towns in the Ukraine. The Bolsheviks, while demobilising the regular*, will organise extensive forces for guerilla warfare in the event of the AustroGcrmans attempting hostilities. Kieff and Petrograd will henceforth act conjointly in corresponding while treating with Germany. Anxious to prevent Russian news reaching the outside world and thence percolating to the Central Empires, the Germans have severed the direct cable between Petrograd and Sweden. Practically all Russian news is now edited in Berlin. GERMAN METHODS. A PRETEXT FOR HARSHNESS. BOLSHEVIKS ARREST GERMANSReceived Feb. 17, 55 p.m. Amsterdam, Feb. 15. Tlie Lokal Anzeiger says that the Maximalists' bullying of the Germans in Esthonia and Livonia calls from the German Government speedy action to save Germanism. The Bolsheviks at Reval arrested three thousand Germans, locking the men in the castle and the cinema theatres. Arrests aro also reported at other places. The whole of the German nobility in Esthonia and Livonia has been declared "suspect" and is liable to arrest and court-martial. GERMANISING KIEFF. ELABORATE ARRANGEMENTS MADE. Received Feb. 17, 5.5 p.m. Berne, Feb. 15. Besides sending a commercial mission to Kieff, Germany offers the services of professors to organise higher education in Ukraine, also to lend military instructors to supervise the reorganisation of the army. Austria, Germany, and Turkey are appointing distinguished ambassadors at Kieff. Germany is starting a daily pager at Kieff on March 2. ,

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Taranaki Daily News, 18 February 1918, Page 5

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RUSSIA. Taranaki Daily News, 18 February 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA. Taranaki Daily News, 18 February 1918, Page 5

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