RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 March 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

ONLY A TEMPORARY PEACH. DESPERATE INTERNAL CONDITION. DEMORALISED NOMADI SOLDIERS. Received March in, 5.5 p.m. London, March !). Tlie Daily News' Petrograd correspondent says that net a single newspaper or politician admiii? this is a lasting peace. Ail agree upon the immediate need of an organised force for resistance. The condition.? of internal Russia are desperate, rural life living at a standstill owing to ladk of agricultural implements, while the railways have broken down. There arj masses oi' crawling, demoralised soldiery, many of whom have no intention of returning home, anil have token up a half-conscious nomadic ■existence. Every station is like an opened hive of bees, the smell bein<;- like a vast latrine- The men are swarming into cattle trucks. The correspondent believes it will he years before the demobilisation is complete. Thousands are leaving Petrograd on foot or on the roofs and butters of rolling stock, hoping to find food, ,fnpunesc intervention will make the national catastrophe irreparable, end will mean a shortage of meat as well as corn. A BOLSHEV'K ORDER. TO PLENIPOTENTIARY IN SWEDEN. GERMAN PROTEST AGAINST DEPORTATIONS. Aus, and N.Z. Cable Assoc, and Reuter. / Received March 10, 5.5 p.m. London, March 0. Wireless Russian: Lenin and Trotsky have ordered the Bolshevik plenipotentiary in Sweden to have no relatione ; with German .Socialist, imperialists. They declare that the partisans of Scheidcmann, David, and the strike- | breakers are traitors to the working :-h\.yi. Wireless Herman official: Von Dcmbuseho has communicated with the Sraolny Institute, Petrograd, stating that 450 inhabitants at Dovpat and Reval, with 1.10 from other Livonian towns, have been deported in cattle trucks- This is in contravention of the peace treaty, therefore he protests r.gainst further deportation?, and demands the return of those already deported. * GERMANS AT AALAND. FORMIDABLE FORCE LANDED. Reuter Service. Pieceived March 10, 5-5 p.m. Stockholm, 'March 9. The Nyadagligt Aliehanda publishes a telegram from the Aalands stating that the disembarkation of German troops started on Wednesday and is proceeding rapidly, forrttidalble forces having already landed. JAMBURG RECAPTURED. Reuter Service. Received March 10, 55 p.m. London, March !). The Russians recaptured Jamburg after serious fighting. TROTSKY'S RESIGNATION OF OFFICE. Aus- and N.Z. Cable Assoc, and Reuter, Received March 11, 1.30 a.m. Petrograd. March 10. Trotsky has resigned his Conrraissioner3hip of Foreign Affairs. GEBMAN REPLY TO KBYLENKO. London* March 8. A wireless German official message states that the Austro-Gcrman supremo command has sent a message to General Krylenko us follows: In lending aid to the Ukraine, Auatro-Hungarian troops are only engaged in fighting in places where tho enemy resistance had to ho broken. THE GERMAIW-FINNISH TREATYAmsterdam, March 8. A Germaiio-Flrmish treaty has been signed whereby Germany promises to secure from all the Powers recognition of Finnish independence. Finland undertakes not to cede territory to a foreign Power and not to allow foreigners to use their territory except by agreement. Germany abandons claims for war expenses and removes fortifications from the Aaland Islands. She agrees to the permanent fortification of the Aaland Islands. THE PENALTY OF ANARCHY. Now Yorjc, March 8. Tho World's Petrograd correspondent expects that peace will bo ratified at Moscow by the Congress of Soviets and Bolsheviks. The newspaper Pravda says: "Tho worst enemies of the revolution ate Count Czernin and General Hoffmann. As the result of this 'roller peace' the workmen and peasants will suffer a terrible punishment." MOSCOW TO BE SEAT OF-GOVERN-MENT. 1 l ' Petrograd, March 8. 'The Council of Commissaries has decided to romovo the Government to Moscow. The evacuation is proceeding rapidlyTho German occupation of Petrograd is considered likely on the pretext of restoring order. The Leninites who favor the ratifica- < tion of tho peace terms are ' gaining ground. MUTINOUS POLES CAPTURED. Amsterdam, .March 8. , A Polish .brigade of RfOO »mcn mutinied. Croatian infantry obstructed the mutineers reaching Roumnni-Bc-'ia'ir.'.-iau territory, and teck prisoner '.be. I'cle.i alter hcvo'-c lighting and heavy mutual loaueii. - *'