VOTING AT MOSCOW CONFERENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 March 1918, Page 5

VOTING AT MOSCOW CONFERENCE.

GERMANY CLAIMS A NEW LINE. ANTI-JEWISH RIOTS AT ODESSA. Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc, and Reuter. Received March 17, 5.5 p.m. Petrograd, March 16. A meeting of the Bolshevik members present at the Moscow conference decided by 453 to 30 to ratify the peace treaty. The conference includea 733 Maximalists and 238. Revolutionary Socialist delegates.

It is announced that in order to strengthen her strategic position, Germany has demanded the establishment of a new line seven miles east of the present Russian line on the Pskoff front, and is also insisting that the Russians help to destroy the pillaging bands. Fresh disorders are reported in the German fleet at the Aaland Islands, Auti-Jewish riots occurred at Odessa prior to its occupation.

PETROGRAD DESERTED. MANY BRITISH STRANDED. PEASANTS PACED WITH FAMINE. LYNCHING AND OTHER ATROCITIES MEN KILLED LDiE DOGS. Times Service. Received March 17, 5.5 p.m.

Petrograd, March 16. The evacuation has become a panic. There is tremendous railway congestion, and thousands are leaving on foot. Many Britishers are stranded in the city, which has the degenerated aspect of a provincial borough. There are no vehicles, lighting or fuel, and the transit services have been reduced to a minimum. M. Trotsky, aa Food Dictator, is constantly occupied in listening to the frantic appeals of provincial deputations, which declare that the peasants have now consumed the grain seed, and are faced with absolute fan-ine.

Petrograd's food difficulty is acute. All the provision shops are closed, and the uncleaned streets are heaping up with vast masses of Bnow. From horses, which have died of starvation, the buttocks have been slashed off by Tartars, who eat the meat minced and raw. The consumption of horsemeat is general, despite the appearance of glanders. The result of the Bolshevik legislation is apparent in the provinces, where the peasants are administrating ferocious lynch law. A whole village in the Kazan district turned out, to see four peasants burned to death for a crime which is not stated. Four youths of Barnopol, Siberia, were condemned to death for stealing, three being publicly beheaded and the fourth barbarously mutilated and tortured to death. Zmievo merchants were ordered to pay 100,000 roubles ( £11,250) each, and those failing to pay were thrown into the river like dogs with stones attached to their necks.