RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 March 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

GERMAN CONTROL DENIED ■ MARTIAL LAW IN UKRAINE. Moscow, March 22. "• •*< The Foreign Affairs Commissary de« nies the rumors (hat, a German commis; ' : s siou is controlling the denationalisatiojl - ■ of the banks aw;l demanding extra tetj&i ;i lory, for (he ■iVtrogrml Souct GoU'rtl-' ■■ men I would never agree to -.ueh demands. \ lie also d.'iiics tha occupation of Kojtatff.'t Tho Germans aro still ISO rents Ivhurkoll'. &.<{ The Ukraine executive has proclaimed j martini law at Poltava, Kharkoff and ; .1 Tohernigoli'. A general mobilisation of; workers between 18 and 37 lias been or- /' derod. j i Trotsj;y, addre.ssng the, Soviet Confer- ■ [ ence at. Moscow, said ho believed a geu- ,« eral peace was possible at Rassia's if. pense, therefore, Russia must create tt strong army. ''u Opposition speakers called attention '!| to the inconsistency of Trotsky's advo*' ''f cacy of a new army in view of Lenin's \ demand for a ratification of the peacs & treaty. The, speakers nr#od that t&r,> r 3p country's defence should be placed' ia '{, the hands of the Constituent Assembly, adding that the Bolsheviks were poifteT" 'jj less to create an arm". .. ' KIFTS IN TIIE LUTE. : '3> '4l Petrograd; March M Serious differences have developed blik- ;-ag tween Austria and the Ukrainian Radsi regarding the division of territory. AUB*' W tria demanded a portion of the proviow -M. of Volhynia- « '' ''•(J It is reported that the Caucasian gov«"-J erning body has broken off peace ations with Turkey. f 'Vw ARMING ENEMY PRISONERS DENIED'. V 4 tS Received March 23, 5.5 p,m. 13 Petrograd, March . -fX Trotsky has emphatically denied thl the Bolsheviks are arming Awtrw,,''* German prisoners in Siberia. , GERMANS OCCUPY ANOTHER '* !| Received March 24, 5.5 p.m. . \ ',(s Petrograd, March 1!8. , 4 The Germans have occupied tha .town.' of Ochakoff, forty miles north-east oIU/i ■: ||