RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 May 1918, Page 6

RUSSIA.

GERMAN DOMINATION. -- -»*\.g CAUSES REVOLT IX UKRAINE." Petrograd, May 7. The revolt against German ilominatiijn in the Ukraine is so strong that the Rada has even lost the support of the ibourgeoise. Anti-German l'eeliug lias shown itself in the difficulties at Lending the collection of corn. Small bands of revolutionaries seized whole corn trains going to Germany, and sporadic peasant risings made it unsafe for the Germans to move- except in considerable numbers' The Germans who established the proGerman Government in the Ukraine categorically refuse to stop military operations in the Ukraine. It is announced that the Germans have disarmed the Ukrainian divisions and that a great portions of the Black Sea fleet has returned to Odessa and has now been placed at the disposal of the proGerman Ukrainian Government. The German Government has lodged a protest with (lie Russian Government against Bolshevik agitation among German war prisoners as a violation of the BTegt-Litovsk treaty.

UKRAINE GOVERNMENT ANTIGERMAN. London, May 7.. Dr. Harold Williams-, in an article in the Daily Chronicle, says that, from what he knows of the personnel of the new Ukraine Government, it is distinctly anti-German and is trying to make'the best of a bad job. Dr. Williams says that Skoropadski is a soldier wholly innocent of politiesThe new Premier, Vasilenko, is a member of the Cadet Party and convinced of the necessity of union with Russia— Reuter. DEMAND FOR RECALL OP TYRANTS. Moscow, May 7. The Ukrainian Government has sent to Berlin a Note of protest, indicating that it will resign unless the German Government recalls several officials, including the military commander, General Eicliorn, and the Ambassador, Herr Schwazenstein.—Reuter.