RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 May 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

PfTROGRAD IN EXTREMIS.

CAUSE 09 DEBACLE. London, llay 19. The latest advices from Petrograd give a deplorable accouat of the conditions of life fe> that dty. Tkere la very little food, and the official ratioas scarcely sustain existence, consequently theft and fraud are rampant. A snail quantity of provisions in private hands leads to extortionate profiteering. Haras cost £54, ud a single egg 3s The city goutally is going to wrack and ruin. VHdlmir Bourbeff, the famous Buaiaa revotmtionary, was recently released from a Petrograd fortress and has arrived at Stockholm. In a message to the Daily ChwiiU he som up the causes of the Russian debacle, attributing it to republican weakness and Bolshevik vindictiveMMt The Bolsheviks bad a purpose, wkkk Xerensky lacked. M. Bourbeff Mdjr believes that the Bolsheviks at* ways intended to (ell Russia in order to have leisure to organise anarchist propagaada Re adds that the Germans, evea 'hi Bokhevtk Russia, are calmly bayftg banks, estates, ship*, and railways, and that the Bolsheviks have appointed Gaaetsky to natiowliwi the Petrograd teaks Ganetsky is a notorious Germaa a#ent. and was once caught red-teaded. X. Bonrbeff say* that he and other revoUrtieaaries bow perceive that the nvofotion has been a calamity.—An*. y.Z Cable Assoc.

SEMENOFF'S FORCES MOVING. BSLntVUfG SIBERIA FROM SOVIET . COJfTIOL. Washington, Mmj 19. lltratin has readied Russian diplomatic rirelei that General SemenofTs fonaa are moving steadily on Irkntsk. It k expected ha will soon retch Ltks Baikal, wfcith woold remor* the control of fttfceria, cut of the lake, from the SovM OavennMit at Moww.-Aw. -» Cable Assoc

THE RUSSIAN PROBLEM,

P&EVEXTDfG f.EKMAX DOMINATION URGED.

Pari*. May 18. The entrre French preos urjres #n early combined effort to nolve the Russian pfiMw and prevent Germany reorganising Russia. in Germany's interests. U Temp* says that the «nt neeesaity in a coherent method, and suggest# that the Entente begin by (jetting coherent Information bv centralising and examining news. Weihtagton woold be the Moft suitable centre.—Aus. S.Z, Cable Aunt.

•TWEET FIGHTING AT KIEFF.

OlflkAXS DICLaRE a state of SIEGE. Baeanred May 20, 9.15 p.m. Berne, Hay 19. dertral attempt* have been made of i»t<s at Kiefl against the occupying authority, and (treat fighting has occurred. The German command, in conjunction With the Divisional Government, hae decreed a state of siege, and arrested many Members of the revolutionary committee and sent them for trial by military courts.—An*, and N.Z. Cable Assoc.

.GERMANS STILL PUSHING ON. p/ajBWVTTfI WAKING UP TO THE DANGER. Reeeifed May 20, 8.20 p.m. London, May 19. A wlrcleee Russian ofiefail iata»*gt point* out that the (krm*a», deapite the I for MSMtion of hostilities, tat atiU engaged in military operations in the Don r^km. TIM Oeeernmart kas eMWraßKeted with General Oixbaek, pointing ont that than «H *> juetHkatiee for refusing the armistice, a»4 requesting General Oifeuk to exr* * * rfeiT to rateriiw peaceful condition*. Hit PeopWe sent a fflM- ,!» u the prniMial eeweile, ordemj within * » de ?®J forth* creation of a itrag *« d ™ ltad Red Army to defend the KepnWia fn» tU iatemal and.asternal enemiee. CRUSHING MD GtJARD MBttß. Tbe Stoekketa eorr»ep<mdaßt asjSOTfissr

MEAGRE FOOD SUPPLIES.

GERMANS' DISAPPOINTMENT. ItMeived May 20, 8.20 p.m. Moscow, May 19. The Bolshevik Press Bureau haa published a tccret circular which the German Government had addressed to all newspaper* in Germany, stating that the German commissioners had convinced cereals in Ukraine, owing to'insufficient themselves of the dearth of supplies of lowing* last year, and the small owners secreting supplies. The peasants in Ukraine were nearly all armed against the Germans. Possibly greater supplies would be discovered with the further advance by the Germans, and better results may be obtained by armed force, but in any case the hope for improvement of Qesauay's food supplies was exceedingly problematical.—Beater. DOMICILE OF EX-CZAR AND FAMILY. Amsterdam, May 10. Newspapers state that the ex-C!zar is to be brought before a court-martial at Moscow in June.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Association.

Berne, May 19. A Moscow telegram states that negotiations are proceeding far settling the exCzar and family in Switzerland, journey, ing via Rotimania and Austria. The Czar's family are willing to go to Switzerland.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.