RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 May 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

GERMAN RUTHLESSNESS. RUSSIAN SHIPS ATTACKED. FISH WANTED FROM NORWAY. Received May 23, 7.50 p.m. London, May 22. A Russian wireless message complains that Germany is not only attacking Russian warships in the Black Sea, but that submarines are shelling Russian ships. even with wounded aboard. The Russian ambassador at Berlin has been requested to inquire whether sailing ships may proceed to Norway for fish without fear of capture.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Association. BREAD DISTRIBUTION CEASES. GREAT FIRE AT ARCHANGEL. CADET LOYALTY TO ALLIES. Received May 23, 7.50 p.m. I'etrograd. May 22. The distribution of bread in the city has ceased, having been replaced by potatoes, flour being unobtainable. A great fire is reported at the dock and station at Archangel. The central committee of the Cadet Tarty pssed a resolution favoring continued loyalty to the Allies, and opposing asking German help. Several Dutoffs and anti-Bolshevik Cossacks have entered the Government of Samara.—Reuter. MAY DAY CELEBRATIONS. GROTESQUE OPERATIONS. London, May 22. The I'etrograd correspondent of the Daily Express states that the Bolsheviks celebrated Russian May Day as a festival of the victory over capitalism. The celebrations were of the strangest character, and included the daubing of the Marinsky 'Palace, the Winter Palace, and the Government offices with cubist designs, the erection of cubist picture /galleries in the Neveky Prospect with allegorical designs representing the projress of the proletariat. They included a picture of the Kaiser as the skeleton of death scything the red flowers of revolutionary Russia.

The celebrations in Moscow included the wholesale removal of all monuments erected in memory of monarchs and heroes of the Czars' times. Only the SkouelotT monument was spared, which is a new statue representing the revolution before Skobeloff.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.