RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 May 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

MORE RIOTS. GERMANY.'S DRASTIC METHODS. Moscow, May 26. Food riots have occurred in several provincial towns. There was serious rioting at Hipjni Novgorod, where ten thousand employees at the Sormova works declared a one-day strike and passed a resolution in favor of a Constituent Assembly and against the Soviet. The German authorities of some of the occupied Russian territories have arrested a number of Anstro-German war prisoners who joined the extremist political organisations. General Arnold shot several hundred Ausbro-Gennan internationalists and prohibited war prisoners from participating in the Bolshevik organisation.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.

.PEASANTS' RISING SPREADING GERMAN TROOPS DEFEATED. Received May 28, 815 p.m. Moscow, May 26. The peasants' rising has spread throughout Ukraine. The authorities despatched German troops to disarm them, but the Novgorod district secured artillery and machine-guns, and defeated the Assoc. A CAUCASIAN VICTORY. FIGHTING m UKRAINE. Received May 27 7.50 pjnMoscow, May 28. The Caucasus Government's forces have recaptured Suklmmkole. A Bolshevik paper states that peasant insurgents in tho Ukraine defeated Skoropodsky's Germo-Ukrainian troop 9. The Ukrainian railwaymen struck to assist the peasants, and have been replaced by Germans-—Renter. ALLIED ASSISTANCE. AMERICA TO DECIDE. London, May 26. It is understood that the Allies are seriously considering how to re-establish the Russian situation, which is now regarded as hopeless. America will decide the manner of the Allied assistance and how it can best be given.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. GERMAN DOMINATION OF FINLAND. Copenhagen, May 20. It is reported that Finland's commercial agreement with Germany gives Germany economic control of Finland fo» i twenty years. Germany is financing a number of Finnish factories, particularly those which are producing articles suitable for export to Russia. A defensive alliance has also been concluded, Finland undertaking to provide 100,000 troops, to be at Germany's disposal, in the event of Russia renewing hostilities.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. QUESTION OF JAPAN'S INTERVENTION. Paris, May 23. M. Marcel Sembat, writing in Le Humanite, says that no delusions should be cherished. The Germans, though limiting their ambitions to Irkutsk, could from there dominate the whole line to the Pacific, and could paralyse any attempted Japanese intervention. Japan's intervention is urgently necessary, and Japan is willing to begin operations the moment England and America say the word. The Russian people would accept the intervention, with guarantees that Japan was seeking neither territorial conquest nor to restore Czarism, nor to take land from the peasants.— Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. DISPOSAL OF ROYALTIES. Petrograd, May 20. The German Embassy announces that the Dowager Empress of Russia will shortly proceed to Denmark, and the Grand Duke Nicholas to Montenegro.— Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. CLEARING UP OBSCURE POINTS. Received May 27 7.50 panLondon, May 20. A Russian wireless message, referring }o the fact that Germany had agreed to form a special Commission to clear up cbscure points in connection with the Broet-litovsk jjeace treaty, states that the Foreign Commissary proposed that precedence be given to the situation in the Caucasus, the Crimea, Esthonia, and Livonia, the demarcation of the frontier (whereof determination was interrupted at Iskov, owing to Russo-German disagreement, also to the misunderstanding regarding »he war prisoners), and the fundamental principles respecting niter-economic relations.—Press Assoc. DESTROYING PROPERTY. Received May 27 7.50 p.m. Berne, May 26. Bands of Russian peasants are traversing Tchrniov, Dreschin, Volhynia, and Podolia, destroying crops and plantations and burning forests. —Reuter. ESCAPE OF RUSSIAN WAR VESSELS. Received May 27 7.60 p.m. Amsterdam, Slay 26The Cologne Gazette reports that two big Russian battleships and eight destroyers escaped from Sevastopol before the Germans occupied the town. The Germans captured the rest of the fleet.