RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 May 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

MASSES HOSTILE TO GERMANY. GERMAN" AGENTS AT WORK. TO BRING ABOUT MONARCHY. London, May 27. Tile Daily News' Petrograd correspondent nays that two marked tendencies are noticeable in Russia. Tlic masse* are becoming more anil more anti-G<-rnian. while tli« privileged classes are more eagcrlv looking to Germany to save them Irom t'te masses. Thus the Cadets in Ukraine are assisting Germany's foodI'afliersr, Skoropadskv. and the Cadets in Mo«cow are conferring with Coun: Mirhach. The oniv definite anti-German force in liiis-iia is the Soviets. The Germans daily add fuel to the peasants' antiGerman fire by a series of exasperations, eo that peasant risings occur daily, de- ;• —i: n .r larger German forces to restore order. At the same time the town population? are beiinni'ic to starve, and blame the Soviets for this. The shortly of food ia really partly due to transport difficulties and partly to the peasants hoprdinir grain. The Daily Express' Petrograd correspondent says that German circles are canvassing for the restoration of a monarchy in Russia, and suciest the Grand Duke of Mecklenburs-Sehwerin. whose mother is a Russian Grand Duchess. The Daily Chronicle's Geneva correspondent interviewed two leaders of the so-called Russian monarchist movement, whose headquarters are at Geneva, and discovered that they were merely German aeents, professing: to restore constitutional monarchy, but really aiming at dividing the Entente on the subject. AN ABSCONDING MINISTER. Amsterdam, May 27. The Berliner Tageblatt states that M. Kowoloaki. former Minister of Agriculture :n the Ukraine, has disappeared with five million roubles supplied by Germany for the purpose of organising the supply of cereals.