RUSSIA. ITALY. FRANCE. CHINA. PALESTINE.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 June 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

ITALY.

FRANCE.

CHINA.

PALESTINE.

SILVER LINING IN CLOUD.

GERMANY ENTICED INTO QUAGMIRE. Received June 2, 5.5 p.m. London, June 1. The Daily Express' Petrograd correspondent advises England to watch for the silver lining in the cloud. He asserts that the Bolshevik Fabian tactics are already enticing Germany into a quagmire. He adds that although Russia is militarily out of the war, she is still playing a part. He emphasises Germany's trouble in dealing with the irreconcilable peasantry and mutinous spirit of the Polish troopa.—Press Assoc. REORGANISING THE ARMY. NUCLEUS OF TRUSTWORTHY FORCE FOMEB. Received June 2, 5.5 p.m. London, June 1. The Morning /Post's Petrograd correspondent states that although the White Guards, who are the German advance guards, are reported at a frontier station a score of miles away, Petrograd remains quiet. He must not say overmuch about the political construction, but the power which rules Russia has quietly begun already and progressed with the reorganisation of the fighting force. Generals of known capacity have been appointed to command districts into which the country has been divided. The commanding general appoints commanders, and so on down to the ranks. Only long service soldiers known to their officers are admitted to the ranks. Thus the nucleus of an absolutely trustworthy fighting force of half a million men is already forming, and perhaps has been formed.—Press Association, DEPRIVING GERMANY OF CROPS. EXASPERATION INCREASING IN UKRAINE. Received June 2, 11.50 p.m. Amsterdam, June 2. Ukraine peasants are cutting down vast aims of green crops to prevent the harvest reaching Germany.

Herr Erzberger, writing in the Vo8« sisehe Zeitung, states that exasperation against tihe Germans is increasing throughout the Ukraine. Railway workers are planning a general strike, and peasants are refusing to deliver grain So German soldier dare appear in Kieff unarmed- Soma have already been shot down.—Press Assoc. THE KRONSTADT FORTS. SOME OOaUPIED BY GERMANS. Received June 2, 1150 pm. Petrograd, June 1. The newspaper Pravda states that the Germans have occupied certain otf the Kronstadt forts.—'Press Assoc.

TURKEY TO ASSIST AUSTRIA. Received June 2, 5.5 p.m. Rome, May 31. The newspaper Corriere d'ltalia states the result of Emperor Karl's visit to Constantinople is that Turkey is sending troops to assist Austria against the Italians.—Press Association.

THE LONG RANGE GUN.

EIGHTEEN KILLED AND WOUNDED. Received June 2, 5.5 p.m. 'Paris, May 31. Eighteen were killed and wounded by the shelling of the long range gun in a Corpus Christi procession. A shell' struck the church.—Press Association,

LOAN FROM JAPAN. TOBACCO PRIVILEGES TO BE . GRANTED. A Received June 2, 5,5 p.m. New York, May 31. The New York Times' Pekin correspondent states that the Chinese Government is negotiating for a large loan from Japan, with tobacco privileges as security. It.is apprehended this will infringe the rights of other nationsPress Assoc.

BRITISH LINE ADVANCED. Received June 3, 12.45 a.m. London, June 1. Palestine official: We advanced our line to a maximum depth of one and three-qnarter miles on a front of four and a half miles in the coastal area south and south-west of Tabsar, capturing two posts, and repulsing several counterattacks with considerable enemy losses. The Arabs renewed their attacks on the Hedjaz railway, norl.li of Maan, taking 125 prisoners, and effecting important demolitions.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc. and Reuter.