RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 August 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

FOOD RIOTS AT PETROGRAD*

ffIKBOE FIGHTING. Received Aug. 20, 5.5 p.m. Amsterdam, Aug. 20. A report from Berlin indicates terrible food riots at Petrograd. Starved Workers, after taking part in a procession, demonstrated at the Smolny Institute, shouting: "Away with the Germans. Away with the Kremlin!" They encountered some. Lettish guards, and in tiir- fierce fighting which followed hundreds were killed and wounded on both sides. Martial law has been proclaimed. —Times Service.

CZECHOSLOVAKS RETIRE

BOLSHEVIKS IN .REAR OF ALLIES

Received Aug. 21, 5.5 p.m.

Tientsin, Aug- 20. Advanced Czech forces on the Usuri front are meeting with desperate resistance from German-led Bolsheviks, and have been compelled to retire towards the main body.

A force of Bolsheviks has appeared in the rear of the Allied advanced posts on Jsuri. Tin's may cause a temporary retirement.

Japanese forces have teen landed at Nikolaievsk to protect their nationals.— Presa Assoc.

THE DON COSSACKS,

SEEK AID QJIROM GERMANY,

Received Aug. 21, 7-15 p.m. Copenhagen, Aug. 20. The Duke of Leuehtenberg, formerly the Czar's adjutant, has arrived in Berlin with a letter from the Cossack Genera! Krasnow to the Kaiser, asking for assistance against the Soviet Government. The Don Republic desires Germany to recognise its independence. German newspapers deprecate the request, on the ground that the time is inopportune to intervene in Russian internal, affairs.—Press Assoc.

JAPANESE LAND AT AMUR

FIERCE FIGHTING Vladivostock, Aug. 20. A contingent of Japanese marines has disembarked on. the Amur, for the purpose of protecting Japanese residents. Fierce fighting between the Czechoslovaks and the Bolsheviks on the Usuri front resulted in the retirement of the Czecho-Slovak outposts.—Renter.

CHINESE DEFENCE,

AGAINST INVASION BY WAR PRISONERS.

Washington, August 20. Official advices say that the Chinese Government has sent a large number of troops to the Siberian border to prevent the invasion of Chinese territory by former German, Austrian, and Hungarian prisoners of war who have joined the bolsheviks against the Czecho-Slovaks in the Trans-Baikal region.

OOUNTER-HEVOLUTIONASY PLOT.

London, Aug- 20. The Daily News Stockholm correspondent saya that Moscow is ful of rumors of the counter-revolutionary effort about August 20. It is described as an officers' plot. It is stated that many monarchists are, involved. The time was clioscn to correspond with the period of greatest starvation, 'but the Soviets are extremely efficient at dealing with such plots Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.