RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 September 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

THE REVOLT IN THE UKRAINE^ SANGUINARY MGHTING. GERMAN GARRISON WIPEDOUT. .;. Received Sept. C, 7.35 p.m. Copenhagen, Sept. 5. The Isvestia states, that the Ukrainian revolutionaries have taken Nijni-Novgo-rod and other cities, also the town of TachernolT, where they killed the whole German garrison of 1500, but retired when German reinforcements arrived. Sanguinary fighting occurred in ' the provinces of Poltava, Tsehernigoff and Kieff, where the revolutionaries number 30,000. The Ukrainian authorities in many places fled. .. The Hetman (General Skoropadsky) has arrived at Berlin and visited the Kaiser.—Reuter. BRITISH REPRISALS. London,. Sept. 5. Owing to the Bolsheviks murdering and mutilating Captain Cromie, and arresting British citizens aged from. IS to 4u, t!Je British Government has arrested M. Litvinoff and his staff. Captain Cromie commanded submarine 1!) in the Baltic in 1015, and. destroyed the German cruiser Undine and other vessels. He was also responsiblc-for the destruction of the British submarine flotilla in the Baltic when the Germans got possession of the Russian fleet. —Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. BOLSHEVIKS ATTACK BRITISH CONSULATE. New York. Sept. 4. The Bolsheviks attacked the British Consulate at Moscow.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.