RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 January 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA.

I REPORTED COUNTER-* ; REVOLUTION. , STARTED IN PETROGRAU Received Jan. 18, 5.6 p.m. New York, Jan. 17. i It is reported that a counter-ievolu-'tion has started in PetrosracL—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assoc. HUNGER RIOTS. PEOPLE ASKING TO BE SHOTWHOLE CITY WITHOUT BREAD. Received Jan. 19, 11.45 p.m. " Stockholm, Jan 15. The Aftonblad's Helsingfor's correspondent states that serious hunger riots occurred in Petrograd, the streets being crowded with people snouting for bread Bolshevists, chiefly Letts and Chinese, ate firing on tk> txowds. Some of the starving people art' ibpggin? to bo shot. Thtvlkls }:r,y is without bread.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assoc.

RUSSIANS JOIN FORCES. TO DEFEAT BOL&HEYSM. Received Jan. 20, 1.16 a-m. London. Jan. 17. The Russian delegation were sympathetically received at the political Government quarters. For the first time, ail the leading Russians of every shade of opinion in Britain, France, and Russia, excepting the extreme Bight and Left Wings, have sunk thou' political differences in the patriotic determination to exterminate Bolshevism and enable Russia to express its free-will. This de mands that an Allied pronowicemeuc place Bolshevism outside the pal© of society, material assistance to arm the Russian armies (a quarter of a million under General Kolchank end a similar number under General Deniken), sending a small Allied detachment from th<* Black S*a to Ukraine to maintain order while the crops are sown. It. 13 anticipated that when the forces of General Kolchank and Genera*" Dwiken junction ihe collapse of Bolshevism launt speedily follow An instance of Bolshevik (errorism ij supplied at Riga. When British pun fir; wrecked an important bridge. Hie Bolsheviks seized 6P nearby residents, cut off their noses and ears, and left them dvin!» in the snow, where they were found by the British lanHing pajff.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable AssocBOLSHEVIKS ENTER MITAU. Received Jan. 20, 1.15 a.m. Amsterdam, Jan. 13. The Bolsheviks have entered Milan.— Aua.-NJS. Cable Assoc.