RUSSIAN MASSES BECOMING ANTI-GERMAN.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 126, 28 May 1918, Page 5

RUSSIAN MASSES BECOMING ANTI-GERMAN.

PRIVILEGED CLASSES SUPPORTING THE INVADER. (Received 12.15 p.m.) LONDON. May 27. The "Daily News" Petrograd correspondent 6ays that two marked tendencies are noticeable in Russia.; the masses arc becoming more and more anti-German, while the privileged classes are mure eagerly looking to Germany to save thorn from the masses. Thus the Cadets in the Ukraine are assisting Germany's food gatherer, Skoropadeki, and the Cadets in Moscow are conferring with Count Mirbach, the German Ambassador. The only definite-anti-German force in Russia is the Soviets. Tlie Germans daily add fuel to the peasantf' anti-German fire by a aeries of exasperations, so that peasant risinge oct'iir daily, demanding larger German forces to restore order. At the same time the town populations are beginning to starve, and blame the Soviets for the shortagle of food, which is really partly due to transport difficulties and partly to the peasants hoarding grain. Tho "Daily Express" T'etrogra'd correspondent says that German eirels>.« are canvassing for tlip restoration of the monarchy in Russia, and suggest the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwexin, whose mother is a Russian Grand Duchess. The "Daily Chronicle" Geneva correspondent interviewed two leaders of the so-called Russian monarchist movement, whose headquarters are at Geneva. He discovered that they are merely German agents, professing to restore the constitutional monarchy, but really aiming to divide the Entente, over that policy.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.) The "lierlincr Tagcblatt" states that Kowoloski. former Minister for Agriculture in the Ukraine, disappeared with five million roubles, supplied by Gerraany for the purpose of organising the supply of cereals.— (A. and N.Z.)