RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16220, 24 May 1918, Page 7

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

(By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyrigkt.) (Australian and X.Z. Cable Association.)

(Rcutcr'B Telegrams.) (Received- Mar 23rd. 7.15 p.m.) LONDON, May 22. A Russian wireless message complains that Germany is not only attacking Russian warships in the Black Sea, but submarines arc shelling RusFian ships, even those with wounded aboard. The Russian Ambassador at Berlin has been requested to enquire whether sailing ships may proceed to Norway for fish without fear of capture. CReuter'a Telegram*.) (Received May 23rd. 7.10 p.m.) PETROGRAD, May 22. The distribution of bread in the city has ceased and has been replaced by potatoes, flour being unobtainable. A great fire is reported to have broken out in the dock and station at Archangel. The Central Committee of the Cadet party passed a resolution in favour of continued loyaltv to the Allies and opposing asking for German help. Several of General Dutoff's antiBolshevik Cossacks have entered the Government at Samara. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, May 22. The "Daily Express's" Petroc;rad correspondent states that the Bolsheviks celebrated Russian May Day as a festival of victory over capitalism. The celebrations were of the strangest character, and included the daubing ot the Maringjiy Palace, the Winter Palace, and Jhe Government offices with cubist designs, and the erection of a cubist picture in the galleries in the Nevsky Prospect. Allegorical designs representing the progress of the proletariat included a picture of the Kaisor as the Skeleton of Death, scything the red flowers _of revolutionary Russia. The celebrations in Moscow included the wholesale removal of all monuments erected in memory of monarchs and heroes of the times of the Czars. Only the Skoboleff monument was spared, which is n new statue representing the revolution before Skoboleff.