RUSSIAN AFFAIRS

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16473, 17 March 1919, Page 7

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS

ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OP TROTSKY. (By Cable.—Press Association. —Copyright.) (Australian and N./j. Cable Association.) (Received March 16th, 5.5 p.m.) • AMSTERDAM, March 14. The Bolshevist commanders declare that they havo made plans for reaching Archangel by May Ist. They claim that they have reoccupied territory equal to tlio sizo of France during January and February. A Red Guard attempted to assassinate Trotsky in a railway carriage at YTtob&k, on the Petrograd Railway. The bullet pierced Trotsky's coat, but ho was not injured. Two members of liis staff were hit. RED GUARD-S REPULSED. (Received March 16th. 5.6 p.m.) NEW YORK, March 12. Despatches from Archangel say that tho Bolshevist forces fiercely attacked the village of Vistavka on the Vaga front. Although the Allies were greats ly outnumbered, the Red Guards wero repulsed with heavy losses. SHORT-LIVED MUTINY. (Renter's Telegrams.) (Received March lCth, 5.5 p.m.) HELSINGFORS. March IS. i A Bolshevist artillery division mutinied in Petrograd, refusing to go to the Baltic front. A regiment of the old Imperial Guard was ordered to suppress the mutiny, but joined the mutineers. killing several Bolshevist officials. Trotsky then rushed up the notorious Chinese Division from Moscow and quelled tho mutineers with unbridled slaughter. The remainder wero imprisoned. FAMINE AND DISEASE.

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(Received March 16th, 5.5 p.m.) WASHINGTON, March 14. Advices from Moscow state that human flesh was cold to the fitminoE'tricken population by Chinese soldiers, who were subsequently arrested. Both Moscow 'and Petrograd are entirely without fuel. The streets of Petrograd! are deserted, except for soldiers and civilians begging bread. The deaths from typhoid and smallpox in the city are estimated at 4000 daily. INFLUENZA. * THE MELBOURNE EPIDEMIC. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.] MELBOURNE. March 15. One additional death from inffuenza ib reported. (Received March lGtli, 5.5 p.m.) MELBOURNE, March I<s. Influenza cases continue to decrease. There were only six deaths yesterday. VALUE OF INOCULATION. (Received March 16th. 5.5 ji.m.) SYDNEY, March 16. Influenza, apparently assisted by the cool spell, continues to increase. The cases reported in New South Wales in: the past week totalled 97, as comparod with C 4 in the previous week. In su]>port of the value of inoculation, it i 3 stated that two well-known doctors who are conducting bat-teriologieal work used their own blcod, with the object of isolating influenza germs. Both had been inoculated, and when the germs were introduced into the blood they invariably died. They then secured the blood of a non-inr.culnted person, in which the germs flourished. A Melbourne doctor states that he has seen no pneumonia in cases infected, immediately after the first inoculation. Another says that lie has not seen a bad case in previously inoculated persons. TO THE EniTOB OF "THE PRESS." Sir, —In view of the evidence given by tne medical witnesses and the opinions expressed by them as to tho necessity of preventive being employed now that the winter months are approaching, do you not think that some simple means, accessible to all. e.g., an inhalation chamber (which all the expert evidence agrees is one of tho mcst efficacious preventives against in- ■ fluenza and measles) should ijo set up within easy reach of the public? — Yours, etc" A STITCH IN TIME.