FIGHTING IN MOSCOW

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 203, 16 May 1918, Page 5

FIGHTING IN MOSCOW

BATTLE BETWEEN ANARCHISTS AND

BOLSIIEVIKI

MANY CASUALTIES

Petrograd, May U. A big: battle between tlio anarchists and Uio Bolshcviki is raging in Moscow. There are many casualties.—Reutor. ANARCHISTS FORCED TO SURRENDEIi. (Rcc. May 15, 7:30 p.m.) Petrograd, May 11. When tho Soviet troops surrounded tlio anarchists' headquarters in Moscow tho anarchists refusid to surrender. Aγmoural cars then bombarded them, the anarchists replying with machine-guns and grenades, but after half an hour's fight they hoisted tho white flag. Malting is being continued in other Btreots. Many guns have, been posted at tho Kremlin, whore tho Council of Commissaries is sitting.—Aue.-N.Z. Cable Aesn.

THE HEEL OF THE HUN CATALOGUE OF CRUELTIES IN OCCUPIED REGIONS. (Roc. May 15, 7 p.m.) ' London, May 14. A wireless Russian official message states: '"The Foreign Commissary has sent a message to tho Gorman Government calling attentiqu to tho terrible position oE tho peaceful population of tho occupied regions in Wbito Russia along tho line of demarcation, where thoro Jiavo been violent pogroms, tortures, executions, Ravage treatment of workers, burning of Russian villages by Gorman nud Polish troops, and tho wiping out of tho populations of whole villages with machine-guns. The Russian Government complains that persons suspected of Bolshevik sympathies are being shot or imprisoned under terrible conditions. A reign of terror exists, and is particularly bad in tho town of Minsk nnd the districts of Bobrinsk and Viborg, where maoiy hundreds lhave been slaughtered by machine-guns. The Foreign Commissary suggests the formation of Russo-Germnn commi6eione, including representatives of tho local population, to investigate these conditions.— Aue.-N.Z. Cablo Assn.-Eeuter. GRIM SATURNALIA IN FINLAND RUSSIAN PRISONERS SHOT WHOLE- . - SALE. Moscow, May 11. Official: "After tho White Guards occupied Tammerfors five hundred Russian officers and soldiers wero shot , in groups of 40 to 50 with machine-guns. A desperate and bloody battlo was fought) at La'hti, in which 4000 White Guards and Germans wero killed. Many civilians wero killed by tho German iwmbaTd-ment."—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn.-Reuter. TO BLOCK THE CATTEGAT GERMANS LAYING NEW MINEFIELDS. (Bee. May 15, 7 p.m.) Coponhngen, May U. The Germans have been busy tlio last few weeks blocking tho approaches to tho Cattegat. Extensive minefields have been laid, especially in the vicinity of Gothenburg.—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn. BRITAIN AND FINLAND CONDITIONAL ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF INDEPENDENCE. Stockholm, May 14. Jt is understood that Britain has promised provisional acknowledgment oi' Finland's independence ■until thu final peace conference, on condition that Finland releases British subjects and guarantees to maintain neutrality—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn. CISCAUCASIA DECLARES FOR INDEPENDENCE. Amsterdam, Mny U. A Constantinople telegram states that Ciscaucasia (the i;art of Caucasia north of the Caucasus Mountains) hns mado a declaration of independence.—Beutor.

VERY FORLORN HOPE UKRAINE FOOD SUPPLIES KHI GERMANY. (Bee. May 15, 7 p.m.) ' Rome, May 14. The "FopoloV Moscow correspondent reports that but o{' a million square kilometres or' grain lands in the Ukraine, only fifty thousand liavo been cultivated tihis year,'as the peasants havo refused to cultivate for tho Germans.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Aesn. ' ; Berne, May 11. 'J'ho Munich "Nachtrichten" states that enormous- aroas in tlio Ukraine, including the expropriated estates of big landholders, are untillcd, and that tho coming harvest will not yield sufficient grain for the Ukrainian population. Tho inhabitants of some of the towns already are suffering from hunger.— Aiis.-N.Z. ; Cablo Assn. POLITICS IN RUMANIA CABINET RESIGNS; Amsterdam, May 14. Berlin advices »tate that tho Marghiloman Cabinet in Rumania has icsigued.Keiiter.