UNHAPPY PETROGRAD.
LONDON, February 18. (Received February 19, at 8.50 a.m.) Telegrams from Petrograd disclose that the situation remains unchanged. Famine is imminent, and there is bitter distress among all classes. Typhus has appeared in' Petrograd, and an outbreak of plague in Southern Russia. NEW YORK, February 18. (Received February 19, at 9.50 a.m.) Advices . from Petrograd state that nearly a hundred persons were killed during tho rioting in Petrograd, where anarchy still prevails. The White Guards at Petchersk mastered 1,400 Red Guards.
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Evening Star, Issue 16662, 19 February 1918, Page 6
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83UNHAPPY PETROGRAD. Evening Star, Issue 16662, 19 February 1918, Page 6
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