RUSSIA.
VARIOUS REPORTS.
COMPULSORY SERVICE DECREE
IMPENDING
ANTI-SOVIET RISING IN
CAUCASUS
(Reuter Service.) (Received March 28, 9.15 a.m.) PETROGRAD, March 27. The Soviet troops have recaptured "Kherson and Nicolaiefi. The Germans liave occupied Krementchug. The People's Commissaries are removing the ex-Tsar and his family to the Ural region.
Trotsky is appealing to the population to co-operate in the organisation of a Red Army, and announces that a decree is impending for enforcing universal service and calling up ex-officers •as instructors.
The Chechen tribes, under Russian ■officers, have risen against the Soviet's authority in the Caucasus.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 28 March 1918, Page 8
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95RUSSIA. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 28 March 1918, Page 8
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