RUSSIA.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 30 May 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA.

BOLSHEVIST LEADERS FLEE

- FJtOM PETROGRAD

RECOGNITION OF KOLTCHAK

* KERENSKY PROTESTS.

BY CABLE— PRESS/ ASSOCIATION— COPYEIGHT

(Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.)

LONDON; May 29. Stockholm telegrams state that Sir Hubert Gough, in charge of the British Military Mission in Finland, announces that complete arrangements } have been made to feed the people in Petrograd directly the city is captured. The Bolshevist leaders have fled, leaving the town in the hands of leaderless soldiers. ~ "•■-,,., Street fighting has commenced between the workmen of Petrograd and the Letts and Chinese, who now constrol thecity! "' ":"'"■;■ ';H. PARIS, May 21. Kerensky and seven other members -j}t the first Russian National Assembly and the officials of two other republican societies have issued a manifesto protesting- against the recognition of General Koltchak or Allied intervention in' Russia until asked for by a government willing to reconstitute the Assembly. * ;•