ARMY IN RUSSIA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17699, 28 January 1918, Page 5

ARMY IN RUSSIA.

DISCIPLINE COLLAPSES. (Received January 27, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON. January 26. The “Daily Chronicle’s” Petrograd correspondent says that, returning officers from the south-west front state that the Austrian army is demoralised, and is in a state of complete collapse. The discipline is like the Russian. United Service. (Received January 27, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, January 26. The “Daily Mail’s” Petrograd correspondent says that tho nows from the Austrian front reveals an increasing lack of discipline and widespread fraternising. Officers are defied and tho soldiers are demanding peace. It is reported that the discontent is spreading to the German fronts. IN GERMANY. PEACE DEMONSTRATION. COPENHAGEN, January 25. Peaco demonstrators broke uj> the Fatherland Party's meetings at Frank-fort-on-Mnin, shouting “Long live Freedom and Peace,” and singing the “ Marseillaise.” THE SUPPRESSION OF “ VORWAERTS.” HERR IBERT’S VIOLENT SPEECH. United Service. AMSTERDAM, January 25. “Vorwaorts” reports that Herr Ibert, addressing the Reichstag Main Committee, violently condemned the suppression of the paper for criticising von Hoffner and reporting a general strike, of which all the world was aware. Herr Ibert added that the German proletariat saluted the strikers and Labour must convince the German workers where it was necessary to use their power to combat fully all efforts designed to prevent an early peaco based on conciliation and right. RIOTS IN BERLIN. MOBS SHOUT FOR PEACE. United Service. (Received Januaav 27, 5.5 p.m.) AMSTERDAM, January 25. There 'was severe rioting in Berlin, mobs shouting for peace.

NAVAL MUTINY. A DESERTER’S STORY. Reuter’* Telegrams. (Received January 27, 11.50 p.m.) AMSTERDAM, January 27. A German naval lieutenant who deserted from Kiel has m rived in Holland. He says that three weeks ago the crews of mine-sweeping trawlers, who were badly handled in a fight with the British, returned to Hamburg, and ’were ordered to resume duty within an hour. They mutinied and threw an officer into the water, allowing him to drown- An armed motor launch machine-gunned the. mutineer:;, killing forty-foui and ' wounding seventy-three. The remainder were court-martialled and heavily sentenced.