RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17702, 31 January 1918, Page 5

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

THE ARMISTICE

MORE GERMAN BAD FAITH. TRANSPORTING TROOPS WESTWARD. WASHINGTON, January 29. Til© United States General Staff announces that Germany is breaking the Russian armistico pledges by transporting troops from the east westward, owing to the Germans’ fear of the effect of Russian propaganda among the troops. ENEMY DELEGATES ARRIVE AT BREST LITOVSK. RUSSIANS TAKING FIRM STAND. (Received January 30, 8.15 p.m.) AMSTERDAM, January 29. Count Ozernfn and Baron von Kuhlnmnn have arrived at Brest Litovsk. M. Trotsky, addressing the Soviet at Petrograd, said that he doubted whether the negotiations would have any result, as the Central Powers’ delegates represented only the capitalistic interests. The Russian delegates had decided to stick to their point. RUMANIAN PREMIER. RESIGNS. Reuter'* Toleg-rams. AMSTERDAM, January 29. ’ A Berlin telegram states that tho Rumanian Premier (M. Brantianu)/ha» resigned, General Averescu succeeding;

PERSIAN TREATIES. RUSSIAN AND TURKISH OFFERS. LONDON, January 29. Persian advices state that owing to tho Russian and Turkish Governments announcing their willingness to withdraw their troops, Persia has declared void tho treaty of February, 1823, and other .treaties, which Persia, yielding to violences and menaces of occupation, was forced to accept in the latter part of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries.

EPIDEMICS RAMPANT. WHOLESALE ADULTERATION OF . FOOD. “ The Times ’’ Service. PETROGRAD, January 20. Epidemics, as a result of malnutrition, are decimating the population. Spotted typhus, more dangerous than plague, is rampant. The Bolsheviks having abolished tho public health bureaux there has been no registration of diseases. Few doctors remain and ignorant doorkeepers and cooks are commanding hospitals. Food is frightfully adulterated, and there is an excessivo quantity of straw chaff in bread, of which only Jib is irregularly distributed. In Finland bread is made of moss and sawdust, mixed with small quantities of flour.

CIVIL WAR GENERAL. FIGHTING IN FlNLAND(Received January 30, 8.15 p.m.) LONDON, January 29. Tho “Daily Chronicle’s” correspondent at Stockholm says that a civil war is in progress in Finland. The Red Guards organised a revolution and overthrew tho existing Government, of the Diet, and established a proletariat dictator, with tho assistance of the Bolshevik Government. A great fight ia proceeding at Viborg, where there has boen much bloodshed. The Red Guards occupied the railway station at Helsingfors and cut the telegraph cables. All foreign Consuls have left town. United Service. (Received January 30, 8.15 p.m.) LONDON, January 29. Civil war is now general in Russia. The Bolsheviks have inaugurated strong military campaigns in Finland, Bessarabia and tho Ukraine. Troops and guns have been moved south from the front. Tho Bo'isheviks apparently aim at tho immediate overthrow of all the bourgeoisie Govednments in old Russia and Rumania. There is a possibility of tho Red Guard army making foreign campaigns. . ! Russian warships dominated tielsing-1 fors during the capture by the Red Guards. It is reported that ■ several Swedes were murdered. The whole of eastern Finland is in the-.possession of the Red Guards* Reinforcements are arriving with orders to support tho proletariat against tho upper classes* The Rumanian Legation in Petr©grad received twelve hours’ notice to quit Russia. Tho Bolsheviks assort that tho Ukrainian Government has resigned, and that, the Bolsheviks, with tho 'loft section of the Socialists, have formed an administration, which has recalled the Rada’s representatives from Brest Litovsk, replacing them with Bolsheviks- j

WOMEN TERRORISTS AGAINST BOLSHEVIKS. (Received January 31, 12-50 a-m.) BERNE, January 30. _ Russia’s Terrorist Committee, consisting exclusively of women, sentenced Lenin, Trotsky and twenty other leaders of the Bolsheviks to death. UKRAINIANS IN LUTSK. (Received January 30, 9.40 p.m.) ' LONDON, January 29. It is reported from Kiev that Ukrainian troops havo occupied Lutsk, electing tho Bolshevik army, after three days severe fighting with heavy losses. BOLSHEVIKS AND RUMANIA DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS SEVERED. United Service. PETROGRAD, January 29. The Bolsheviks announce that diplomatic relations with Rumania have been broken off. BOLSHEVIKS SEIZE RUMANIAN GOLD. '* The Times ” Service. LONDON, January 29. The Bolsheviks seized the Rumanian gold reserve at Moscow and expelled the Rumanian Ambassador and staff. Russia has promised to hand over the gold to the Rumanian people. GENERAL TSCHERBATSHEV’S ACTIONS. ■ (Received January 30 8.15 p.m.) PETROGRAD, January 29. The Bolsheviks have declared tho Russian General Tseherbatshev, commanding in Bessarabia, to bo tho people’s enemy, and have deprived him of the laws of protection- General Tscherbatshev promised to assure the Rumanian army’s food supplies. ADVANCE INTO BESSARABIA. (Received January 30, S.lo p.m ) LONDON, January 29. The ‘‘Daily Chronicle’s” Petrograd correspondent says that it is reported that tho Rumanians have advanced to Bessarabia, have_ captured Ugoni, and havo besieged Kishinev. The Moldavian Regional Council hag declared Bessftrabia autonomous. 'Lie council announced a rupture with Rumania. A report was received, dated January 27’, stating that tho Rumanian Legation and all the Rumanian agents will be sent abroad.

CENTRAL POWERS AND RUMANIA. (Received January 30, 815 p.m.) LONDON, January 29. liaparanda messages state that negotiations are proceeding between Rumania and tho Central Powers for a separate peace on condition that Rumania gives Bulgaria the Dobrudja and gets Bessarabia instead.