RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVIII, Issue 18412, 19 May 1920, Page 7

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

THE NOVOROSSISK REFUGEES. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received May 19, 12.5 a.m.) LONDON, May 17.

Tho "Daily Chronicle's "'Constantinople correspondent describes the evacuation of Novorossisk, on the Black Sea, where ten thousand persons had been living in railway trucks and others were herded ten in a room in shops and offices, with typhus raging. Among ttio dead are Prince Eugene Trubetakoy, a. well-known, philosopher, who just before his death said: '' For the first time- in my life I cannot see the next step." Among the last refugees to depart was n lone woman, simply dressed, undistinguishablo from the_otlier wretched refugees that watched the fading land with peculiar intensity. She was the Grand Duchess Olga, the youngest sister ( of <tlio Czar and the last of the Romanoffs to leave Russia.. The Moscow wireless silence wbb due to a great fire in an ammunition depot, which seriously threatened tho station.

BOLSHEVIKS INVADE PERSIA. TEHERAN, May 18. Bolshevik forces invaded Persia from Azerbaijan. They declare that it is their intention to expel tho British from Persia.