BOLSHEVIK SEIZURE OF ROUMANIAN SHIPS.
ALLIED AMBASSADORS LEAVING PETROGRAD. Australian and N.Z. (Received 5.6 p.m.) PETROGRAD, Feb. 1. The Revolutionary Committee has seized 40 Roumanian steamers and several warships at Black Sea ports. Advices from the Caucasus state that plague has started in the Crimea. A republic has been established in the Crimea, the entire population acknowldging its authority. LONDON, Feb. 1. It is rumoured that the allied Ambassadors are leaving Petrograd owing to the Bolshevik attitude towards Roumania. This astonishes and dismays the Bolsheviks, whose view is that Roumania is on the verge of a badly-needed revolution. Consequently, the landowners are preparing to seize the Russian province of Bessarabia, with the collusion of the Bessarabian propertied classes, in order to compensate Roumania for the loss of Dobrudja when she accepts peace from Austria and Germany. The Bolsheviks are astonished at the allies supporting the Roumanian propertied classes, who, they say, are actually working in the interests of the Central Empires.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16765, 4 February 1918, Page 5
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