BITTER REALISATION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16798, 14 March 1918, Page 6

BITTER REALISATION.

- INDIGNATION IN RUSSIA.

GERMANB RESTORING OLD ORDER. --, . ' ' "''* LONDON, Mar. 6. -The Times correspondent at. Petrograd States that the Bolshevik visionaries . are now thoroughly'awake, and bitterly realise the severity arid' humiliation of the German terms, Moscow is increasingly . becoming the centre of resistance, new hopes, and desperate schemes. Local : Soviets , all over. the country are pouring in furious ■ protests against annexations. r lf another anti-climax does not follow it seems improbable that the treaty will be ratified.... ' While a Bolshevik delegation was proceeding to = Brest-Litovsk, claiming to represent the Ukraine, the Germans detained them for 36 hours at Pskoffyand then turned them back. General Hoffmann telegraphed that the Central Powers would only recognise the old Rada. The delegation has issued a fierce' proclamation, pointing out that it was now evident that < the Germans, through intermediary hirelings, intended to rob the resources of * and politically enslave Ukraine. The correspondent states that tho commissaries are at boiling point. Their ac- . tivity contrasts curiously with the public's apathy, for even the German bombs did 'not disturb them. ■,'. It is clear that the bellicose Socialist revolutionaries dominate the Smolny Institute. ' Mr. Phillips Price, correspondent of tho Manchester Guardian in Russia, says the systematic re-establishment of the bourgeois government, 'the restoration of estates, and the elimination of the revolutionaries has begun in the annexed territories. This indicates ono of the definite aims of the German policy. The peasants in many districts did not resist the advance. ' They worked on, desiring only to he left alone. Thoy wen given full freedom of movement. ■<-. A meaage from Amsterdam states that the German press greets the Russian peace as a master-stroke. Tho Kaiser's telegram to the Chancellor has been placarded everywhere in Berlin. FJags are waving. The schools will have a holiday to-morrow.