GERMAN AIM TO DIVIDE FACTIONS IN RUSSIA.
DIFFICULTY FOUND IN MAKING GAINS AVAILABLE. Australian and N.Z. (Received 7.50 p.m.). LONDON. May 6. Recent arrivals from Russia believe that the Germans' chief aim in the north is monarchical restoration, while maintaining a separatist Republican Government in the Ukraine, a»d perpetuating the breach between the different parts of the country. The scheme, even if it be successful in Petrograd or a small part of Russia, is unlikely to be decisive over the rest of the country, for Petrograd has ceased to be the brain-centre of the country. Notwithstanding the Bolsheviks' failures they have effectively sown the doctrine of government by the people. NEW YORK, May 6. The Paris correspondent of the New York Times states that, allied officials returning from Russia take a gloomy view of the Russian situation. They point out that the one bright spot is that Germany will continue to have difficulty in capitalising her Russian success. Of the million and a-half German and Austrian prisoners in Russia, Germany will not get back more than 10 per cent, under arms. In Kieff the Bolsheviks murdered 1048 Russian officers on May Day. There were also many murders in Petrograd.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16843, 7 May 1918, Page 5
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