FAMINE AND PESTILENCE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17111, 17 March 1919, Page 5

FAMINE AND PESTILENCE.

INROADS MADE IN RUSSIA. REPORTED CANNIBALISM. CITIES WITHOUT FUEL. (Received 5.5 p.m.) Router. WASHINGTON. Mar. 15. Advices from Moscow state that human flosh has been sold to the famine-stricken population by Chinese soldiers, who were subsequently arrested. Both Moscow and Petrograd are entirely without fuel. The streets of Petrograd are deserted except for soldiers and civilians begging broad. The deaths from typhoid and smallpox in the city are estimated at 4000 a day. BOLSHEVIK TROOPS MUTINY ' RUTHLESS SUPPRESSION. (Received 5.5 p.m> Router. HELSINGFORS. Mar. 15. A Bolshevik artillery division mutinied in Petrograd, refusing to go to the Baltic front. A regiment of the old Imperial Guard was ordered to suppress the mutiny, but joined the mutineers, killing several Bolshevik officials. Trotzky then rushed tho notorious Chinese division from Moscow, and quelled the mutineers with unbridled slaughter. The remainder were imprisoned. ATTACK MADE ON TROTZKY. SHOTS FIRED IN A TRAIN, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 5.5 p.m.) AMSTERDAM. Mar. 15. Members of the Red Guard at- 1 tempted to assassinate Trotzky in a railway carriage on the Vitebsk Petrograd railway. A bullet pierced Trotzky's hat, but he was not injured. Two membors of his staff were hit. ALLIED LINES ASSAILED.: REPULSE WITH HEAVY LOSS Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, Mar. 15. Despatches from Archangel say that Bolshevik forces nercely attacked the village Vistavka, on the Vaga front Although the Allies were greatly outnumbered the Red Guards were repulsed with heavy losses. A. and N.Z. AMSTERDAM. Mar, 14. The Bolshevik commanders declare that they have made plans for reaching Archangel on May 1. They claim to have reoccupied territory equal in area to France during January and February. \