RUSSIAN CHAOS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17215, 18 January 1918, Page 5

RUSSIAN CHAOS

THE TEUTON DEMANDS. ! ——— PAN-GERMANS RULE THE SITUATION. Austratian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, January 16. The Daily Telegraph's Rotterdam correspondent says that events at Berlin and Brest-Litovsk show that the annexationists are complete masters of the situation. A mere hint of tho fall of Hindenburg produced a flood of telegrams containing resolutions demanding a German peace from all over the empire. The Reichstag is helpless throughout the crisis, and has left the Government a free hand to deal with Russia. Admiral von Tirpitz, speaking at Berlin, said: "Wβ need only hold out in order to obtain a peace in accordance with our wishes. Hindenburg and Ludendorff •will secure our interests in the west, a surrender of which would ruin Germany's political and economic future."

DON DISTRICTS INTERESTS.

APPEAL TO UKRAINIANS.

COPENHAGEN, January 16. The Politiken's Berlin correspondent states that General Kaledin has requested the Ukrainian delegates at Brest-Litovsk to watch over the interests of the Don districts, adding: "If "Dkraina has reached an agreement with the Central Powers the Cossacks at the front will be demobilised."

RUSSIA'S NECESSITIES.

APPEAL TO THE CITIZENS.

Admiralty, per Wireless Press.

LONDON, January 16.

A Russian appeal has been issued to the whole nation, which says: "Immediate help is necessary. The army is perishing of famine; provisioning has ceased, and several regiments are without bread, and their horses are without fodder. Every citizen of Russia, do your duty and "work."

The appeal directs the Council of the Soviets to do everything necessary, even making work compulsory, to ensure the feeding of the armies. It says that the attempts by the railwnymen and others to capture military food will be severely punished.

LENIN'S UNPOPULARITY. Australian and N.Z. Cablo Association. LONDON, January 16. An unconfirmed report is current of an unsuccessful attempt to shoot Lenin in Petrograd.