RUSSIA'S PROBLEMS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17323, 24 May 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA'S PROBLEMS

WHILE THE COUNTRY IS STARVING. BOLSHEVIKS REJOICING. Auitrali&n and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, May 22. .The Daily Express Petrograd correspondent states that the Bolsheviks celebrated the Russian Mav Day as a festival of victory over Capitajism. The celebrations were of the strangest character, and included the daubing of the Marinsbv Palace, the Winter Palace, and the Government offices with Cubist designs and the erection of Cubist picture galleries in the Nevsky Prospect. Allegorical desicrns were shown representing the progress" of the proleatnat, and these included a picture of the Kaiser as a skeleton of Death. Russia 5 ' 76(1 fl ° Were of revolutionary Ihe celebrations in Moscow included the wholesale removal of all monuments erected in memory of the monarchs and 2 Czars' times. Onlv the OKobeloff monument was spared, which is a new statue, representing the revolution betore Skobeloff. MORE GERMAN FRIGHTFULNESS. WANTON ATTACKS ON SHIPS. RUSSIA BEGS FOR PERMISSION. Austrah'an and N.Z. Cable Association and Reuter. . LONDON, May 22. (Received May 23, at 7.15 p.m.) A Russian wireless message complains that Germany is not only attacking Russian warships in the Black Sea, but submarines are shelling Russian ships even with wounded aboard. The Russian Ambassador at Berlin has been requested to inquire whether sailinc .ships may proceed to Norway for fish without fear of capture. FLOUR SHORTAGE IN PETROGRAD. CADETS FAVOUR ALLIES. Reuter's Telegrams. • , PETROGRAD, May 22. May 23, at 7.15 p.m.) Ihe distribution of bread in the city has ceased, and has been replaced by potatoes, flour being unobtainable. A great fire is reported at the dock and station at Archangel. The Central Committee of the Cadet party has passed a resolution in favour of continued loyalty to the Allies and opposirig asking for German help. Several of Genera] Dutoff's anti-Bol-shevik Cossacks have entered the Government of Samara. [The "Government" of Samara is a on the left, or eastern, side of the Volga Raver. It contains several populous towns, and is a large grain-pro-ducing conntiy It has a mixed population, chiefly Great ' Russians.] PARTITIONING POLAND. FLAGRANT VIOLATION OF LIBERTY. . a Rputer's Telegram*. . LONDON, May 22. .(Received May 23, at 11.5 p m.) An authoritative Polish source states that Austria and Germany have agreed that Austria shall take a large portion of Russian Poland. Prussia intends to seize the other parts, but the vast majority of the Polish nation demands a united in dependent Poland free from German and Magyar domination, and including the Pol-,* territories of Silesia, Posen, and Dantzig. '