PEASANTS' DEPREDATIONS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17326, 28 May 1918, Page 5

PEASANTS' DEPREDATIONS.

DESTROYING CROPS AND PLANTATIONS. . BERNE, May 26. (Received May 27, at 7.15 p.m.) • Knssian- peasants are traversing Tchernikov, Dieschin, Volhynia and Podolia destroying crops and plantations and burning forests. SUKHUM-KALE RECAPTURED. Reuter's Telegrams. _ . , MOSCOW. May 26. (Received May 27, at 7.15 p.m.) The Caucusus Government's forces have recaptured Sukhum-Kale (on the east coast of the Black Sea). FIGHTING IN UKRAINIA. GERMAN FORCES DEFEATED. Reuter's Telegrami MOSCOW, May 26. (Received May 27, at 7.15 p.m.) The Bolshevik paper states that the peasant insurgents in Ukrainia defeated Skoropodsky's Germo-Ukrainian, troops. The Ukrainian railwaymen struck to assist the peasants, and have been replaced by Germans. « THE BLACK SEA FLEET. NINE VESSELS ELUDE CAPTURE. Reuter's Telegrams. AMSTERDAM, May 26. (Received May 27, at 7.15 p.m.) The Cologne Gazette reports that two big Russian battleships and eight destroyers escaped from Sebastopol before the Germans occupied the town. The' Germans captured the rest of the fleet. PEASANTS' RISING SPREADING. GERMAN FORCES DEFEATED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. MOSCOW, May 26. (Received May 27, at 7.45 p.m.) The peasants' rising has spread throughout Ukrainia. The authorities despatched German troops to disarm them, but the peasants in the Nijni-Novgorod district secured artillery and machine guns and defeated the Germans. ' IN THE LION'S MOUTH. RUSSIA INCURS MORE DANGER. FURTHER PARLEYING WITH GERMANY. Australian and N.Z. Cable AwooUtion and Reutpr LONDON, May 27. (Receved May 27. at 9.40 p.m.) A Russian wireless message, referring to the fact, that Germany had agreed to form a special commission to clear the main obscure points of the Brest-Litovslc peace agreement, the foreign commissary proposed that precedence be given to the situations in the Caucasus, Crimea, Esthonia, and the Livonia, the demarcation of the frontiers, the determination of which was interrupted at Pskov owing to a Russo-German disagreement; also the misunderstandings regarding war prisoners and the fundamental principles respecting inter-economic relations.