RUSSIA'S PROBLEMS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17327, 29 May 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA'S PROBLEMS

SWINDLING THE HUNS. A UKRAINIAN ABSCONDER. Australian and N.Z. Cablo Association. AMSTERDAM, May 27. The Berliner Tageblatt states that Kowoloski, former Minister of Agriculture in Ukrainia, has disappeared with five million roubles supplied by Germany for the purpose of organising a supply of cereals. A TANGLED SITUATION. SOVIETS DEFINITELY ANTIGERMAN. LONDON, May 27. Tho Daily News Petrograd correspondent says that two marked tendencies are noticeable in Russia—tho masses are becoming more and more anti-Gorman, while the privileged classes are more eagerly looking to Germany to eave them from the masses. Tliue the Cadets in Ukrainia are assisting Germany's food gatherer, Skoropadsky; and tJie Cadets in Moscow are conferring with Count Mirbach. The only definite anti-German force in Russia is the Soviets. The Germans daily add fuel to the peasants' anti-German fire by a series of exasperations, so that peasant risings occur daily, demanding larger German forces to restore order. At the same time the town populations are beginning to starve, and blame the Soviets for their plight. The shortage of food is really partly due to the transport difficulties and partly to the peasante hoarding grain. PROPOSED RESTORATION OF* MONARCHY. A GERMAN AGITATION. LONDON, May 27. The Daily Express Petrograd correspondent saj's tnat German circles are canvassing a restoration of the monarchy in Russia, and suggest the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, whose mother is a Russian Grand Duchess. The Daily Chronicle Geneva correspondent has interviewed two leaders of the so-called Russian monarchist movement, whose headquarters are in Geneva. He discovered that they are merely German agents, professing "to wish to restore the constitutional monarchy, but really aiming to divide the Entente Powers on the matter