RUSSIA'S PROBLEMS
LIBERATED PRISONERS FROM GERMANY. LOOTING AS THEY TRAVEL. COPENHAGEN, November 26. The situation on the German eastern front is desperate. More than half a million German soldiers are marching in snow and mud to reach any railway station. Meanwhile thousands of liberated Russian prisoners from Germany are monopolising the railway trains and rolling stock. The Russians are foodless, and have insufficient clothes, and are plundering the food stores as they go along. Great panic exists all along the routes. —A. and N.Z. Cable.
BOLSHEVISTS INVADE ESTHON3A. NEW YORK, November 26. The Bolshevists have invaded Estlionia. —Times. ESCAPED FROM BOLSHEVISTS. REFUGEES REACH VLADIVOSTOK. NEW YORK, November 26. from Vladivostock say that 1321 survivors, composed of former Bolshevist prisoners and refugees, have arrived there after a six "weeks' train journey across Siberia under most terrible conditions._ All were half-starved, and many are dying, while 800 died en Toute, of whom some were shot by Bolshevists. Disease and exposure killed many.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17484, 28 November 1918, Page 5
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