SITUATION IN RUSSIA.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14610, 21 May 1918, Page 3

SITUATION IN RUSSIA.

GERMANS PUSH ON/ REGARDLESS OF PROMISES. STATE OF SIEGE DECLARED AT KIEFF. (Admiralty Intercepts.— Wireless Press.) . LONDON, May 19. A Russian official report points out that the Germans, despite 1 the agreement for a., cessation of hostilities, are still engaged m military operations m the Don regiou. The . Government has commur.icated with General Oirbach, pointing put that there was no justification for refusing an, armistice, and .; requesting Jjeneral Oirbach to, expedit^'- his' .reply with a view', to restoring pj|ageful conditions. . . ... The People's Commissaries have sent a message to the Provincial Councils ordering compliance -within .a . jveek with jthe- deci'ee for the creation of, a strong united Red tj Army to. defend, .the public frcjm internal and external enemies, i Australian and N<Z. Cable Association .j „ :... i; . „. BER:NE,.-.May 19. "» Several h^ye, ..been made of latj? at K^eff , against ' the , occupying au r bhoritiie^, ,a;id .'fighting,,, has ocqurrpd, ' '..-. fl ":,V^.;| .!,. „"' ; _ .... • ,. . .^The "German Conmiand, m conjunction y/jvti, (3o\ r^r.nm'^nt, decre)ed; i a, ; state^of '^iege, , .and . it , f arrested many inem.bers',pf the reyojjutiojaary cora;mittee )i and;,.sen^ tjf},ehi,'. i foi;^J, ] rial ,by the military coijf ts. i "V . .. ~, .' .' ... : ,new tPj^« ?4»y»- 20It is beliey,ed.,tha,ti -jii.^ine jevent of an emergency, General "'Somenoff, the Cossack leader, would co-operate with China, au.d - Japan against Germany. *■ - • i i . - *■ ' "i> ■" ' '■ .- ■ GERMANS' SfiABCH FOR FOOD. . .. : ;■• ■ '^-1— •- V \ '. (Reuter's Telegram.) , „,M OSCOW, May 1.9. The Bolshcydki Press bureau has published ra secret circular \yliich ' the Ge.raddressed 'for all news ? papers' m ] prermany, stating ■' t ihat :.^he German ' i^ynimissio'nefs .\ h.a,ye conyir\ce3 'themselves of '^he <Sf 'supplies t of c^feals . iii XJkraine owing" to insufneieht smvirigs last year .and' small owners sec..^eting supplies.., „ , jU . . )' „. The. girqular stated that* peasants •' in Ufeaine ,.,. w^re nearly all : .armed against •thej. Gerjtijans, grt|at.er supplies t woidd,^© ."discovere;d; .wijbh . a. 'further ad-. Vaiice , ,by the GeiTOa?Va, and .be jtier results; hiighfc t ;V>o : obtained , by . jirnied.^orce. .^ut m,. any,,casc|..tjie' bopo juiy. improye^ meht-. of. Gevmariy s ,Jood "supplies, was exceedingly problematical. „ ','[._ .