GROANING UNDER THE BURDEN.
' TOWNS AND: VILLAGES *AS LAME. (Australian ana N. 2. Cable Association.) (Reuter's Telegram.) : v (.Received •May'2l", 9.^ a.m.) ; . , •' ■'■::> ~ y '.^ bONiyC®!, %v.aO.: A Russian', wifeless' report states that Skoi?dpaclsky -has Keen [declared ah, impoßter ,in~ yariooS' prace's. m Jlkx^e. His decree's are ' disregarded.' > ■-■■" The peasahW assembly ai/Kiefif, numberiftTK' tWenty thpiisahd, was plosed |jy the'GferihanJs'. Hiq population' 'werp exasperated/ and the district assembly decided toVburn airb'rea'd anct^otheir. pro'yiaipjhs.'-^' L^hdoftmers^' iyeret, declared outcasts. Skoropa'dsky' lias no * troops except . a b6dygiik¥d 'of bne itundred inch. The ctturiiry^is groaning under hunger, misery," siftd' sf^ery,, "Everybody is endeaVofm^! to" • free ■ 'Great' Russia" * and guerilla' "banda are being. "formed. Members.': oi ''the. l&ada l ar.e regarded as traitfirs. ' ''Almost: the '"whole population is an'c]^atte"rripts to "disarm are resisted to tlie' f death. Towns and villages are aflame. ;1 ' ' Germans -.everywhere are appointing tli^ir own officials and exporting to.,Gerall the proyi^jons they pan. seize.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14610, 21 May 1918, Page 3
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150GROANING UNDER THE BURDEN. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14610, 21 May 1918, Page 3
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