RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11444, 25 January 1918, Page 5

RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR.

BOLSHEVIKS DEFEAT UKRAINIANS, A TOWN CAPTURED. Petrograd, Jan .23. Tho Bolsheviks report that their troops defeated the Ukrainians at, Potlava ami captured the town, A GRISLY gpeoraeiE,

FAMINE FOLLOWS DISORDER. THE NEW RUSSIAN TAXATION, BY THE WORST OF GRIMES, London, Jam 23. Tho Daily Chronicle's Petrograd correspondent s‘'Y a the food shortage is approaching ‘ipe verge of actual famine. Money is unprocurable by private persons and public bodies'! Proletariat methods of raising money for current e.ypenses are by robbery, blackmail and felony. TROTSKY FIGHTS ALONE. AN APPEAL FOR ENTENTE SUPPORT. , OR HE MIY FAIL AO AIN ST GERMANY. New York, Jan, ft. Tho New York World’s Petrograd correspondent says [That while Trotsky is making an unflinching light for democratic peace terms’ iie may fail if tho Allies refuse to aid' Russia. He will be unable to continue defiance of Germany unless he received material assistance.

THE CONDITION OF AUSTRIA. PEOPLE IN A VIOLENT TEMPER LABOUR PAPER WARNS THE GOVERNMENT. GREAT STRIKE IN PRAGUE. London, Jan. :3;;. Geneva messages only mention tho collapse of tlie strike at Vienna, adding that the temper of tho Austrian populace remains violent. The Arbiter Zeitung warns the Government that if the Brest Litovsk negotiations fail, owing to the Central Powers’uncompromising attitude, Socialise leaders will no longer he able to control the workers. German portions of Austria are reported to he comparatively calm, but Bohemia is in a state of ferment.

A demonstration at Prague Opera House on Sunday led to grave riots. A general strike begun at Prague on Monduv.