AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11449, 31 January 1918, Page 5

AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.

CIVIL WAR IN PROGRESS.

WAR ON THE MIDDLE CLASSES.

UKRAINE RADA RESIGNS.

Unietd Service. London. Jail. 58. Civil war is now general, in Russia. The Bolsheviks have inaugurated strong military campaigns in Finland, Bessarabia and the Ukraine, Troops and guns have been moved southward ✓from the I'ront.- Tho Bolsheviks apparently aim at tho immediate overthrow of all th e bourfgeoiso governments in old Russia and Roumania.

There is a possibility of tho Red Guard army making foreign campaigns.

The Russian warships dominated Helsingfors during its capture by. the Red Guards.

It is reported that several Swedes have been murdered. The whole of Eastern Finland is in tiie Red Guard’s possession and reinforcements arc arriving with orders to support tho proletariat against tho upper clisses. The Roumanian Legation at Pet-, rograd received twelve hours’ notice to quit Russia.

The Bolsheviks assert that tho Ukrainian Government has resigned. The Bolsheviks with the left section of tho Socialists have formed an administration and recalled tho Rada’s representatives from Brest Litovsk. replacing them with Bolsheviks.