THE CONDITION OF RUSSIA.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11470, 23 February 1918, Page 8

THE CONDITION OF RUSSIA.

MIGROEiO ENEMIES OF GERMAN INVASION. ZlSttd RAPIDITY OF CONGEST. United Press Association —By Elec-iV-eg? tph-Copyright. Received Feh. 223, noon. London, Feb. 22. The Morning Post's Petrogriul correspondent expresses tlie opinion tnst pestilence and famine will Peep Russian soil sale from German inroads long enough to enable the Allies on the West Front to deal with the common enemy. The nnouiicement of an unconditional surrender was o stunning blow to the public. The Germans are making the most of the opportunity with lightning dashes into helpless Russia.

Thousands of army horses were i eeentlv starved to death, the .-Rdiors selling their forage to pay t.;eir gambling debts. The condition of Russia?* mil-

;;-ays has long be on deplorable. Tiio Germans are gaining enormous booty and lighting material They ■■■ upturn! at Uvinsk sufficient food t i->! quarter of |a million men for ti;roe weeks. : also thirty thousand tms of sugar, six hundred locomot ves and a thousand waggons. I’be German invading forces, which have alreadv overrun the entire war zone a hundred miles deep, consists of only one division of cavalrv or infantry. The Polish Legions were offered ;• :i armistice on condition that they cave free passage in any direction, say are making towards Warsaw. Bolshevik party meetings have dveloped indignation towards Trotsky, who will probably resign.