RUSSIAN DISORDERED RETREAT.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11471, 25 February 1918, Page 5

RUSSIAN DISORDERED RETREAT.

ENEMY FOLLOWING UP. ARMIES ORDERED NOT TO FIGHT, London, Feb. 23. It is reported that the Russian position on tire northern front is critical owing to Jthe disorderly retirement blocking the roads. With a view to relieving tiro situation, the Commissaries are despatching Red Guards from not yet cntirol}’ disorganised. The enemy Lave occupied the entire first -lino on the northern front on the Divrna, and are moving towards Vofmar, endeavouring to cut off Reval. The Russian commander on the West front has ordered the retiring armies not to fight or destroy ammunition ponding Germany’s formal reply to Trotsky.

REPORTED GERMAN INTENTION MILL OCCUPY PETROGRAD. DESTRUCTION BY RUSSIAN EE TIRING TROOPS, London, Feb. 23. It is reported that Germany will occupy Petrograd until Russia gives guarantees of peace, and also makes a thirty years’ trade treaty. Foreign embassies ere preparng to leave. Petrograd is greatly agitated by the report that German officers, instructed in Berlin, are assisting the White Guards. This is regarded as treachery. The commissaries have ordered the retiring troops to destroy everything. Thus more frightful devastation has been committed in the already ruined country. The Germans can easily occupy Petrograd