RUSSIAN CRISIS

Southland Times, Issue 17795, 28 May 1918, Page 5

RUSSIAN CRISIS

UKRAINE PEASANTS RISE. ENEMY TROOPS DEFEATED. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Reuter’s Telegrams.') MOSCOW, May 26. Received May 27, 7.15 p.m. The forces of the Caucasus Government recaptured Sukhumkole. A Bolshevik paper states that peasant insurgents in Ukraine defeated the Dictator Skoropodsky’s Germo - Ukrainian troops. Ukrainian railwayman struck to assist the peasants, and have been replaced by Germans. THE RISING SPREADS. GERMAN REINFORCEMENTS DEFEATED. MOSCOW; May 26. Received May 27, 7.45 p.m. , The peasants’ rising has spread throughbut Ukraine. The authorities despatched German troops to disarm them, but the Novgorod district secured artillery anil machine guns and defeated the Germans.

MARAUDING PEASANTS.

DESTROY CROPS AND PLANTATIONS, BERNE, May 26. Received May 27, 7.15 p.m. Bands of Russian peasants are traversing Tesemikov, Dueschin, Volhynia, and Podolia, destroying crops and plantations, and burning forests. OBSCURE PEACE POINTS. SPECIAL COMMISSION AGREED TO. LONDON, May 27. Received May 27, 9.40 p.m. A Russian wireless message states that Germany has agreed to form a special commission to clear up obscure points in connection with the Brest-Litovsk peace. The Foreign. Commissary proposed that precedence be given to the situations in the Caucasus, Crimea, Esthonia, Livonia, and the demarcation of the frontier, the determination of which was interrupted at Pskoff owing to the Russo-German disagreement, also misunderstanding regarding war prisoners and fundamental principles respecting intereconomic relations. THE BLACK SEA FLEET. SOME SHIPS ESCAPE. AMSTERDAM, May 26. Received May 27, 7.15 p.m. The Cologne Gazette reports that two big Russian battleships and eight destroyers escaped from Sebastopol before the Germans occupied the town. The Germans captured the rest of the fleet.