Second Edition Russia.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 73, 23 February 1918, Page 6

Second Edition Russia.

NATION IN DEATH-THROES

, , LAST STACE WORST THAN THE FIRST. TH£ PEOPLE* STUNNED AND HELPLESS. . J Press Association—Copyright, Austro lian and N.Z. Gable Association (Received 11..55 a.m.) London, February 22. The Daily Chronicle’s Moscow correspondent says he conversed with ’ • Austro-German prisoners roaming the stKets, and found them dejected and indignant. They desired to return to their homes, but were not permitted > to go through their own front and sent back under a promise that they would return Via Finland which route was now closed owing-to the • upheaval there. Fourteen hundred Austro-Ger-mans were living in railway trucks at Moscow station < being penniless and dependent on the Bolsheviks’ charity fojvfood' or drink. - . The' Morning Rost’s Petrograd correspondent expresses the opinion, that pestilence and faming will keep the Russian soil safe from- German in- •• roads long enough 1 to enable the Allies the.Wes* front to. deal with the enemy; • ■ . ■.< ■ -."'•The announcement of unconditional N was a stunning blow to the V* v public. The Germans are making the ; . ,'jpost of the opportunity with lightn- ; dashes into helpless Russia. V v,' Thousands of army horses recently 'Starved to deathf.the soldiers having, £, Vapid the forage to pay their , gambling -debts, -The condition of the Russian,railr V -ways has long been deplorable.* ■ , The Germans are gaining enormous 'M booty and fighting;, material. They ’ V captured at Dvinsk sufficient food for •v ■ V quarter of a million men for three Vv/. weeks, also 30,000 tons of sugar,' 600 •>. locomotives, and 1000 waggons. f-V'VThe German invading, forces, which Alfave already overrun the. entire wa t , - zope. for I(X> miles deep, consists ..--of only one division of cavalry or: in.fantry. • , ’ 1 v: .The. Polish..legions.were offered an armistice on condition that they-gave ,£a>frpe passage in any direction.. They ' , js ai’6 making towards Warsaw. :s -(■The Bolshevik party meetings dev«6ped into a storm of irtdignation .towards Trotsky, who will probably

,IN THE ’’ \ BALTIC,: ( j ( j j i i

PUNISHMENT pf WARSAW.

Press: Association— Austra.'t lian and N.Z. Cable A ssooiatioa '■ (Received 9.35 a.m.) ; i;-..Amsterdam, February. 22. Germany . regards ■ f the proposals \ made at, Bresti-'lAtOvsk a? annulled) It is Beli6yed‘ ihiit.ghe' is- now .deters mined to demand, the whole of file Baltic Coast , including, possession of the Russian Baltic fleet. The Germans made, a levy on Warsaw’ of 250 T ,opd marks as a punish- ' ment for recent disorders.

JAPANESE INTERESTED.

MOVING EVENTS IN THE EAST.

MILITARY ASSISTANCE HINTED AT.

Preis Association—Copyright, Australian and NiZrCable Association t. (Received 9.35 a.m.) Tokio, February 22.

The menace of Petrograd is exciting the closest attention, in view of the immense and complete German domination of Russia..; ’

Thereis - special significance in the ; presence of Japanese warships p.t yiadivostock.

Japanese assistance has hitherto been purely naval and- financial, but ■may shortly take another form, because the continued advance will probably give the Germans control of the trans-Siberian railway. v