FALL OF SEBASTOPOL.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14778, 22 May 1918, Page 5

FALL OF SEBASTOPOL.

SEVERE BLOW TO THE BOLSHEVIKI. GERMANY DISAPPOINTED-'WITH UKRAINE SPOIL. THE CAPTUsirTROYALTIES. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association) j London, May 20. j The fall of Sebastopol is a.. severe blow for the Bolsheviki, who have been fighting iii bodies of from 2000 to 5000 strong, with plenty of artillery and machine guns. A battle often lasted two or three'days. The fighting made great demands upon the armies of the Central Powers, which had- to cover a

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vast distance. The Bolshevik! always evaded defeat by flight. There is disappointment in ' Germany regarding the food supply from the Ukraine due to the large sums of money which the small fanners amassed in the early part of the'war owing to the extortionate prices secured for corn. When the Bolsheviki regime commenced the farmers hid their •money and lived on hidden stores1 "of' grain and thus far have not .even tilled the soil. • . •

) The "Morning Post's" Zurich correspondent states that there is much rejoicing in Germany and' Austria at the capture of the Dowager Empress of Russia and three Grand Dukes. The "Ncue Freie Presse" says the Central Powers will not ill-treat them, though all, especially the Command er-ui-Chief, Nicholas, merited punishment. The newspapers state that initil the arrival of the Germans the Imperial Family were allowed only ordinary soldiers' rations," and had neither meat nor sugar. The Grand Duchess Olga had to do housework and wash clothes in order to pay her bookseller's bill. A telegram from Tobolsk states that the Czarevitch Alexis is ill, and there! is little hope of his* recovery.