RUSSIA.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16505, 5 August 1919, Page 3

RUSSIA.

POPULATION OP PETROGRAD. REDUCED BY TWO-THIRDS, By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received August 6, 8.50 a.m.) WASHINGTON, July 31. The Stats’ Department announes that it lias receivecl information that the population of Potrograd, which was 2,318,645 before tho war. is now 800,000 and rapidly dwindling as tho result of disease, deportations, and Bolshevik executions.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. FURTHER ATTACKS ON JEWS. MASSACRE IN ODESSA. LONDON, August 2. Semi-official Polish nows reports further Jewish pogroms in Russia. General Grigorief’s troops surrounded the Jewish quarter of Odessa and massacred every single Jew during tho occupation, which lasted three days and nights.— Reuter. AMERICAN LOAN TO KOLTCHAK. NEW YORK, July 29. Tile Times’ Washington correspondent states that a group of American bankers have loaned the Omsk Government five million dollars to enable Admiral Koltchak to buy food and other supplies in the United States.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.