RUSSIA.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVII, Issue 16432, 2 January 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

■■. - f enemy trade mission. United Service. Received 8.35 p.m., Jan. Ist. PETROGRAD, Deo. 31. A second Austro-German mission has arrived. It comprises representatives of foreign commerce, and the Industry. and Finance Ministers, BOLSHEVIK PROCOESSrON. I TO IMPRESS GERMAN HUSSION. OnstraJian and N.Z Cable Assn.) Received 11.35 p.m., Jan. Ist. Several hundred thousand Bolshevik supporters, troops, sailors, ; workmen and "women, held a procession through the streets. It was essentially a Bolshevik parade 'before the German guests And a demonstration against thd Constituent Assembly. NO CORN FOR PETROGRAD. ' The-peasants of Siberia and : Ukraine refuse to send corn to Petrograd. MAXIMALISTS LEVELLING DOWN. , The Commissaries have determined to abolish military rank, including non- 1 commissioned officers. A. decree removes all distinctions in uniforms, closes officers' clubs, and levels-the-.rate of pensions to that of soldiers. | CIVIL "WAR '-RAGING. | BOLSHEVIKI 'DEFEATED. Advices from Haparanda state that "Ukranian Cossacks heavily defeatedBolsheviki on the north-wester ii -front; taking prisoner four hundred and capl turing eight heavy guns, Md' 328 machine— guns. The Bolsheviki 7 retreat—ed in disorder. , - /- EXTERNAL' INTERPERENOE ' ; -'§ ,r—^ IN THE FAR EAST - TIWSIN,' Dec. 3L 1 The impression is growing "that "the Japanese will be forcod to take drastic measures in eastern Siberia in thV event of Maximalist infhiences'continuing io spread eastward. It is expected that China will undertake the protection of the whole of,;tiho; northern j Manchurian zones. ;