RUSSIA.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVII, Issue 16477, 23 February 1918, Page 7

RUSSIA.

THE GERMAN ADVANCE.

Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. Received 5.5 p.m., Eeb. 22nd. i AMSTERDAM, Feb. 21As the Germans advance they are iesuing proclamations urging that further resistance is futile. The Germans are trying to cut the Lobau-Romen railway. Russian Red Guards and soldiers are offering no opposition, bnb are retiring and leaving ammunition supplies behind, TURKS AT TREBIZOND. A Turkish army, has appeared at Trebizond. BOLSHEVIK GOVERNMENT. MISJUDGED THE GERMANS. Received 7.40 p.m., Feb. 22nd. ; LONDON; Feb. 21. The "Daily Chronicle's" Petrograd correspondent says the Bolshevik Government, believing that German soldiers would refuse to attack revolutionary Russia, surprised and alarmed by the German advance, decided to suspend the demobilisation and ordered the retiring troops to destroy military stores. The front has ceased to exist, owing to desertions and demobilisation. Any resistance will be a guerilla warfare. GERMAN AIMS. .3 ho Germans apparently intend to force ar. entrance to *he Gulf of Finland und to land troops on the Finnish coast. i

A captured army order, signed hy Prince Leopold, states that the object of the advance is not annexation but the re-establishment of order and prevention of the spread of anarchism in western Europe. GENERALS OF OLD REGIME. CO-OPERATING AGAINST THIS BOLSHEVIKI. "The Times." PETROGRAD, Feb. 21. General Alexieff olaborately planned,' in conjunction with Generals Korniloif, Endel, Markoff, and .Deueken, to seize the railways and cut off all communication between central and northern Russia from the south, and make a clean sweep of the southern Bolsheviki, if tho blockade is effective. It is stated that ''•the Bolsheviki fear the superior discipline of Alexieff's army, and tho ability of his large staff of officers. The result of the plan will ultimatelyi depend upon General Alexieff getting Sufficient artillery and munitions. MISERABLE STATE OF RUSSIA. AMSTERDAM, m*. 21. I Dr Seidler, speaking in the Reichstrath, said "Ukraine was convulsed with civil', war; the whole of Russia was in a state of anarchy; chaos reigned everywhere, and was constantly extending; every man's hand was against his fellow- All prophecies of the transport of foodstuffs were futile.

RED GUARDS' OUTRAGE.

'The Times."

Received 11.35 p.m., Feb. 22nd. . , WASHINGTON, Fen. 21.

When Mohileff was evacuated General Yanuskkevitch, former Chief of the General Staff, was taken prisoner while travelling in a train to Petrograd. He attempted to seize a revolver when told he would be interned in a fortress. The Red-Guards thereupon shot him dead. * .

GERMAN PRISONERS.

1-REE IN SIBERIA. SHANGHAI, Feb. 21.

Harbin telegrams state that German prisoners in Siberia are entirely free, ant? that many are openly trading in German goods, while others are coming from North Manchuria with Russian passports which may be purchased for a hundred roubles. Prompt Allied action is necessary to combat the German occupation of these districts.

GENERAL KALEDIN'S END. | , (United Service.) x ■ PETROGRAD, Feb. 21. General Kaledin's suicide is confirmed;.' , '."..;

GERMANS ADVANCING. GREAT BOOTY SECURED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. and Renter. Admiralty.—Per Wireless Press. Received 1.20 a.m."; Feb. 23rd. LONDON, Feb. 21. German official.—We occupied Leal in Estnonia. We have readied Pernigal and Lensal on the Riga Gulf. We have traversed Winden, and are approaching Wolmar, aid between the Dvinsk and Pinsk are pressing eastward. General von Linsingen reports the occupation of important railway and road junctions. Rovno has been cleared of the enemy. Our prisoners include a. general, 425 officers, and S7O men; and our booty 1353 guns, 4500 motor-cars, and 1000 railway carnages, many of them laden with food.

LITTLE HOPE FOR PETROGRAD. Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn." PETROGRAD, Feb. 21. Military Headquarters, consider that llio fate of Potrograd will be settled in a fortnight, if the Germans continue their advance. TO SETTLE TERMS OF PEACE. "The Times." AMSTERDAM, Feb. 21. Ifc is reported from Berlin that Kuhlmann has begun consultation -with the General Powers regarding the final terms of a Russian peace in view of tho Bolsheviki's unconditional surren-; der. Meanwhile the German advance will bo continued, in order to enforce an early, and definite settlement, * i