RUSSIA.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVII, Issue 16612, 22 August 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

FOOD RIOTS IN CAPITAL. HUNDREDS IvIsLLEI). ("The Times.") AMSTERDAM, August 20. Reports from Berlin indicate *ha£ ter. rible food,riots occur in Petrograd. starved workers, ijffcer a procession, demonstiated at the Smolny Institute shouting "Away with the Germans away with the Kremlin." They encountered Lettish guards and in fierce fighting which followed hundreds wores billed and wounded on both sides. 'Martial law has been proclaimed. . , * ' -i •, STOKM CENTRE. CZECH VERSUS BOLSHEVIK

TIENTSIN", August 20. Advanced Cbgcli forces on the TJssuri fiont aro meeting with desperate resis, tan«> fron Gorman-led Bolsheviks, and have been compelled to retire toirards the main body. A force cf Bolsheviks appeared at the rear of the Allied advanced posts ion the TJssuri, this may cause a temporary, retirement. JAPANESE LANDING. J::p.iuese naval forces have landed at. Nikolaievsk to protect their national. COSSACKS AGAINST SOVIETS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Awn.) Received 7.15 p.m., August 21st. COPENHAGEN, August 20. The Duke of Leuohtenberg, formerJv the Czar's Adjutant, has arrived in Berlin with a letter from the Goasac.: Gener.-ij Krnsnow to the Kaiser, askijip for assistance against the Soviet Governit'ont-. liON COSSACKS CLAIM INDEPENDENCE. Tl>e t«on Republic desires Genuary t-i recognise its independence. Uenmi: newspapers deprecate the request en the ground that the time is inopportune to intervene in Russian internal affairs.