RUSSIA.
PARLOUS STATE OF PETP.OGRAD. MOSCOW ALMOST ISOLATED. Australian and N.Z. Cablo Assn. . . AMSTERDAM, August 24. Besides cholera, famine and typhus aro now raging in Petrograd. In the Northern Russian provinces the populations of whole villages are dying out to-- want of broad. " j Practically all Moscow's railway communication is cut off. This is "partly <luo to the passive resistance of tlio! railwaymen. The . counter-revolution-i artes have blown up numerous bridges, j IMPORTANT CZECH~CAPTL T RE. J LONDON. August 24." Renter's Agency learns that the Czecho-SJovak withdrawal on the L'ssuri front does not affect their communication and is not regarded as a serious check. Moreover, it is reported to-day that ,9. y zC ebs have captured ' Verclmuamsk, an important centre commanding the railway tunnels south of Lake Baikal.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CVII, Issue 16620, 27 August 1918, Page 6
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