CHAOTIC RUSSIA
THE BLACK SEA FLEET. (Admiralty per Wireless Press.) Received April 26, 7.45 pm. LONDON, April 25. A wireless Russian message states that Germany has been asked for an assurance that the Russian Black Sea fleet, while obeying the terms of the peace treaty by remaining in Sebastopol, will not be seized or damaged by the German submarines, which are apparently about to blockade Sebastopol. LATER RED GUARDS IN SIBERIA. (Reuter's Jelegrams.) Received April 27, 9.55 a.m. "PEKIN, April 26. The Red Guards are holding up, robbing and ill-treating travellers on the Amur railway, and are dismantling the steamers on the Kin River. UHLANS IN THE UKRAINE. RAIDING FOR FOODSTUFFS. RESISTANCE BY PEASANTS. THREE SQUADRONS MASSACRED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received April 27, 9.55 a.m. LONDON, April 26. The Uhlans continue to raid the Ukraine for foodstuffs." The peasants, with machine-guns at Mossonerv surrounded and took three squadrons prisoners Having completed their disarmament they then mercilessly slew the Uhlans. FOOD SHORT IN PETROGRAD. ONLY ONE DAY'S SUPPLY AVAILABLE. Received April 27, 11.20 a.m. LONDON, April 27. Russian official: A notice addressed to the Council of Deputies in the provinces says that the food situation in Petrograd is again critical, there being only one day's supplies available. The notice urgently asks for help.
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Waikato Times, Volume 89, Issue 13752, 27 April 1918, Page 5
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