CHAOTIC RUSSIA

Waikato Times, Volume 89, Issue 13753, 29 April 1918, Page 4

CHAOTIC RUSSIA

FINLAND'S PLIGHT SOLD TO GERMANY. (Renter's Telegrams.) deceived April 28, 5.5 p.m. , , , . LONDON. April 26. . A delegation from the Finnish So. ah- r P V, f ' has P l( >tested to the Allies as follows:— "The leaders of the nnti-revolnt'onarv White Guard in r inland have publicly declared themselves una hie to crush the workers and Government without the aid of German militarism. i n return for which they have sold the. country to Germany, who has begun a military occupation and destruction of the whole labour movement and permitted ststematic murder of war prisoners, the wounded in hospitals and non-combat-ant leaders."

THE UKRAINE FOOD SUPPLY. (Reuter's Telegrams.) Received April 28, 5.5 p.m. AMSTERDAM, April 27. n vhe Reichstag, a Socialist deputv f, t ' I lal General von Schoen had •s----tabhshed a military dictatorship in the Ukraine, hence Germany was gettine no supplies theuce. THE CZAREVITCH AS EMPEROR. A PERSISTENT RUMOUR. Received-April 29, 12.40 a.m. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) . COPENHAGEN, April 28. r mnish newspapers publish persistent rumours that the ex.Czar's son Alexis Aicolaivitch lias l>een proclaimed Emperor under the regeucv of Grand Duke Michael. NO NEWS FROM PETROGRAD. RUMOURS OF SERIOUS RIOTS. COUNTER-REVOLUTION SUGGESTED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received April 29, 9.5 a.m. COPENHAGEN, April 28. j here have l>een no recent telegrams from Petrograd. Rumours are current' j &( ! r ' O,IS ri °ts, and it is even suggested that a counter-revolution has started. The transport of Russians from r inland stopped three davs ago owing to riots.