RUSSIAN SITUATION

Waikato Times, Volume 92, Issue 14363, 14 May 1920, Page 6

RUSSIAN SITUATION

I (, ' SIBERIA FAVOURS SEPARATION. I BUmL STATE SUGGESTED, ... (Reulgr.) TOKIO, May i\. A semi-official report slates that Hie Thndivostoek Provisional Government has issued a statement foreshadowing the establishment of a buffer stale, it says that connection with unity under European Russia is impossible at present, and. therefore an autonomous administration is necessary, which will include the establishment of an army and navy i*ul civil courts, recognition of foreign treaties, and the encouragement of foreign trade, especially along barter lines. CONDITIONS IN PETROGRAD. 300,000 DIE FROM TYPHUS. ) 700,000 EATING GRASS AND HERBS. i ( (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.)PARIS, May 12. The Excelsior’s representative has returned after an exhaustive lour of Russia. He declares that 300,000 died in Pelrogracl from typhus last winter, when most of the public buildings were converted into hospitals. Seven hundred 'thousand arc reduced to eating herbs and grass. The price of food is' beyond imagination. 1