Post by BereniceUK on Mar 31, 2017 18:52:28 GMT
NEWS FROM THE EAST.
We are now beginning to get a little more or less intelligible information as to what is going on in Russia. The Stockholm Tidning reports that the country is on the verge of peace, but is careful to say that the diplomatic channel through which it receives this news is not the Swedish Foreign Minister. The same source is the authority for saying that "an effort has been made to form a democratic Government without Lenin, but the result is unknown." There does not appear to have been any great bloodshed in Petrograd, but in Moscow there was fighting lasting over five days, and the number of people killed is now estimated at 4,000. This is the outcome of the mad doctrines of the Soldiers' and Workmens' Delegates, which have not only reduced the country to anarchy, but allowed the wholesale withdrawal of German and Austrian troops from the Russian frontiers and made possible the heavy blow against Italy. The Italian forces are just now holding their own on the line of the River Piave, but it is too soon to take it entirely for granted that the line of the Piave can be held. After their hasty rush across the eastern half of the Venetian plain the enemy will require time to collect their strength for another blow. On the other hand the limited retirement between the Piave and the Brenta, and also in the uplands north-east of Asiago, should not too soon be regarded as alarming.
(Lancaster Guardian, 24 November 1917)
We are now beginning to get a little more or less intelligible information as to what is going on in Russia. The Stockholm Tidning reports that the country is on the verge of peace, but is careful to say that the diplomatic channel through which it receives this news is not the Swedish Foreign Minister. The same source is the authority for saying that "an effort has been made to form a democratic Government without Lenin, but the result is unknown." There does not appear to have been any great bloodshed in Petrograd, but in Moscow there was fighting lasting over five days, and the number of people killed is now estimated at 4,000. This is the outcome of the mad doctrines of the Soldiers' and Workmens' Delegates, which have not only reduced the country to anarchy, but allowed the wholesale withdrawal of German and Austrian troops from the Russian frontiers and made possible the heavy blow against Italy. The Italian forces are just now holding their own on the line of the River Piave, but it is too soon to take it entirely for granted that the line of the Piave can be held. After their hasty rush across the eastern half of the Venetian plain the enemy will require time to collect their strength for another blow. On the other hand the limited retirement between the Piave and the Brenta, and also in the uplands north-east of Asiago, should not too soon be regarded as alarming.
(Lancaster Guardian, 24 November 1917)