Notes

The rivers Bug and Muchowietz overflowed causing severe damage to life and property at Brest of Brest-Litovsk* fame, and Terespol. The inhabitants of both places were driven to the tops of tall buildings by the tremendous inundation.

Some loss of life was reported; also much cattle and property damage in the surrounding districts.

"Plundering Red Guards massacred 800 women and children in reprisal for peasant attacks" stated a despatch from Helsingfors in Finland.

MM. Tshebakov, Yakovlefen and Yedinevsky, together with Mme. Vinegradova, all described at "intellectuals," were condemned to death at Kiev by a Bolshevik court for counter-revolutionary activity. Twenty other persons were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment. Premier Poincare of France was moved to send a telegram to Moscow appealing for the lives of the professors "in the name of civilization and humanity and on behalf of the Government and public opinion in France." The Bolshevik said M. Poincare was tactless and accused him of unwarrantable interference in Russian domestic affairs. The Soviet official journal Izvestia said with due sarcasm: "Where were the humanitarian feelings of the French Government when Russia was surrounded by enemies and the Russian people starving?"

*The Treaty of Brest-Litovak, signed March 3, 1918, ended hostilities between the German Empire and Russia in the War.