RUSSIAN AFFAIRS

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16417, 10 January 1919, Page 7

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS

WOMAN RULES PETROGRAD. BRITISH ILL-TREATED. (By Cable.—F»» Awociatio-i.-Copyright.) (R«utcr'a Telegram*.) HELSINGFORS. January 7. Members of the Danish legation w have arrived from Pot.roprad.sta _ ■ R-'ti?h "iv;l and miliary is uprisonoi in Moscow are being ' treated. The real dictator 01 i ot.ograd is a woman, aged twenty- > named Jacoblova, who is chief * Anti-Counter Revolutionary Commute . Her cruelty dirpasses all existing legends. Matfy die of starvation in the streets daily. The pomilation has sunk to 800.000. Three-quarters of the shops nrw ciosed. the tramways are suspended, and the electric licht may only be used for two hours daily. The Red Guards in the Petrograd district number 50,000. TROTSKY DEPOSES LENIN. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, January 8. It is reported from Moscow that Trotsky hn.s asenmod the dictatorship, after arresting Lenin. CHURCHES AS PICTURE PALACES. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.} (Received January 9th, 7.30 p.m.) AMSTERDAM, January 8. Among the amazing doings of the Russian Bolshevists is the action of the Petrograd Soviet in transforming twenty-one churches into picturo palaces for propaganda purposes. One hundred and fifty thousand prisoners have arrived from Germany. Those hostile to Bolshevism were forced to attend lectures on the principles of Soviet rule.