RED ANARCHY IN RUSSIA

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 38, 8 November 1917, Page 5

RED ANARCHY IN RUSSIA

"IT IS TIME TO TELL THE TRUTH"

WHOLE REGIONS UNDER

TERRORISM

ROBBERIES COMMITTED WITH

IMPUNITY

' London, November 6. Tlio "Morning Post" correspondent at Petrograd writes:—"lt is lime to tell the truth about tho conditions in Hussia. Whole regions of European aro terrorised by armed bands of 'Tovarisci,' who are laying waste the countryside. Horses and cattle are slaughtered,' and tho carcasses left rotting in the' fields. Breadstuffs are deliberately set alight, mid spirit stores burnt. The peasantry havn joined tho bauds, and share in tho pillage. Debauches of drunkenness aro increasing alarmingly, and thousands are drinking methylated spirit, while others aro instituting private stills. The Moscow revolt in 1305 fizzled out in a pandemonium of drink and vice; and it looks as if tho Petrograd revolt will do tho same thing. The armed bands are wearing the uniforms of soldiers, but are acting like professional criminals. Several hundred robberies wiUi violence are reported in Petrograd every day,, though many sufferers do not trouble to lodge complaints. Murders aro committed with impunity beyond any estimate. Gangs of tho Tovarisci openly rob houses and shops by daylight, carrying off the proceeds in motor lorries. Yesterday a score of Tovarisci held up a main thoroughfare and robbed everyone who passed of money and valuables. Occasionally tho crowd lynches a few of the robbers. All shops are clearing their goods into cellars, and private houses Rre.barricading their lower floore. Germany is .sending arms into Russia, and also agents capable of becoming leaders of a revolt. It is not strange that Petrograd in in a perpetual state of alarm and confusion." —Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn.

PEACE AGITATION

Petrograd, November 6.

At the meeting of the Preliminary Parliament, M. Skobeleff, who is to represent the, Russian democracy at the forthcoming Allied Conference, admitted that the Army was in a sad elate. Ho urged that the Allies should invite tho enemy to discuss peace. It. Tere6tschenko, Foreign Minister, declared that the anarchy in Eussia was growing worse. The whole world desired peace. It must be a peace without annexations, but Russia must not accept any sort of peace.—Router.

BIG TEXTILE STRIKE IN MOSCOW

(Rec." November 7, 11 p.m.)

Petrograd, November 6. Three hundred thousand textile work. ers in Moscow Lave struck.—"The Times."