DARE CRIME IN PETROGRAD

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 103, 24 January 1918, Page 5

DARE CRIME IN PETROGRAD

EX-MINISTERS MURDERED IN THEIR BEDS SEVERE BLOW TO THE CADET PARTY Petrograd, January 22. The Red Guards murdered Sh'ngarieff and Kokoshkien, formor members of Eerensky's Government, while they were lying in hospital. Illness followed the imprisonment of both the Cadet leaders. Kokoshkien was asleep when he was murdered; ShingariclE protested, and was riddled with bullets. — "The Times." ANOTHER ACCOUNT OF THE CRIME. London, January 22. The "Daily Chronicle's" Petrograd correspondent states that M. Shingaripff, an ex-Minister in the Provisional Government, and M. Kolcoshkin, a Cadet leader, were murdered on January 20. They came t-o Petrograd to attend tho Constituent Assembly, snd were arrested and confined in a fortress. Their imprisonment resulted in illness, and they were removed, at the iequest of friends, to the Marie Hospital. They left the prison at 8 o'clock in the evening, and wero murdered the same night. This is a very severe blow to the Cadets. M. Shingarieff was a thorough democrat, scrupulously honest, and single-minded. M. Kokoshkin v. as Professor of Political Science, and, next to M. Miliukolf, was the leading theorist of tho Constitutional Democrats. The friends of other imprisoned Ministers are in continual fear that tliev will be lynched. The alarm has been raised several times at night. The Red Guards demand that the Ministers shall be handed over for summary treatment. M. Kouovaloff and M. Tretiakoff have been transferred to hospital; M. Terestchenko, M. Kartasheff. M. Bernatzky, M. Kishkin, and M. Stepanoff are still in the Fortress cf St. Peter and Paul. The Red Guards contimie to patrol Petrograd. There is sonie shooting, but a very fierce snowstorm is raging. "I cannot tell all the brutalities and excesses which are ravaging Russia from end to end," continues the correspondent. "Plunder in its cruellest forms and murder are so common that their horrors pall. The tyranny : s verse than that of Nicholas the Second. The Bolsheviki are a warning symbol of the_ muttering volcanic forces of social upheaval loosened by the war. Their object is to enable the proletariat to capture the accumulated wealth of civilisation."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. \ THE END OF THE FARCE !' HOW A SAILOR DISPERSED THE ASSEMRLY. London, January 22. The Petrograd correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" states that the Constituent Assembly camo to a comic end at o o'clock in the morning. A sailor mounted the tribune and demanded that tho members should disperse, as the guard was tired. M. Tchernoff (the President) replied that the deputies were tired too, but must do their duty to the people by carrying the great principle of land nationalisation. The sailor insisted, and the deputies hastily passed a batch of resolutions and dispersed. Later, a Bolshevik Commissary' to tho Assembly announced that t.'io Assembly would not meet again. M. Skvorthoff. a Bolshevik leader, stated that Parliamentary institutions were only a fetish of the bourgeoisie.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. BOLSHEVIKI "FOREIGN OFFICE" (Rec. January 2-3, 5 p.m.) London, January 22. _ The United Press correspondent at Petrograd states that the Bolshevik Foreign Office has announced that tlie Bolsheviki will not seek foreign Government recognition, but they desire to help the peoples who are looking towards peace.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.'