CONDITIONS IN RUSSIA

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 271, 5 August 1918, Page 5

CONDITIONS IN RUSSIA

A TERRIFYING PICTURE i POPULAR HOSTILITY TO THE BOLSHEVIK! Milan, August 2. A terrifying pioturc of the social conditions in Russia is supplied by a well-' known Polo who Ims returned from Petrograd and Moscow. Hunger- and cholera, lie says, dominate Petrograd. The people wait in queues, sometimes for sixteen hours, to securo the horrible,, black bread, mixed largely with straw, hay, and sawdust. Meat costs twenty roubles (10s.) a pound. Crowds search the rubbish heaps for food. There aro frequent deaths in ihe streets from starvation. Tho hich' mortality from cholera is duo to the absence of. medicines and the frightful seneial conditions. Starved horses, carrying the corpses of those who hnyo died of cholera, constantly fall- in the streets, leaving their ghastly burdens long unburied. Between Petrograd olid the Finnish border the people have not even bread. _ The Bolshevik excesses ars urovoking increased popular hostility. Tho latest local Soviet olections reveal a great change in sentiment. But wherever a Bolshevik has boon rejected. Lenin has annulled the election. The Bolshevik leaders no longer dare to irganise ,demonstrations on their own account, and precautions to secrae thair personal safetv exceed anything in the history of tho Tsars—"The Times." ARRIVAL OF~ALITeD MISSION Washington. August 2. The State Department lias received advice from the American Ambassador (Mr. David R. Francis),, stating that he and tho members of the Allied Mission, including Chinese and Jap.meso representatives, have arrived safely at Kandalaska. The'staffs will remain ,-t Kandalaska, but Mr. ,-Francis and Iho heads of the mission'are proceeding to Kola, where thev will remain under tho protection of tho -Allied naval and military conting.ent?.-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. [Kandalaska is on the southern coast of the Kola peninsula at the 1 ead of tho north-west arm of the White Sea. The. 'Soviet Government at Archangel would not allow tho mission to Tenmin there.] COMPOSITION OF THE AMERICAN MISSION. (•Rcc. August 5, 1.5 a.m.) New York, August 8. Tho American mission to Vladivostok will consist of a few thousand, and will •be composed of business men, Red Cross workers, agricultural experts, labour advisers, and Y.M.C.A. men.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. MAXIM GORKY'S ARREST ORDERED. Copenhagen, August 2. Tho Russian. Government has ordered ■ Maxim Gorky's-arrest, and has suppress--1 ed his newspaper—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn, INTERVENtInTn SIBERIA MILITARY FORCES TO BE MSPATCHED IMMEDIATELY. Washington, August 2. Japan has accepted tho American i terms for intervention in Siberia. , Tho i primary object is to givo assistance to the Cz'echo-Slovaks. Military forces will be dispatched im-mediately—Aus.-N.Z. Cabb Assn. STRONG JAPANESE DETACHMENTS ; IN MANCHURIA. J London, August 2. [ The "Morning Post" correspondent at , Stockholm states that the Bolsheviki [ lave been. practically cleared out of Siberia except, at Irkutsk, where- fighting is incessant. Strong Japanese detach-, ■ nionls in Manchuria are iroady to oper- '. ate. Japaji, China, and America have- : agreed to support the Omsk Provisional ; Govcrnmont.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. : At™ landinglnliurman coast ; 'ASSISTED BY JUGO-SLAYS. I London, August 2. > Renter's Agency learns that a detach- - ment of Jugo-Slavs, all voluuteers, who f wero former Austrian prisoners in Russia, greatly assisted the Allied landing , on tho Murman coast. They traversed ) Russia fn-om Odessa to Archangel, occu- , pied strategical points on the Murman - railway and beat off a German-Finnish 1 assault. Largo numbers of these Jugo- . Slavs wero in a pitiful condition, and i were collected and sent to Allied hospitals. When they are re-equipped they l will prove of the greatest value to the I AlliocV cause.—Reuter. i AN ANTI-BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION t SOVIETS FLEE FROM ARCHANGEL. (Rec. August i, 5.5 p.m.) j New York, uigust 3. . An anti-Bolshevik revolution has ) broken out at Archangel, and tho Soviets have fled. Tho Allies have 'anded troops 3 at Archangel.—Ans.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ! THE UKRAJN? RISING ■ SECRET POLICE ORGANISATION. Berne, August 2. Several hundred secrot police , have assembled in Warsaw, and are going to 1 the Ukraine to form the nucleus of a 1 secret police organisation there—AusB .- N.Z. Cable Assn. I the EicnoßN andlrbach murders :■ GERMANY DEMANDS THVT. PEEFE- ». TRATORS BE PUNISHED.- . (Rcc. August i, 5.5 p.m.)' Stockholm, August 3. ' Herr Helffarich, German Minister of 1 tho Interior, on behalf of the Government, has sent a message to M. Trotsky stating that the murders of General von Eichorn and General von Mirbach wero plotted at Moscow, and demands that . tho Maximalist Government search for and punish the perpetrators, and also destroy tho hotbeds of anti ; German intrigue at Moscow and Petu-ograd.-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. i EX-TSAR'S AMAZING LIMITATIONS ! INCIDENTS IN 1 HIS LAST JOURNEY. f (Rcc.. August 4, 5.5 p.m.) I Stockholm. August 3. t Commissary Yakovlev, who carried out the Bolshevik orders to remove tho exTsar from Tobolsk to Ekaterinburg, doi scribes incidents in the last journey. Ho received a vivid impression. ot the exTsar's amazing limitations. Ihe. exTsarina was altogether ndifferent. ihe was cunning and proud, and exerted a. s strong influence on her husband. Upon learning of the fate of tho ex-Tsar sho «ia" "I won't go" Aft* prolonged a family consultations the ex-Tsar prepared o the journey. Cavalry escorted the carriage, and large patrols guarded every ; bait until the party was entrained at I Tumeii. The Royalties expected insults, D awl wore much surprised at the correctness of their guards' behaviour. Comnmnry Yokovlov conversed continually r h the ex-Tsar, who never mentioned politics or the war. His mind 'was centred on the narrow domain of his ianily, the weather, and his food. Crowds waiting at Ekaterinburg shouted Show s the bloodsucker!" and refused to disperse even on tho threat that machineSum would be used. The tram was tWeunon shunted to the ne.ihbouring r 'lata at Berge.-Aiw.-NJS. Cable Assn. s ,'• TtmiOVAL OF WIDOW AND CHIL- ! D&EN TO SPAIN SUGGESTED. (Rcc. August 4, 5.5 p.ni.) . Madrid, August 3. On tho initiative of King Alfonso, the Foreign Minister has approached Russia with a view to the removal of the widow and children of (ho ex-Tsar to Spani.lleutcr. NICHOLAS'S DIARY TO BE PUBLISHED. (Rcc. August i, 5.3 p.m.) Paris, August 3. 1 Advices from Moscow state that the ox- ■ Tear's burial place is a eecrot. Ten i volumes of his diary, covering the period s fmm his .'youth until the last days of - his life, have been discovered, and will shortly bo publishcd.-"Tho Times."