THE BOLSHEVIK RED TERROR

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 306, 14 September 1918, Page 7

THE BOLSHEVIK RED TERROR

ITS ENORMITY NOT REALISED ALL ENEMIES.BEING EXTERMINATED (Rec. September 14, 0.40 a.m.) New York, September 11. Mr. Arno Dosch-I'leurot, writing from Stockholm, '-says:—"! am convinced that tlie outside world does not realise the enormity of the Bolshevik red terror. Immediately following my escape from Petrograd 1 learned that Zinovieff, President of the Petrograd Soviet, had executed more than 500 political prisoners us a , reprisal for the death of Uritsky. The Bolsheviki Tc-rrorists' and Ziuovieff's victims were killed because they were educated men, belonging to the bourgeoisie. The Bolsheviki are exterminating all possible enemies, however passive. If Lenin dies there will be a further slaughter of the innocents."—Ans.-N.Z. Cable Assn. SUPPLIES FOR TJTCZECHO-SLOVAKS (Rec, September 14, 0.40 a.m.) Washington, September 11. It is definitely announced that communication has been restored between Vladivostok, Ekaterinburg, .and. Samara. Supplies aro now'forwarded regularly to the Czecho-Slovaks.—Aus,-N.Z. Cable Assn. British ;and"french prisoners Stockholm, September 12. It is reported that eleven British and eleven Frenchmen are imprisoned in the fortress of St. Peter-mid St. Paul in Petrograd, including Mr. Lockart, who was condemned to death, but was reprieved on the joint representations of neutral Ministers.—Router. RISINGS AGAmTtHE SOVIETS Stockholm, September 12. Reports from Moscow stato that tlie White Guards revolted and assumed the- Government in. Nijiii Novgorod. Six districts have unitet! against the Soviet. The peasants in Kazan aro everywhere arming against the Soviet. —Renter.