DISRUPTION IN THE SOVIET

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 308, 17 September 1918, Page 5

DISRUPTION IN THE SOVIET

PEASANTS DESERTING THE RED GUARDS THE FED TERROR IN PETROGRAD New York, September 15. Mr. At no Dosch-Fleurot cables from Stockholm: "I havo precise information that tho peasants are _ organising to abandon the Bolsheviki. Great numbers of big meetings have been held. The peasants have been ordered to withdraw their support of the Bolsheviki, and have withdrawn from the Soviets. Peasants in the Bolshevik Government or the Red Army have been ordered to return to their villages within ono month, the penalty for disobedience being banishment from villages, while any peasant who remains in tho Red Guard will be shot." —Aus.-N.Z, Cablo Assn. sombrTstories PRECARIOUS PLIGHT OF ALLIED OFFICERS. London, September 15. Fugitives arriving in London tell sombre stories of the horrors in Russia, and fully confirm the reports of constant -butcheries, burnings, and shootings. Petrograd is starving like a beleaguered garrison. Bands of marauding peasants and robbers aro holding tho roads outside tho city. A curious German-Bolshevik alliance exists within tho city, holding together-for mutual protection against the growing hatred of all classes. Tho Bolsheviki aro'acting under German orders, and German officers are commanding the troops and generally directing the outrages and arrests. They conduct daily mints for Allied officers and_ partisans, whoso life consists of hair-breadth escapes. They are compelled to change their sleeping apartments nightly and to adopt disguises. The Germans were responsible for the recent arrest, of Russian officers. Horrible brutality was shown towards the officers, many of whom are without legs or arms. They are herded in small dungeons without food or drink, and thero is no sanitation. Hundreds aro dying of dysentery and starvation. —Aus.-N.Z. Cablfl Assn. KUROPATKIN'S ARREST. London, September 15. Kuropatltin was arrested on a. charge of participating in a 'British conspiracy Against the Bolshevik Government.— Aus.-N-Z. Cable Assn. BOLSHEVIK ENVOY IN LONDON RELEASED. London, Sentember 15. Litvinoff (the Bolshevik envoy in London) has been released from Brixton prison and has been allowed to live in a. private residence under police supervision.—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn.