THE RED TERROR

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 310, 19 September 1918, Page 5

THE RED TERROR

PROMINENT VICTIMS OP BOLSHEVISM GRAND DUKE AND FORMER MINISTERS BATTLE ON THE ARCHANGEL FRONT London, September 17. The "Morning Post's" Stockholm correspondent elites that tho reign of terror continues in Russia.' Business men, scientists, ami officers have boon arrested wholesale. The last list of executions includes the Grand Duke •Paul'Alcxundrovitcli, General Verkhoysky (who was Minister of War in Keronsky's l Cabinet), and M. Sarodiii (Minister of Justice). Five thousand representatives of the bourgeoisie, including,.ninny women, liavp been arrested as revenge for the murder of Uritski, and several have already been' diot. — <■ Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn. TRUCULENT REPLY TO PROTEST FRO" NEUTRALS , A SINISTER THREAT. (Rcc. Septembor 18, 9.35 p.m.) Copenhagen, September 17. Replying to a protest from the neutral diplomatists against the Bolshevik terrorism, U: Tcliitoherin said that he ' indignantly resented their action,_ adding: "I will regard any. future interference as an attempt to support tho counter-revolution ."—Aus.-N.!£. CableAssn. APPEAL TO THE WESTERN PROLETARIAT MESSAGE TO INTER-ALLIED LABOUR CONFERENCE. (Roc. September 18, 9.35 p.m.) London, September 17. The official Russian delegates to the Labour Conference have been delayed at Stockholm. They telegraphed a. message referring .to the sanguinary. Bolshevik orgies and unspeakable- suf-, ferings of the people, and appealed to the western proletariat to send a commission to investigate the Soviet Government's policy and attitude to the people.—"Tho Times." AMERICA DECLINESJO HELP FINLAND UNTIL ALL GERMAN SOLDIERS LEAVE. . (R«c. September 18, 9.35 p.m.) Copenhagen, September 17. Carlo Ignatius, representative of the Finnish Government, has returned from a visit to America. He reports tlmfe tho Government refuses to recognise Finnish independence or send food to Finland until all tho Gerj man soldiers leave.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable ■ Assn. ' THE ALLIED ADVANCE FROM THE NORTH BATTLE ON THE ARCHANGEL FRONT Amsterdam, September 17. 'A message from Petrograd dated September 14, states that there was a. battlo on the' Archangel front, between tho Bolshoviki and the French, British; and American forces. Tho Bolshcviki lied in panic, and a. number of Bolshevik officers deserted io the British.— Aus.-PLZ. Cablo Assn. POLES RALLyTn SIBERIA IOO.'OOO MEN AVAILABLE FOR SERVICE. New Yorh, September 17. A message from Harbin states that the Poles in Siberia are forming a largo armj-j estimated at more than 100,000- trained men, who will be immediately available., Tho Poles at HarMri, Nikolsk, and Vladivostok are ask- < ing for recognition by the American Government. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.