IN RED RUSSIA

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 310, 25 September 1918, Page 5

IN RED RUSSIA

THE MAN WHO SIGNS THE EXECUTIONS A LITTLE BLOND LETT. , New York, September 23. ■ Mr. Arno Doscli-Fleurot telegraphs from Stockholm:—"The most iui'fu! figwe iu the Russian Red Terror is u, dapper littlo blond Lett named Peters. He is tho Commissioner Extraordinary against _ the counter-revolution. Peters lived in England for many years and speaks Russian with nn English accent. He daily signs away lives of scores of men and women he has never seen, because they were suspected of being against the Bolshcviki. Peters has absolute power over the life and death of anybody in Russia. A nouIral who had been before him many times pleading for the lives of innocent persons told me that Peters would become a furious little animal. He signs death warrants all day. Sitting in the Kremlin on oro occasion ho signed away, tho lives of seventy-two officers without glancing at the paper."— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

ATTEMPT TO KILL TROTSKY (Rcc. September 24, 7.20 p.m.) Stockholm, September 23. An unsuccessful attempt was made to shoot Trotsky at Kursk.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. FRESH REPRISALS. (Rec. September 24, 11 p.m.) Moscow, September 2-1. Alleging fresh attempts to assassinate its members, the Soviet has announced that fresh reprisals will be carried out.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. A SHY AMBASSADOR HELFFER.ICH RESIGNS HIS POS'l 1 . (Bee. September 24, 11 p.m.) Amsterdam, September 24. Dr. Helfferich's resignation of the jx>st of German representative in Russia has been accepted. It is recalled that Helfferich, subsequent to the assassination of Mirbach, went ■to ■Moscow, but fled after a few days.— Reutor. POLITICAL ORDEuTn ARCHANGEL New York, September 23. Delayed Press dispatches from Archangel say that tho Allied diplomatic and military staffs hayo assumed temporary control following on the attempted overthrow of the Tschaikovsky Government, and have established a protectorate region behind tho Allied front, which will be relinquished when order is restored. Tschaikovsky and tho members of his Cabinet are now under Allied protection!. Colonel T. Chaplin, leader of tho abortive coup d'etat, has resigned tho post of com-manrler-in-chief of Russian armies. Order is being maintained in the city. —Aus.-N;Z. Cable Assn.

TWO THOUSAND AUSTRO-GERMANS | SURRENDER ' (Rec. September 24, 11 p.m.) London, September 23. The Press Bureau reports:— "The Japanese military attache stntes that the Japanese cavalry occupied Blagovistehensk and Alexeievsk on September 18. Two tliousaud AustroGonnan prisonei'K surrendered at Kokka. on the right bank of the i\ini!i-."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-lteu-ter. THE MOM RASPUTIN ANOTHER VERSION OF HIS DEATH. Now York, September 23. Dr. Stanislaus Lazcvert, a Russian colonel, who commanded the sanitary sqction of the Red Cross, has arrived to see President Wilson in, connection with the situation ini Siberia. Dr. Lazevcrt asserts that be with four others—the Grand Duke Dmitri Paul, n captain of the Guard, M. Pourisclikohoatch, and a second Grand Duko (to be nnmelcss) —killed Rasputin outside the Duke. Paul's Palace in order to save Russia from defeat. The report that Rasputin was lured into a house ni:.d then shot was untrue.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. THE SLAYMOYEMENT AN APPEAL TO PRESIDENT "WILSON. Washington, September 23. Czecho-Slovaks, Jugo Slav 6, and Poles in conference here agreed on behalf of the oppressed nations in. Aus-tria-Hungary to submit to President Wilson a plan whereby a uew central body shall be formed for the protection of the interests of these rationalities against the furtherance of German aims. .The immediate ohiect is to suppress Germnn propaganda in the United States aiming at the creation of a split amongst the Poles.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. THE LATE EX-TSAR'S FATE (Rec. September 24, 8.30 p.m.) Amsterdam, September 23. Tho body of the late ex-Tsar was exhumccl from tho forest where he was executed, and ceremoniously conveyed to Ekaterinburg, where it lay in state at the cathedral prior to temporary in-terment.—Aus.-Jf.Z. Cable .Assn. "PSEUDO-PROSPERITY" STERN WARNING AGAINST LAVISH EXPENDITURE. Sydney, September 24. Tho Auditor-General, in his annual report, utters a stern warning against tho pseudo-prosperity and lavish expenditure which, is the outcome of tho war. • The swingback, it says, will be severe, and it behoves tho people" to make preparation for leaner days ahead while there is' timo.—Press Assn.