IN RED RUSSIA

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 10, 7 October 1918, Page 6

IN RED RUSSIA

COMMISSION OF BUTCHERY STILL AT WORK

EX-NEW YORK ANARCHIST AT

THE HEAD

(Rec. October 6, 5.5 p.m.)

\ New York, October 4. Mr. Arno Doseh Pleurot, writing from Stockholm, states:—;"! learn.from a neutral diplomat who has arrived from Moscow 'that if Mr. Poole (the American correspondent) had readied the Finnish frontier two hours later than ,he di.d when he \es- ( caped ",' from Russia he . would have been arrested and confined in the Fortress of Peter and Paul. The order for his arrest was given by the Extraordinary Commission against the counter-revolution. The diplomat said that life in-Retrograd was unendurable. The red - terror was growing worse daily. Lenin had tried to prevent the wholesale executions of the innocent bourgeoise, but the Extraordinary Commission was more x powerful than he. In alt the cities and provinces the educated classes are being murdered. The head of the Extraordinary Commission in Petrograd*is one Bill Shatoff, Iformerly a. New York an-' 1 archist., According to neutral reports toe executed eight members of the Imperial family in the SpasskanT prison. Many of the Bolshevik officiails are grafters. It .was discovered after Uritsky's death that he had -amassed four million roubles by speculation. It was he who proceeded relentlessly against the speculators, and ordered many to be executed."—Aus.-N.Z. CabSe Assn. - y

TATE OF SIEGE DECLARED IN SIBERIAS (Rec. October 6, 5.5 p.m.) , Stockholm, October 5. The Bolaheviki have a state of siege in Siberia.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. CRISIS AT OMSK AVERTED PROMPT MEASURES.BY THE CZEOHO-SLOVAKS. Washington, October 8. Advices from Omsk .say that the Czecho-Slovak authorities, placed a strong military force in control of the city and prevented a coup d'etat by the Minister of : War (M. Michaelov).— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. THE TSAW'S FATE J AN ESCAPED EX-COURTIER'S . STORY. (Rec. October 6, 5.5 p.m.) London, October 4.. A RusWn ex-courtier; N who . has reached London, reported that the charred bodies of the Tsarina and her tour daughters were discovered in the rnins of the burned building. The informant confirms the stories of the grimmest horrors in iPetrograd. One grand/duchess had written to a friend in London begging olothes and food, as she was compelled to sell papers in the streets. Nine duchesses were confined in a single room and fed once daily.— United Service. \ •