BOLSHEVIK CRIMES CONTINUE

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 22, 21 October 1918, Page 5

BOLSHEVIK CRIMES CONTINUE

MORE HORRORS FROM RED RUSSIA BRITISH CONSUL-GENERAL'S EXPERIENCE New York, October 17. Mr. Doßch Flourot, the Now York "World's" correspondent, cables from Ohriatiania: "The Bolsheviki are killing mill-otfners and engineers who ore capable of reorganising tho disrupted Russian industries. A tramload or refugees from Moscow report that refugees are being shot by the hundred. More than seventy Allied officials are imprisoned. Refugees here ■mchitle British and French Consular officials. Tho British Consul-General, Mr. R. Lockhart, interviewed, said: "An attempt was made on August 3 to ?s----sassma-to Lenin. On the same night the British Embassy in Petrograd was raided. I was twice arrested, and kept live days in close confinement. I uas then sent to tho condemned cells at the Kremlin, but afterwards liberated. Ino cells were, overcrowded. There was not oven room to sit down. The conditions were appalling, the food revolting. Several inmates went insane. Gonoriil Lavergne and the British officials escaped to the Norwegian Consulate when the Emtassy raid occurred, but were besieged by the Bolsheviki. Tho food and water supplies wore cut eft for several days." Other refugees, interviewed, said the Bolsheviki were stronger than over. The conditions were almost hopeless. Well-known persons in Petrograd con-

tinue to mysteriously disappear.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. ALL BRITISH SUBJECTS OUT OF RUSSIA. London, October 18. All British subjects have left Russia. The journalists and others imprisoned in the Fortress of Peter and Paul havo been released.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. BOLSHEVIK RETREAT WEST OF THE URALS Now York, October 18. The New York "Times" correspondent at Peking states that the Bolsheviki have retreated west of the Urals. Tho Allies hold all the linos of commu-nication.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. UKRAINIAN MONARCHY (R«c. October 20, 5.5 p.m.) London, October 19. Tho "Deutsche Tages Zoitung" states that the Ukrainian Parliament will meet shortly to proclaim the Ukraino Monarchy.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. FURTHER NEWS OF THE GRAND DUKE NICHOLAS (Rcc. October 20, 5.5 p.m.) London, li). A wireless Russian message states that it is reported from KietF that the Grand Duke Nicholas, ox-general-issimo, lias arrived there. M. Razauoff, ex-Foreign Minister, has gone to Kieff. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. [Both the Grond Duko Nicholas and M. Sazanoff had previously been executed—by cablegrams—hut in the present state of communications from Russia high personages perish and reappear with Iwffling frequency.]