THE RUSSIAN TERROR

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 27, 26 October 1918, Page 7

THE RUSSIAN TERROR

AN APPALLING'SITUATION

MILLIONS OF PEOPLE DYING ! !

OF. STARVATION

■London," October 24. j The,"Daily News" correspondent at ] !stocklio|m, : Miv.'Hansomo, telegraphs j some extraordinary details of the Eus- i sian terror, based upon the 6tory' 'of j Major. Wardwoll, of the American Eed i Cross, whom the Soviet allowed to visit j the Moscow prisons regularly.." H> says: '< —"The situation in. Petrograd and Moscow is appalling; many millions of peo- I pie are doomed to death by starvation, j The people are dying in'the'streets; and horses are everywhere dropping dead, j The terror is a real thing. Lenin's doc- i tor advised Lenin to go toi the country, ] and Lenin said 'Where?' The doctor ', refused to suggest anywhere, saying that j if anything happened to Lenin Me would be' arrested and shot.' The girls em- , ployed by the Extraordinary Commission J of the Soviet display shocking indiffer- ; onco when relatives, come to inquire the ] fate of prisoners. A girl tarns up.,a j ledger and replies 'Shot' or 'Unknown,' j with utter disregard of the effect upon i her questioners. Sometimes half-a-dozen j people are in hysterics, at the samo time at the offices of the Extraordinary Com- ! mission. The girls do not regard the j counter-revolutionaries'as human beings. ! The leaders in the terror sometimes act ! against Lenin. On, one occasion Lenin ... appealed for an acquaintance, and the i Commission promptly shot the man."— I Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ' - ' - j —■ —r .. ' '■' j BRITISH TROOPS AT IRKUTSK. ■ (Eec. October 25,- 7.20 p.m.) ' London, October 24. . "The. Times", correspondent .at Irkutsk '] states that'Britishvtroops have arrived at 1 Irkutsk, en route to Rrasnoiarsk.—"The Times." . ... ■•'■•! .i • j SITUATION ON DWINA SATISFACTORY j ''..-' : , ' ' " I BOLSHEVIKI LOSING: HEAVILY.' j (Eec. October 25, 11.50 p.m.) . . j London, October 24. '. 1 ■The situation on' the D-ivina is 6atis- \ factory, bi)t Bolshevik bands are sabbtag- : ing on the Murman railway. "A number ' of railway-men in collusion with the-80l- j sheviki. have, given somo trouble in West- i em Siberia, holding up a train with t British troops. There is some confused { fighting •. in. Transcasnis, and 1 the I Bolsheviki are; losing heavily, and round j Dushak,' "whero thb Turkomans liave : overwhelmed the Bolshevik rearguard.— j Aus.-N.Z. fable Assn.. , . • • "i