BOLSHEVISM

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 97, 18 January 1919, Page 7

BOLSHEVISM

FEARFUL ATROCITIES IN RUSSIA

BRITISH DEFEAT BOLSHEVIK FORCES

By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyrißht London, January 14. The '".Morning- Post's".' .Stockholm correspondent .says it... is feared. that liibnu.has fallen into Bolshevik hands. Refugees describe '.-fearful Bolshevik atrocities in Lattlarid. In' one village of ,1(100 inhabitants, over 500 were murdered in cold blood, and all the women w;ere • outraged, being considered national'property. Thev were taken into'large common-houses and subjected to oral and physical torture that baffles description: - German reports state that" anti-Bolshevik mutinies have broken out in the-Petrograd garrison, Aus.-NX 'Cable • Assm 'New York," January 11 Tlie Washington correspondent of the New York '"rimes" reports that advices to the' State 'Department- 'say that British-troops landed at Riga, ind defeated the Bolshevik forces. The situation is improving.—Aus.-N.Z"; Cable Assn. ;. • PETROGRAD GARRISON MUTINIES ; POSITION OP THE BOLSHEVIKI ; - UNDERMINED. (Rec. January. 18, 0.50.a.m.) New York, January IS. ' 'The ■'"World's": Stockholm -correspondent states that according to Helingsfora advices' the ' Soviet "troops forming:' tlie garrison at Petrograd mutinied; aii'd refused to go "to the front. • The Bolshevist defeat at Perm greatly "undermined the : 'Bolsheviki's position. Trotsky, mounted on a wl|.\te horsei was present at the Perm battle. He returned to; Moscow greatly. depressed. . The Bolshevik Press is pessimistic, and-'confesses that the Bolshevik Siberian army isi worthless. troops are being, sent to the Siberian front,from.; the Ukraine.-r-Aua.-N.Z. Cable Assn. • ■' ; ARRESTS lIN SWITZERLAND. , ■■■■:-• rGcnsva, January 14. . Twenty. Russian and' German Lolsheviki'were arrested in Lausanne, and others were -arrested in Geneva. —Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.' - • FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WATCHFUL. PREVENTING DISSEMINATION OF PROPAGANDA. , " (Rec. January 17, 10.45 p.m.) Melbourne, January: 17. The Federal Government is carefully watching events. savouring of . Bolshevism. Action is contemplated to prevent the 1 dissemination of propaganda and influence in any manner endangering the Commonwealth. —Press Assn. .. . ■ THE OUTBREAK IN ARGENTINA CONTINUANCE- OF DESULTORY . ■ - FIGHTING., New York, January" 14. ' The United Press correspondent at Buenos Aires states:—"lt is reported that President Iriguyen asked Congress to declare a' state of s;ege and' to call out. the reserves of the 1397 class (22 years old). ■'• Desultory street fighting continues, iii spite of t!ie settlement of the strike; Members of the' alleged Soviet, existence (if wiV:ch was discovered'recently, deny a.«,v'connection with the Russian Bakheviki " —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.