BOLSHEVISM

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 100, 22 January 1919, Page 7

BOLSHEVISM

TERMINATION OF PROPAGANDA OFFERED IP ALLIES WILL ENTER PEACE NEGOTIATIONS

By Telegraph-Press 'Assooiatton-OopyrlßM

I . Copenhagen, January 17. ,; M. Litvinoff has again! sent a mes- " sage_ to President Wilson, offering ,to terminate theßolshevist world pro- '■ paganda if the Allies will enter, into peace negotiations.—Aus.-N.Zi < Cable ' AsSh.'■;.■•' '.: ,' '■ •" fOn at least two occasions' recently offers have been made to-the" Allies by' the Bolsieviki for the conclusion of ; peace; but hitherto they have been declined =on account of ..the inability of the Allies to.recognise the authority Of, ; the Bolshevik' group as a' Government.] THE RETREaTaT REVAL CAUSED BY NEWS OF; COUNTER- ,, • MOVEMENT. ~'. , (Rec. January 21, 11 p.m.): ■; / '; '■■'...■■'-' " Copenhagen; January 17. , .The Bolsheyiki. at Reval. are-hastily '.retreating, owing, to news, that a coun- . .ter-revolutibharj'moyement'had. broken ' out;in Petrograd.—Aus.-N;Z... Cable ', Assn.V. .■:'':• '.':'■. ■' .. -\, .",'. ',:'-... .. "., .' FURTHER BLOODSHED: :.'.TOVER 300 'PEOPLE fSHOT AT ' '.;■;,,'.;;:.;. DORPATv"■;.;,' ; />. ■;-.. ,(Rec. January 21/ 11' p.m.)' Heisingfors, January 19.' Before the evacuation-of Dorpat the ■ Bolsheviki' shot 22Smen. and 80-. wo;men, .including the Bishop of Esthonia and four Lutheran pastors.—Renter. BOLSHEVIK |OVmMENT'S BUDGET .;'AN,ENORMOUS DEFICIT. • ■ A.;'(Rec. January 21, 10.15 p.m.) Stoo'khblm, January .18. " ' Petrograd advices .'state that the Bpl- • shevik' Budget .forecasts for 1919 totals four hundred; thousand million . roubles ■ ■(■?)',' The.'deficit .;■ wi11..'.-. be.'.-; enormous. .' : For .'example,'.--the ...postal-.and. telegraphic, expenditure, exceeds: the revenue by over fi&een hundred million roubles.-..-'r-United.'Service.'.'■'.'.''l'-'-->;..■•■•'; ~-.{.;■' : fThe.valne of.the.roiible is 25.i'1.6d., so that four- hundred thousand-million, roubles would, be.':■ equivalent to,Xover fort.V'two -thousand million , pounds sterling/] :'.. ; . .. '■<-:„ 'x.l\\:., - ■'),' -.

EXECUTIONS IN FINLAND

OFFICER, FOR: NOT

MAINTAINING THE AVERAGE. (Rec. January'2l','-irp.m.) '

-:■ ~-,..;• Copenhagen, January 19. Finland"state that\»aia : Bolshevik- Commissioner Uritsi signed over eight: thousand [death:, .warrants.' His successor, 'Boiki, has been dismissed because Ke. .could no);', maintain ths same average.-^-Aus.-NiZ.,Cable Assn..