THE RUSSIAN CHAOS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 106, 29 January 1919, Page 5

THE RUSSIAN CHAOS

DISPUTE. BETWEEN LENIN AND TROTSKY DIFFERENCE BECOMES MORE ACUTE By Telegraph-Prta Association-Copyright I Stockholm, January 25. Detnile nre leaking out concerning the dispute between Leiiin and Trotsky, reported on January 8. 'Trotsky, with i'eters, was determined to continue terrorism, nml had no fear of intervention, because he believed he could convert tho Allied armies to Bolshevism.- Lenin favoured a compromise, fearing that the Allies would use the economic weapon. The difference has become more acute .since the Spartacusians' defeat ili Germany, and developments are awaited with interest.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Aesn. BRITISH ADVANCE FROM BAKU TAKE POSSESSION ■ OP TRANSCAUCASLiN RAILWAY. (Rec. January 28, 7.25 p.m.) London, January 2". Tho British have advanced from Baku and taken possession of tha Transcaucaeiftn railway and occupied Petrovsk and Astrakhan.—Keiiter. DEATH OF THE ROMANOFFS COUNT TOLSTOI DESCRIBES THE LAST SCENES. (Rec. January 2S, 7.25 p.m.) The Hague, January 27. Count Tolstoi, a relative of the famous writer, has. given the German newspapers a new version of tho Tsar's death. He says that while the Tsar- was living at Ekaterinburg the Red Guards were informed of an attempt to be made to restore the liomanoffe. A meeting of the Guards, with the local Soviet, pronounced the death sentence. Tho lied Guards rushed to the bedroom occupied by tho Tear and the Tsarina. The Tsar dressed himself and the Tsarevitch, and then .said: "I am ready." The'leader of the Red Guards roughly declared: "Our visit does not concern you alone. We intend to exterminate you, your wife, and the whole cursed brood." The leader turned to his companions, and said, "Out with them! ' Tin's is no time tor compliments." The Tsarina and the Grand Duchesses, weeping convulsively ' mid praying, were dragged to'?he celiars, where the whole family were shot . with revolver?. The bodies were then soaked with petroleum and burned — "The Times." BOLSHEVIK OUTRAGES AT NARVA THE LETTS APPEAL TO THE ENTENTE. (Rec. January 28, 11.15 p.ml) Stockholm, January 25. Striking details from Narva show that the defeated Bolsheviki left the town wrecked, pillaged, and burned, after levying heavy fines. The majority of the prosperous inhabitants wire murdered and the corpses'strewn in the streets. The Lcttlaud situation is very critical. The Bolsheviki approached a few mils? from Libau. The Lettish Provisional Government is not likely to be assisted from Sweden, and is now appealing to the Entente, pointing, out that Lettland is the last Baltic rampart against Bolshev--13111. The weak, raw defenders face a formidable invasion by the fanatical, plundering Red Guards, aided by bloodthirsty Chinese'and Korea'i mercenaries. —"Tho Times."