BOLSHEVISM IN RUSSIA

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 112, 5 February 1919, Page 5

BOLSHEVISM IN RUSSIA

EXTERMINATING THE CULTURED CLASSES RED ARMY BECOME STRONG By.Telegrapli-Preas Assoeialion-Oopyright London, February 2. The "Morning Post's" correspondent, writing from Archangel, stales that news from Petrograd shows that Russia generally is in an appalling condition. The Bolsheviki continue their svstematio poN icy of exterminating the cultured ol&ses, starving them to death by stopping food rations, While they themselves, particularly in Moscow, indulge in disgusting orgies. They 6hoot on the frontier officers returning from imprisonment in Germany.

Not a day passes without hundreds, of people being shot, drowned, or beaten to death. ■ ' .

The Bolshevik army has become strong, both inequality and numbers, owing to compulsory mobilisation, and the incorporation of former officers, whose wives, ■sisters, and children are held as hostages, and murdered and outraged on the first suspicion that an officer does not sympathise with the' Bolsheviki.—Ans.-N.Z. Cable Aesn. GRAVE SITUATION ON NORTHERN FRONT GAS SHELLS SUPPOSED TO COME FROM GERMANY. ■ (Rec. February 4, 8.10 p.m.) Washington, February 2. Official advices from Northern Russia say_ that military officials regard the military situation as extremely grave. A detailed report has been sent to tie Supreme War Council. The Bolsheviki are reported to be using gas shells, which are supposed to be obtainetl from Germany, Tho United States War Department figures show that the Allied troops at present there number approximately six thousand.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

SOLDIERS OP OLD ARMY REVOLT. Stockholm, February 3. Fugitives from Petrograd report a' revolution by soldiers of the old Russian Army in Petrograd. Machine-gun fightinn occurred, and the artillery in Kronstadt bombarded Petrograd. There are many corpses in the streets.—Reuter.

MOSCOW A CITY OP THE DEAD. Stockholm, February 3. Travellers from Moscow state that the terrorism there has somewhat abated, but Moscow has become a city of the dead. ' All shops and restaurants are' closed, and starvation is claiming many vjctiins —Ans.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

BOLSHEVITCI CAPTURE KIEPF. London, February 3. The Dolsheviki have captured lueff.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable'Assn.' !

WINDAU IN BOLSHEVIKFS HANDS. (Rec. February 5, 1.15 a.m.) Amsterdam, February 3. The Bolsheviki havo captured the harbour and town of Windau.—Reuter.