RUSSIAN BOLSHEVIKI

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 116, 10 February 1919, Page 5

RUSSIAN BOLSHEVIKI

LENIN HAS SOVIETS AND RED ARMY UNDER THE WHIP UNDERSTANDING WITH THE . ALLIES DESIRED By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright (Rec. February 9, 5.5 p.m.) New York, February 6. In an interview'an American traveller who recently arrived from Russia, said: "Lenin has whipped the Soviets into something resembling ordinary Congress. Lenin has the Red Army so disciplined that it will execute orders nobody dared to give it a'year ago. Lenin and his followers do not want the peas, ants to own land Dr the workers to control the factories, but they do not oppose the masses in their wishes, because they wish to govern Russia,' and establish 'their own principles of government by degree. The Bolshevik rulers are anxious to Teach an understanding with the Allies, but dare not say so without issuing defiant statements and revolutionary proclamations for the consumption of the masses in Russia."— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.. COMMUNISTIC REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA. (Rec. February S, 5.5 p.m.) Berne, February 8The Bolsheviks havo proclaimed a Communistic Republic of Lithuania and -White Ruthenia as a federal part of the Soviet Republic— Cable Assn. DENMARK SEVERS RELATIONS WITH BOLSHEVIK! (Rec. February 9, 11.10 p.m.) Copenhagen, February 8. A wireless message states that Denmark has severed relations with the Bolsheviki, whose Ambassador, Surimi, : has departed with the entire personnel of the legation and tho propaganda bureau.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. MURDER oTgRAND DUKES (Rec. Feßruary 9, 5.5 p.m.) ■ Petrograd, February 7. Reports state that the Grand Dukes Paul, Nicholas, and George were shot on January 27- in the courtyard of Deninbimy. prison by order of a 6peoial commission/with 1-11 men end 28 women who were accused of. participating in alleged Anglo-French intrigues. Nicholas was arrested in December and confined in a small cell with fourteen others. Owing to starvation and ill-treatment, Nicholas was too weak to walk and was carried to execution on a wheelbarrow, in which he wns shot by saijors and Chinese, who provided the firing party.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.