RED RUSSIA

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 126, 21 February 1919, Page 5

RED RUSSIA

PREPARATIONS FOR A. "REGULAR I BLOOD BATH" MOBILISATION ORDERED AT t KIEFF By Telesraph—Press Association—Oopyrisht(Rec. February 20, 8 p.m.) Odessa,. February 18. , t A message from KielT, dated February 13, states that the Bolsheviki have ordered. a.. general mobilisation, with-the i formation of shook battalions, for the ( Odessa front. Council of Bolshevik , Commissioners formed at Kieff lias drawn < up black lists, apparently in preparation ] for a regular blooi bath. Many of the 1 bourgeoisie and ex-officers have already , been sfibt, and the'first levy of fifty million rouble's has been imposed "upon 1 Ivieff.' The bourgeoisie ivomcn in the * Crimea have signed iv monster petition i to President Wilson invoking aid.— i Reuter. i . ECONOMIC SITUATION HOPELESS ; MOSCOW AND PETROGR-AD SOVIETS ' - AT VARIANCE.- ■ > (Rec. February 20, 8 p.m.) Stockholm, February 19. Differences, have arisen between the i Soviet Government at Moscow, headed by Lenin, which is willing to come to terms with the Allies owing to the hopeless economic situation, and the Soviet at Petrograd, headed by Trotsky and Zinoniest, which energetically protests, ■ stating that the Bolshevist occupation of the Ukraine offers a possibility of procuring grain a*nd fuel. However, reports, from Kieff state that the Ukrainans severely defeated the Bolshevists 20 kilometres from Kieff and ' elsewhere in Ukraine.—Reuter, DISPATCH OF UNITED STATES \, TROOPS URGED. Washington, February 19. Senator M'Cumber introduced a resolution in the Senate urging'the United States to. dispatch troops to Russia to combat.,the .. murderous- Bolsheviki and establish .a. stable Government.—Aus.--N.Z. Cable "Aijsn.; < • 1 THE MARMORHONFERENCE GOVERNMENTS REFUSE TO MEET . : . BOLSHEVIKI. . ;,(Rec, . February 20, 8 p.m.) ' '■ Vancouver, February 19. The. Siberian, Archangel, and South Russian Governments have formally declined to meet the Bolsheviki at Marmora.—Renter. ■ V SYMPATHY WITH RUSSIAN BOLSHEVISM ■EXPRESSED BY-NEW SOUTH WALES LABOUR PARTY. Sydney,' February 20. The annual report of the Labour Flirty, referring to- Bolshevism, states: ''The workers'of Australia are by.the slanderous attacks upon and vilification of the Bolshevik movement. The sympathy... of all {air-minded peoples must go out to the' Russians in their struggle to throw off the inhuman yoke of capitalism." Regarding the censorship tile report says that Australia is stil} under the heel of the censor. Innumerable instances are on record.of llio base political purposes to which this office has been subverted. The' report -concludes by saying that the presence of Senator Pearce, Six Joseph Cook, and Mr. William Huglies in London is fraught with grave danger as far as colonial autonomy is concerned, as the presence of the three Minister; permits the holding of executive meetir.gs and the passage of regulations.— Press Assn, AUSTRALIAN COMMISSIONER | OF TRADE """■ "" TO REMAIN IN AMERICA UNTIL JUNE. New York, February 15. At the request of Mr. W. M. Huglies and Mr. W. A. Watt, ' Mr. Braddon (Australian Commissioner to the United States)' has.'consented to remain _ in America till'the end of June. His original intention was to return to Australia in April.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. .