RED RUSSIA

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 136, 4 March 1919, Page 7

RED RUSSIA

DESPERATE SITUATION IN PETROGRAI A DREADFUL STORY (Rec. March 4, 1.5 a.m.) Stockholm, March 3. 'Travellers from Petrograd slate tha the situation is desperate. "Human Tae 'ings, thin as latlu, wander the streets but their swollen faces are a sign of an proaching death from starvation. Lenin has been imprisoned for ■ thr© days for making a gpeech with a recon cil'iatory tendency. The Bolsheviki bonvbarded Narva witi five thousand shells, killing many peopl and emptying tlw town. ; The Bolsheviki committed awful out rages at Dorpat. They ordered a larg number of leading citizens into a cellar forced them to strip naked, and the <jhot every one with dumdum bullets-Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn. RED BOISHETOJIn ESTHONIA A GHASTLY REVELATION. Copenhagen, February 2G. An official report by Esthonian author: ties on Bolshevik atrocities in Esthoni states that three large graves on bein opened irevealcd eighty-two corpses wit their skulls shattered. An eye-witnes of the execution states that, the victim: were shot iiidifcrimiiiately under horriM' conditions. Similar bloodthirsty execu tions occurred at Derpat, the bodies bein dropped into the- river tlwough holes n the ice. Thirty women were killed a Narba, and stones were fastened to thei necks, and they were thrown into tli river.—Beuter. REPORTED GERMAN_ADVANCE ON RIG (Rec. March 3, 9.5 p.m.) Paris, March 2. The "Echo de Paris" publishes a Stocl holm mes;ap;e, under reserve, to the effec that three- German transports, have lam ed eight thousand troops under von de Goltz (P) at Libau, with the intentio: of re-occupying Riga—Aus.-M.Z. Übl Assn. THE INDUSTRIAL FAILURE ' FOREIGN ENTERPRISE TO BE ALLOWED. March 3* 7.25 p.m.) Stockholm, February 27. i decree by the People's Conimissarie announces that owing to the inability o the Soviety Republic to carry on certai industrial enterprises concessions will b granted to foreigners, especially with view to the construction ot a great nortli em railway, and the development ot vas stretches of Russian forest land.-Reutei