BOLSHEVIK TRAP FOR THE ALLIES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 139, 7 March 1919, Page 5

BOLSHEVIK TRAP FOR THE ALLIES

CESSATION OF FIGHTING, THEN

PROPAGANDA

THE PRINCES ISLAND INVITATION By Telegrapli-Prese Association-Copyright London, March 5. The "Daily Chronicle's" correspondent at Geneva telegraphs:—"A correspondent at Kieff discloses the fact that Lenin and Trotsky planned to renew the BrestLilovak coup which proved so successful with Germany, and thus entice the Entente into an apparently advantageous peace with the view to undermining the Allied Governments by propnpagandii. An extraordinary council of war was held at the Kremlin, and it was decided to accept the invitation to Princes Island, with a view to subsequently developing tho Bolshevik doctrine throughout the world."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. . STATEMENT BY TROTSKY . COMPLETE VICTORY ASSURED, . HE SAYS. (Bee. March (i, 7.30 p.m.) Helsingfors, March 3. M. Trotsky has assured the pan-Rus-sian. Soviet Congress that the critical moment has passed, and complete victory is assured for the Bolsheviki. "Tho Allies." ho said, "are i unwilling to intervene. The moilitury,- situation as satisfactory . There were four tasks ahead: To occupy the Murman and Archangel coasts, seize river exits on the Black Sea, reach the Prussian frontier, and chase the enemy beyond the Urals. We shall achieve these at any cost.—"The Times."

FROM SLUMS TO PALACES

AND VICE VERSA. (Rec. March G, 8.40. p.m.)

Copenhagen, March 4. When the Bolsheviks entered Kieff they transferred the population from tb* eluin quarters to the houses oflhe wealthy people, and vice versa, 'ihey also made a levy on the city amounting to two hundred million roubles. The French troops hold Odessa and a small surrounding belt.—Keuter.

BOLSHEVIK ORDER FOR MOBILISATION

(Rec. March G, 8.40 p.m.)

London, March 4. A Bolshevik communique states that at Rk& all men up to forty-seven years of age, and officers up to fifty-five, have been called up. The Lettish Soviet Government has established three great concentration cainps for the internment of tlw middle classe3.-"The Times."