RUSSIAN AFFAIRS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 140, 8 March 1919, Page 7

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS

ATTEMPT BY LENIN TO DECEIVE THE ENTENTE BOLSHEVISM THREATENED WITH COLLAPSE By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright London, March G. The "Daily Chronicle" publishes a rcimirknble story from Kiofl', detailing the dramatic War Council at the Kremlin in Moscow, when the Entente's invitation was received .to send delegates to Princes Islands. Trotsky, who was greatly surprised nt tho Entente's proposal, informed tho War Council that the internal situation was desperate. Owing to farnino and plague tho Bolshevik State was threatened with collapse, entailing destruction of the Red aimies. The Extremists who advocated red terror favoured continuance of. the struggle, but Lenin's speech clinched tho matter. Lenin said: "The time lias come to conclude a second Brest-Litovsk treaty, and this time with tho Entente. Let them proclaim to tho world that they liars subdued us, and that tho Soviet nepublio has capitulated unconditionally. We shall know that wo have only, concluded a truce in order to complete our preparations'for n decisive onslaught will assure a triumph."—Ans.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

GREAT NUMBER MURDERED BY . B6LSHEVIKI CHINESE EXECUTIONERS EMPLOYED. (Rec.. March 7, .7.35 p.m.) London, March G. In the House of Commons Mr. C. B. Harmsworth said that though the precise. figures .were not obtainable, it was true that the Bolsheviki had murdered a great.number..of men, women, and children, employing, a considerable force ofChinese executioners.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ■ ' 'GENERAL DENIKIN'S VOLUNTEERS SUPPORTED BY ALLIES. London, March 5. ■ Mr. Cecil Harmsworth, Parliamentary Under-Secretary to tho Foreign Office, r « e ,v nff to a sV estioi! ' said that the Allies were supporting General Denikin's volunteers in South Russia. ; These troops' were' cordially cooperating with the Don Cossacks against tho Bolsheviki. Britain had entered into no negotiations to support" any Ukrainian party. Ho understood _ that Petlura was | aiming at tho- establishment, of en independent Ukraine.—A.us,i-N,Z. Cable Assn. BOLSHEVISM POUND'S CHIEF PERIL WHOLE COUNTRY NEAR STARVATION. ■ _ London, March G. ine Morning Post" correspondent at Warsaw states- that Bolshevism is the chief peril of Poland. The whole country is near starvation, and hardly a machine is working in the industrial areas. lhe Germans took or destroyed ill'—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.