SOVIET RUSSIA

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 61, 5 December 1919, Page 7

SOVIET RUSSIA

BOASTS OF MILITARY ACHIEVEMENTS

BUT WANTS PEACE

Br Telegraph—Pres6 Assoclation-OoDvrlnW London, November 30. A wireless message from Moscow boasts of the triumphs of the R«d Army during its two years of slruggle against the efforts of home and foreign counter-revolu-tionaries to strangle the Soviet Republic. "Our victories have humbled tho pride of hanshtv international capitalists, and thev now seem willing to enter into peaco negotiations. Soviet Russia wants peace, and is prepared to pay its debts anrt grant other concessions; but it willjiot accent a neaee that will enslave and strangle the Republic.''—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. POLITICAL MURDERsIN PETR()GRAD TORTURING PRISONERS FOR IN- . FORMATION. Reval, November 30. Following the latest series of political muraers in Petrograd, the Reds, arrested between 500 and (iOfl who were connected with thros anti-Bolshevik organisations. Fischer, of tho German Secret Service, denounced Elisarov, an ex-soldier, who acted.as the connecting link in the organisations. Elisarov refused information until he was tortured. Thumbscrews were used and strips of flesh cut off and baked in his presence. By this means the names of many anti-Bolshev-ist officers and British agents were secured.. It is estimated that the Reds executed over 1300 in the Petrograd district in November. The recent stages of the tragic history .illustrates the cynical German plan of first securing the extermination of the Russian intelligence officers. and then betraying tho Bolsheviks themselves—"The Times." THE SOVIET AND BRITAIN "SOFT SOAP" FROM RED FOREIGN OFFICE. London, November 30. The "Sunday Express" correspondent at Reval has received a statement froni M. Tehitcherin, Soviet Minister for Foreign Affairs, declaring that Mr. Lloyd George's peaceful speeches are the first step'towards a sane policy, and prepare tho way for a good understanding between Russia and Britain. Mr. Lloyd George, who had previously yielded to the influence of narrow-minded French politicians, dominated by an ignorant and reactionary military clique, was now influenced' by tho [•sympathy of British labour for Bolshevism. and also by British business men, I who understand where their rcalj interests lie. Russia wants peace, and also economic help from countries like Brit-ain—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. "PAINTING THE. LILY.-" Copenhagen, December 3. The "Dnilv Herald" interviewed Litvinoff. who denied that Russia had relations with Germany for economic reasons. Russia would far prefer relations with Britain or America. The real reason for the Allied intervention could be summed up in tho word' "concessions," and the Bolsheviki, being realists, preferred to grant concessions to wasting Russian strength in an endless war. lie demanded a full investigation into tlio alleged atrocities.—Renter. A HINT TO ESTHONIA. (Roc. December ■!■, !MO p.m.) Paris, December 2. Tho Supreme Council has aecided to renuest the Esthonian Government to show moro regard for General Yudenitch — Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS. Copenhagen, November 30. Denmark is negotiating with Litvinoff for the exchange of Danes imprisoned in Russia for, Russian soldiers in Jutland and others who are interned and aro willing. to be repatriated.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. JAPANESE TROOPS IN SIBERIA. Paris, November 30 General Stefanoff, Ivolchak's Minister of t War. declares that there aro 85.000 Japanese troops in Siberia—Aus.-N.Z, Cable Assn. • BOLSHEVISM IN UNITED STATES RMMA GOLDMAN TO BE DEPORTED. Washington, November 30. The Department of Labour has announced that tho, extremist agitator Emma Goldman will be deported, probably to Russia.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.