SOVIET COUNCILS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 143, 12 March 1920, Page 7

SOVIET COUNCILS

ABOLISHED IN RUSSIA

"DEMORALISED WORKMEN AND INDUSTRY"

By TsleEraDh—Pre«s Aasoolatlou—Qosyriehl (Rec. March 11, 7.35 p.m.) London March 10. A striking_ admission has been made by Mr. Philip Snowden in writing to a Labour paper. He confess:, that the Soviet Government of Russia was compelled to üboiise the local fcoviet Councils, and points out ®that the official order abolishing them admits that the councils signally failed to maintain order, anil actually produced disorders, and caused demoralisation ol workmen and industry. Mr. Snowden says this decision should- be ft lesson to others wanting to imitate Russia.—lmperial News Service. RUSSIAN PROFESSORS SLAUGHTERED. (Rec. March 11, 5.5 p.m.) Helsingfors, March 9. The secretary of the Russian Academy of Science states that there lias been a regular slaughter of Russian professors under the Bolshevik regime. He mentions that eight leading educationalists were killed.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. POLES DEFEAT THE REDS (Rec. March 12, 0.10 a.m.) i Warsaw, March 10. Official.—The Polish Army inflicted a smashing blow on the Bolsheviks on the Lithuanian front, compelling the Reds to retreat in panic. The Staff of the Forty-seventh Red Division were among, a thousand prisoners captured. The important strategical railway from Moryrz to Kalenkowitz was severed. The achievement stirred public enthusiasm as a triumph of tho first importance to the political fortunes of General Pilsttdslci, making him virtually absolute dictator of Poland.—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn. horrorslFsiberia, "HUMAN BEINGS CONVERTED INTO BEASTS." (Rec. March 12, 0.30 a.m.) London, March 10. British officers and other-refugees en route to A'ladivostok describe the scene west of Irkutsk as surpassinng all previous horrors, piles of naked and frozen corpses of men, women, and children being staked at every railwyy station, and. many being, gnawed, bv dogs. The Czechs. took the engines from the hosr pital. trains, leaving the sick to perish of cold and hunger. . It. was a case of human beings converted iito beasts. Tho Czechs' Atman has since .voluntarily demobilised the army, and. publicly bowed, forgiveness for the abuses and cruelties inflicted in his name. The Reds hope shortly to control the entire Siberian railway. Chineso depose three thousand soldiers a portion of- the line. The authorities asked the Japanese, commanders to undertake to guard other sections, replacing tho departing Ameri-cans.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable. Assn.