BOLSHEVIK RUSSIA

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 161, 3 April 1920, Page 7

BOLSHEVIK RUSSIA

CONGRESS AT MOSCOW j **" j LENIN EXULTING OVER TRIUMPHS ' j \ : (By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright London, March 30. wireless message from Moscow states '; that Lenin, presiding at the'inauguration I of an a&Russian Congress of Bolsheviks, . ; including Norwegian and Swedish dele- j gates, exulted in the fact that an ej- i hius.ted country had . defeated tho ! strongest Governments of the world, and by centralisation, self-sacrifice, and discipline had prevailed over Governments which incoherent groups. of capitalistio j beasts, had reduced to impotaaie.'-rAns.- i N.Z. Cable Assn. . j SOVIET INGRATIATING ITSELF WITH ■ CHINA i VARIOUS CONCESSIONS OFFERED. ■ j (Roc. April 2, 5.5 p.m.) j Peking, March 31.. j The Russian Soviet Government is steadily ingratiating itself witis Chinese j officialdom. The latest flattering lnss-' i saga conveys brotherly love, and an- j noitnej9 that the Red Army does not aim > at conquest ;n moving eastward, but J merely to rescue worknen and peasants. j front" the clutches of Generals Kenienoy, • ''.; Horvath, and the Jananese., Moscow nn/ i dertakrs to annul all treaties and nrivi- i leges Tsarist Russia armiired in China, j solemnly forgives the Chinese temporary \ nuwpsition to the Sovietp in 1918, • mm r.ffei's various concessions and gifts. j Everything, however, is dependent on tlio willingness of China to give peoplo com- • i)letc freedom to determine their own \.\ system of government—"The Times." • j REFUGEESIN" CRIMEA ' ? ': DANGER OF TWNG .WIPED OUT i . BY REDS.- x ; London, March 39. ; The "Morning Post's" Paris wrrespon- ) dent states tlmt tlitro are a hundred ■' thousand refugees in the Crimea at pre- ' ; s'nt. They arc all "gciiße-horn Russians, | who have escaped their would-be ester- i m'inators. Unless the Allies provide >{ shins and coal (illicitly tlicv will lie wiped out by the victorious Bolsheviks. The i refugees desire to go to Crete or Serbia, * until P.'nssia'is again tranquil.— Aus.-N.Z- < Cable Assn. % • i CAPTURES MVOROSSISK . '■ _ London, March 30. i A. Bolshevik wire!°s? message claims I ("lint the Red forces captured ten thousand 'j Prisoners at Novorossislc, and -fifteen ! thousand more prisoners were taken from lite forces retreating towards Geleudik.— ! AusV-N.Z. Cable Assn. " " ; ■ JAPANESE!^SIBERIA . ; SUFFER RFVFRF.T.r T N BATTLE % WITH RUSSIAN FORCES.' . 1 , j r " 'j (Rec. April 1. 9.20 p.m.) •. \ \ , Honolulu, Mnwh ,31. i According to a cablegram from Tbkio, Japanese troops near Nikolaiovslc. ■' in ! Siberia, suffered severe losses in a battle ; with Russian . forces.—Aus.-N.Z. Oab,d i Assn. j "ICEBOUND IN KARA SEA i AN APPEAL FOR HELP. j (Rec. April 2, 5.5 p.m.) V 1 v • _ Berlin, March 31. .A Moscow'wireless message states thai: .: telays of S.O.S. calls from tlw .ship Solovei. ice-bound in the Kara Sen, nave been received asking for help in humanity's name for eighty men,.women, and children who are perishing from cold and hunger. , .All coal has been exhausted, and those on the.ship ane burning wooden barrels. Ilie J-.n.ssian Government offers to fecom- ' 1 pense the British Government if it. will' dispatch an ice-breaker.—Ans.N.Z. Cabla Assn. » 1 FATE OF THE TSAR STORY OF EXECUTION / DISBELIEVED. • ; (Rec. April 2, 5.5 p.m.) . Pa " s . "Muroli 31. I Cflmmai.dant Laircs lias returned from the French Government Mission to Omsk He states that ho visited a house in Ekaterinburg where it was reported tho 1 w and hi? family were murdered. An examination left him scenticnil: as regards their fate. He adds that a Russian offi. : showed him letters appa'rently esfai-,- ' lisluns: tuat th T.sar was • alive in April, • 1019. The British militarv ' t've at Omsk also disbelieved the story of 1 the execution.—Aus.-N:Z. Ca'c'e-'lssn.' *s LONG-RANGE GUN "" ■PATENT PURCHASED BY FRANCE. j (Rec. April 2, 5.5 p.m.{ j Paris,' March 31. The French Government- has naid ; 100,000 francs for the patent of a long- . raiiso.enn.- The-Government-lias also outhorised the ?ale of the invention to England.—Ausl'-N.Z. Cable "Ass'n. ;