RUSSIAN SOVIET

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 29, 29 October 1920, Page 7

RUSSIAN SOVIET

FACED WITH SERIOUS FOOD CRISIS / COUNTERREVOLUTION FEARED By TelogrwU-Preiß Aasoclatlon-OoDnllfW Copenhagen, October 27. Lenin, in a newspaper article, states that the Republic has never before been faced with such n. serious crisis owing to the scarcity of food. Moscow and other workers' centres are absolutely starving. It is necessary to use forcß against the peasants to obtain food. All opposing musb be sent to concentration camps and punished.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. Helsingfors,.October I! 7. A report lias been received that the Russian .Soviet is again most anxious. Fearing a Moscow has been placed under an intensified state of siege. A proclamation has been issued that no mercy will be shown to the insurgents.—Reuter. MUTINY ON VOLUNTEER FLEET STEAMER ffiec. October 28, 5.5 p.m.) Tokio, October 27. The deck of the Russian volunteer fleet steamer Symbirsk, lying at Nagasaki, was the scene of a,Bolshevik rising yesterday, when fifty members of the crew attempted to seize the vessel and return to Vladivostok. The Symbirsk escajped seizure at Vladivostok when other vessels of the volunteer fleet were taken over, since when it had not visited Siberian ports. The captain and a loTal i section of the crew refused to surrender the ship upon the demand of a Vladivostok emissary, who was summoned by the Bolshevised section* The captain was badly boaten before police assistance arrived. The leaders of the , mutiny liave been arrested.—Renter.

CONCESSION TO AMERICAN

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RECOGNITION OF SOVIET

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Now York, October 27. Mr. .T. C. A. K. Martens, the selfstyled Soviet Ambassador, ha? announced that he has received a cablegram from M. Tchitcherin (Foreign Minister) stating that a syndicate composed of Americans has obtained a concession of ■100.000 square miles in Siberia for exploitation of oil, coal,, and fisheries. Negotiations are proceeding with the syndicate to become the Soviet's fiscal agents in America, financing purchases up, to 500,000,000 dollars.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. Washington, October 27,

Mi - . Colby (Secretary of State) has announced that the American representative at Riga has aabled that he has learned that Americans are negotiating .with the Soviet concerning a concession, and have discussed with Lenin, the question of recognition by America in the event of Senator Harding being elected, Speaking at Marion, Senator Harding denied any knowledge concerning the Russian concessions, or recognition of the Soviet by Washington. Official circles are stirred by the reports of the concessions in Russia. It is pointed out that tho Government has warned Americans that any business relations or undertakings with the Soviet would not be recognised or protected.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.