RUSSIAN FAMINE

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 277, 17 August 1921, Page 5

RUSSIAN FAMINE

ACCENTUATING BRUTALITY OF BOLSHEVIK RULE GOVERNMENT MAINTAINED BY REGIME OF TERROR By Telegraph—Press Assentation-- Copyright London, August 15. The “Daily Mail’s” Warsaw correspondent reports that the famine in Russia ie only accentuating tho appalling brutality of the Bolshevik rule. Women commissars in Moscow, doped with cocaine, arc killing through sheer lust of blood. Government is only maintained by the regime of terror. The peasants are rising in tho Ukraine against the Government’s corn requisitions. Refugees trekking to Poland are gaunt and emaciated spectres, many of whom have been practically without food for a fortnight. Butter costs 15,000 roubles a pound, bread 60,000 roubles, and potatoes 2000 roubles.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. THE BOLSHEVIK METHOD STARVING FUGITIVES ORDERED TO BE SHOT. (Rec. August 16, 10.5 p.m.) London, August 16. It is reported from Paris that Communist regiments are being dispatched to the interior of Russia, with orders to shoot the starving peasantry, who are trying to cross from one Government to 'another. —Reuter. RELIEF ORGANISATIONS SOVIET’S RESTRICTIONS ON AMERICANS. Glee. August 16, 10.5 p.m.) London, August 15. A message from Riga states that Litvinoff has advised the American commissioners that the Soviet will not allow any American who was in Russia during the revolution to accompany the relief organisations. It is contended that this decision Is due to the fact that the Americans have seen and know too much, and could not be deceived by the Bolsheviks. —Reuter. SOVIET’S CHANGED POLICY NOT OPPORTUNE TO AWAIT WESTERN REVOLUTION. London, August 15. The “Daily Mail’s” correspondent in Russia states that Krassin informed the Economic Council that the Moscow Soviet intended to remove all Bolshevik gold from England. Ho added: "It is no longer opportune to await the out break of a revolution in Western Europe. We must strive for some kind of cooperation with the Western European capitalists.” Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ESCAPE OF A PRINCESS PRETENDED MARRIAGE WITH A BOLSHEVIK. (Rec. August 16, 10.5 p.m.) London, August 15. Princess Tatiana Kourakin has arrived in Paris. She was imprisoned for three months in Russia, and escaped by pretending marriage with a Bolshevik, paying, him twelve million roubles to play his part.—Router. CONFERENCE OF SOVIET REPUBLICS IN OPPOSITION TO WASHINGTON GATHERING. London, August 15. The Riga correspondent of “The Times" reports that Moscow papers state that tho Soviet is considering the summoning of a conference of the Chinese, Mongolian, and Far East Soviet Republics, in opposition to the Washington Conference, with the object of defending their common interests against the predatory Imperialism of Japan, America, England, and France. The conference will discuss questions of Customs and transport tariffs, trade, river shipping, and the handing over of the Chinese Eastern Railway vto China.—“ The Times.”