THE RUSSIAN MIX UP.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 February 1918, Page 2

THE RUSSIAN MIX UP.

POLICE CAPTURE SMOLENSK. AMSTERDAM, Feb. 10. \ Advices from Vienna state that the Poles captured Smolensk from the Bolsheviks. RED RIOT IN FINLAND. MURDER, and pillage. COPENHAGEN February 10. Finnish travellers from Helsingfors state that a hundred are killed daily in the streets. Russian sailors armed with swords and bayonets dash from tile warships killing indiscriminately. Hordes of ■gathered ruffians are plundering and murdering in Helsingfors. The harbour is strewn with corpses Paving stones in the streets are red with blood. Two members of the Diet were murder ed, and the fate of five others is unknown. Hie Hotel Kernys, where many foreigners were residing, was bombarded, While murder and pillage is at their height. A proclamation is distributed in the streets calling on the people to resist the red terrorj and calling on the officials to dono&il important Government documents. Many soldiers are sick of the slaughter, and are desirous of reftii niug ,tb -Russia ; but. the Red Guards prevent them, even imprisoning some of the liussian soldiers. AN AMAZING INCIDENT. A SUDDEN EXECUTION. STOCKHOLM, February 10. Wireless Roumanian The Legation from Petrograd arrived after a perilous journey through Finland. The Bo'/siWik Courier, Smirnov, travelled in the slime train with the Roumanian Minister, Dhimatidi, protecting the latter. An amazing' incident occurred .at Haparanda where Smirnov received a telegram from Trotsky ordering him to kill Diamandi; but the Finlander: having a kuowledge of the contents o the telegram executed Smirnov in tin presence of life astonished Roumanians SOVIETS CAPTURE KIEFF THE RADA WIPED OUT, , AUSTRALIAN* & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION & REUTER.] Received, this day at 8.45 a.m. LONDON, Feb. 11. A Russian wireless official messng; ! from Brest Litovsk informs Trotsky tha J prior to the Bth the whole of Kieff wa 1 in, the hands of the Soviets, with th' exception of Perchersky Monastery, where remnants of the Kieff Rada wer< entrenched. Perchsky was captured on the Bth and the remnants of thRada: forces fled. Nothing remains c" the Rada hut gad memory, and its dele gation' at Brest Litovsk is therefore a non-existent authority.

ANOTHER VIEW OF PEACE. Received, this day at'B.4s a.m. WASHINGTON February 11. The New York Herald’s Stockholr correspondent interviewed Oroovsky tli Bolshevik Minister in Sweden who sail the Bolsheviks are nearer war with Ger maliyV thaw ever since the revolution.