THE RUSSIAN MIX UP

Hokitika Guardian, 16 September 1918, Page 3

THE RUSSIAN MIX UP

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RUSSIAN HORRORS. Received, this day at 8.45 a.m. LONDON, September 15. Fugitives arriving in London toll sombre stories of the horrors in Russia, fully confirming the constant butcheries, burning aud shooting in Petrograd the people .are sharing like a beleaguered garrison. Bands of marauding peasants rob and are holding the joads outside the city. A curious German-Bolshevik alliance exists within the city, holding together, for mutual protection against the grow-

ing hatred of all classes. Of the Bolsheviks acting under German orders, i a Gorman Officer is commanding the ! troops and generally directing the outrages, ordering arrests, and conducting , daily hunts for Allied officers and par- ; tisans whoso lifoconsists of hairbreadth | escapes. They are compelled to change j their sleeping apartments nightly, and j adopt disguises. j The Germans wore responsible for the I recent arrest of seven thousand Riu,j sian officers. Horrible brutality was I inflicted on the officers. Many are ! legless or armless and they are herded j in small dungeons, without food or | drink, and sanitary provisions. Hundreds are dying of dysentry and starI vation.

| General Kuropatkin was arrested on j a charge of participation in a Bri- ! tisli conspiracy against the Bolshevik ; Government.

j THE RUSSIAN PEASANTRY, j (Received This Day at 1.5. p.m.) t NEW YORK, September 14. i Do.Aeh Fleurot cables from Stockholm:—“l have precise information that the peasants are organising and abandoning the Bolsheviks in great numbers. Great meetings were hcU». The peasants were ordered to withdraw • their support of the Bolsheviks, and : they have withdrawn from the Soviets.

Peasants in the Bolshevik Government, or Red Army were ordered to return to their villages within one month, the penalty of disobeyance being banished from the villages, while the peasants remaining with the Red Guards will be shot.”