THE RUSSIAN MIX-UP.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 September 1918, Page 2

THE RUSSIAN MIX-UP.

[per press association. COPYRIGHT.J INTERNAL RUSSIA. (Received This Day, at 9.25 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Sep. 24. The State Department has received confirmation of appalling conditions in 'Russia. There is ruthless slaughter of officers and leading citizens who arc shot in cellars at night, with guns muffled by silencers. Franco-British consuls at Moscow have been arrested.

LATE CZAR’S DIARY. (Received Tins Da*, at 9.50. a.m.) LONDON, Sep. 24. -An interesting picturo of the late Tsar’s life after his abdiction i s gleaned from fuller accounts of his diary published in Bolshevik newspapers, which records his sorrowful arrival ai Tsarkoeselo in 1917, with the sinister looting by the non-coms, occupying the great court of tho palace. He found children lying ill of measle s in a lightloss room, and mentions burning papers and sorting of possessions in view of his proposed departure to England. It shows how reluctantly li 0 submitted to Kerensky’s request only to stay at meal times with his family. 'The ex-monnrcli expresses disgust at tho soldiers’ studied insolence, and records our idiots’ decision to celebrate May Day procession and red-flagging. Other entries are in a tone of resignation and sorrow over Russia’s < ark prospects. It finally records joyfully and thankfully on June 19th the news of the successful offensive on th c southwestern front.