THE RUSSIAN MIX-UP.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 October 1918, Page 1

THE RUSSIAN MIX-UP.

[PKU PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT.] THE RED TERROR. LONDON, Sep. 28. The “ Lokal A nziegor’sMoscow correspondent, telegraphing in the middle' of September, gives a frightful, account of the Red Terror. He said the red billow of blood was (lowing from Most cow over the whole empire. The Bolshevik leaders declare the Red Terror will purify the atmosphere saying tint executions are nothing compared with' the millions sacrificed in the war. During the whole French revolution not .so many aristocrats wore executed as-wo re executed in Russia the last mouth, with only the faintest show of trial. An extraordinary commission, with branches and sub-branches in the provinces was ordering executions as it pleased. The last decree, ordering the seizure and execution of tiie hourgeoise as hostages whenever counter revolutionaries create a disturbance, was surpassing any previous horrors. Recent executions include former Ministers to the Czar, Tskelioglavitolt’, Cliwostoff, Makarofl, Protopopoff, and many others playing an im port ant part in the most recent history. They were brought before the Court and ordered to reveal all secrets of the Czar’s Government. Afterwards they were dragged from cellars at the dead of night, conveyed to Petrovsky Park and shot hv sailors. Details of those wholesale nocturnal executions are kept- secret. They take place in a guarded square, brilliantly lighted with are lamps where n squad of soldiers is always kept in readiness to receive victims from prisons. No time is wasted and no pity expended. The majority meet death with dignity. Executions in tlu* provinces included numbers of well-born women and priests. Tlu* executioners become victims of the execution habit, like morphia maniacs and eagerly volunteer their services, and are unable to sleep unless they have sliol some one dead. Several Grand Dukes, members of the Kerensky Cabinot. were kept in prison in Moscow. The Rolsheviiks laughingly tell the people, don’t he impatient they are only spared till a little later. The relatives of (he hostages know nothing of the day or hour of execution. Wives, mothers and sweethearts are ignorant of the fate of their loved ones, and go everywhere seeking lidings. Ihe wholesale terror liar, had a bludgeonlike effect. So cowed and terrorised are the population that the whole of Moscow eonld be put to the sword without an insurrection. AT ARCHANGEL. NEW YORK, Sept. 29. Delayed Press despatches from Archangle snv that American troops are lighting victoriously in all* sectors in northern Russia. The Americans are co-operating with the Russians. The British have captured a number if villages in the last few days in a more than a fifty mile advance along I lie Dwina river. The Bolsheviks are now fleeing south to Kotlas, 235-miles from Archangel. British and Russian aeroplanes are bombing the enemy continually. Serbian troops are operating with the Allies on the Murman coast of Siberia. Martial Law at Vladivostok is < reefed against enemy agents and Bolshevik agitators. , POPE SAVES GRAND DUKES. ROME, Sep 29. The Vatican announces that as the ncs,lit cf the Pope’s intervention, the Russian Government lias decided to remove all the Grand Dukes to the Crimea for safety.