INTERNAL RUSSIA.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 February 1920, Page 2

INTERNAL RUSSIA.

(I? y Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) further bolshevik gain. 'LONDON; February 25. A Bolshevik wireless message claims they have occupied Khiva.

POLAND AND LITHUANIA. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) NEW YORK, Feb. 26,

The New York “Times” Washington correspondent states that aceoiding to a cablegram received by a Lithuanian representative here from lvovena, the Inter-Allied Commission suggested the formation of a military agreement between Lithuania and Poland against the Bolsheviks. Lithuania, before agreeing to the proposal, requested tflat the League of Nations be asked to guarantee the execution of such an agreement, and that Poland should recognise the independence of Lithuania.

“WORKING NIGH AND DAY.” NEW YORK, Feb. 26. Chopping in an interview, said when the Russian railway transport was m ( good working order the Russian workers will surprise everybody by the volume of their output. Chopping says that public opinion in Western Europe and America must understand that Russia was now tranquil and orderly. Members of the Government are far from hatching schemes of robbery, spoliation and aggression. They are working day and night, almost in a fanatical spirit to build up an output. They state,that only Russians who have acquired seltreliance and business efficiency by visit--i„, r Western democracies have proved capable of handling the national helm after the Czar’s death. Being exiles thev necessarily were Extremists In Russia therefore, they jumped at a single bound from despotism to Socialism.

TERRIBLE CONDITIONS. IN SIBERIA AND SOUTH RUSSIA (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) NEW YORK, Feb. 26. The conditions in Siberia and South Russia are appalling. The victims of typhus are laying about the streets. There are masses of corpses in the cemeteries being eaten by dogs. Twenty thousand are affected by spotted typhus at Omsk. Four hundred were found frozen to death in their beds, , The chief obstacle in. combating the scourge is the absence of medicines and soap. There is no scarcity of underclothing, but cannot keep it clean. The sanitation of a vast number of houses is deplorable because the pipes burst, and cannot be imported. A terrible cholera epidemic threatens when the thaw comes.