RUSSIAN MIX-UP.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 October 1920, Page 2

RUSSIAN MIX-UP.

(By Electric Telegraph—Conyri^nt.' SOVIET LEADERS REMONSTRATE. LONDON, Oct. 4. The “Morning Post’s” Riga correspondent states:—“The international external situation indicates that the Bolsheviks’ position was never more precarious than‘it is now. ' The Soviet newspaper, “Isvestia” pub lishes an article written by M. Trotsky, declaring that the Soviet army has been weakened and that the people hare become indifferent towards the Polish war. He points out that the workmen and peasants must understand that if ' the army suffered another serious jdel feat, the position of the Soviet Repub. : lie would become catastrophic. . . 1 M. Rodek, the noted Socialist writer, 1 in an article in the same issue of “Isvestia.” blames the Russian workmen for a disinclination to face the fact that 1 the Soviet Republic depends at present exclusively on its warlike capabilities. It is stated that information from 1 other sources confirms the reports of a ■ serious rising of Russian peasants, ow. 1 in<r to the Soviet Government forcibly requistioning food supplies to enable the cities, especially Moscow and Petra 1 cn-ad to live through the winter. ;,_m ' " The most formidable rising is that ! reported at Tambov, where peasants ' the railway lines to prevent the arrival of military reinforcements. Other ser- • ions rising are that in Saartorf a|nd 1 Smolensk districts, the soldiers desert--1 ing and joining the peasants for food. 1 The Soviet Government’s difficulties in obtaining food supplies have been increased by a bad harvest and by a ' tendency of the peasants to restrict pro 1 auction, as the city purchasers have been able to offer only worthless paper money for the surplus food supplies... Disturbances are also occurring ! among city workmen owing to a food shortage. ~ It is reported the workmen at the famous Putiloff Munition Works « Petrograd, and also some railwaymen, revolted, and that troops aind artillery suppressed the revolt. It is reported that while Mr Trotsky was reviewing some troops in A oscow some of the soldiers broke the ranks and gathered round him, demanding bread. ARMISTICE DENIED. Reuter’s' Telegrams' (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, October 4. There is no confirmation of the Warsaw report that a, Polish-Lithuanian armistice has been concluded. On the contrary-, according to the latest Lithuanian information, severe fighting was in prepress on Saturday, with heavy casualties on both- sides. Neither had the Lithuanian Government accepted the suggested Polish demarcation i; n e which it considers unjustifiable,.