INTERNAL RUSSIA.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 July 1921, Page 3

INTERNAL RUSSIA.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION K USSIAN FAMINE REPORTS. IJJNDON, July 27. The “Morning l'ost” correspondent reports that hordes of starving Russian peasants are marching on Moscow, destroying everything en route and they entirely d- vnstated the town of Tamboff, three hundred miles .southeast of Moscow, overwhelming a Red army sent to stop them. The peasants have killed and eaten horses of Bolshevik cavalry, fire bridges and municipal services. The Red troops refused to shoot. The paper says that after hunger demonstrations and strikes 20,(518 women .were shot in Retrograd. The “Daily Express’’ Berlin correspondent states that the Soviets have proclaimed a state of siege in Retrograd and Moscow, and tha't a Russian paper in Berlin reports Trotsky was arrested.

LENIN CLIMBING DOWN. (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) COPENHAGEN, July 28 The “Polftiken’’ publishes a repoit from Moscow that in order to obtain foreign help, Lenin proposes to recognise the Russian public debt, which the Bolsheviks repudiated when they assumed power, hut will not commence payment of interest before 1925. A conference of Soviet delegates and foreign representatives will be convened to fix the amount of the debt and arrange for the immediate resumption of economic relations between Russia and European States.

RUSSIAN FAMINE. (Received This Day at 12.25 p.m.) LONDON, July 28 Hon Lloyd George In reply to a question in the Commons said the Government had not received official information regarding the famine in. Russia be-" youd what was supplied by the Russian Trade delegation. Wirless Russian information declares the reports appearing in the press are much exaggerated. Government has not received any request for assistance.