SOVIET RUSSIA.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 April 1923, Page 2

SOVIET RUSSIA.

UKRAINE PEASANTS’ REVOLT. [by TELKGHAPIl —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] BERLIN. April 0. There has been serious conflicts in the Ukraine, Southern Russia, between the Bolshevik troops and peasants. The Bolsheviks have suppressed a revolt with great bloodshed, they executed 340 peasants, apparently because they protested against the trial of tin* Orthodox Church Patriarch. Tikhon. Anti-Jewish pogroms in the Ukraine are also reported. Numerous Jewish families are fleeing from there to Poland. RED ARMY OFFICERS. CONSTANTINOPLE. April 0. It is reported, from Titlis. that the Red Armv C'ommander-in-Chief, General Ego roll', his Chief-of-Staif, General Potigahchcfi. and several other Staff Officers of the Red Army have been arrested on a charge of conspiring against the Bolshevik authorities. POLISH. DEMONSTRATK)N. WARSAW. April 6. A huge protest meeting against the recent execution of the Polish prelate, I)r Budkevitch, at Moscow, has been held here. One hundred thousand people marched to the British Legation, and they cried. “Long live. England!” A deputation requested the Premier to intervene energetically on behalf of the imprisoned Catholic priests in Russia. Access to the Russian and the Ukrainian Legations was barred by the police, owing to the possibility of disturbances.