SOVIET RUSSIA.
RUSSIAN METHODS. FLOGGING TO KILL. ["Tiie Times” Service.] (Received Ibis day at 9.23 n.m.) BERLIN, May 31. The special Cheka officer, \ inokovroff who was sent to TambolF province to investigate the failure of villages to pay taxes, deemed it necessary to strip and (log one hundred peasants. died, and the infuriated peasants disarmed the C'hoko guard, seized Yinnkovrolf, dragged him to tho same spot., and after trial sentenced him to death by his favourite weapon, the knout. At the live hundredth stroke the Commissary expired.
A message was despatched to Moscow reporting (lie case, and giving a warning of similar action in future. The message was signed by three thousand peasants ami eighteen local committees. The Cheka, following the usual custom, sent a strong hotly of troops armed to tho teeth to the district to take punitive measures.
RUSSIA’S RICHEST SPOILS TO THE LEADERS. MOSCOW. May ,V. The Soviet report on private fortunes shows the richest men in LI ~ "in are Trotsky, Zinovicfi, Radovski, Kiassin and other Bolshevik leaders. Lenin was excluded from the investigation.
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 June 1923, Page 3
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