SOVIET RUSSIA.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 June 1927, Page 2

SOVIET RUSSIA.

THE RED TERROR

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LONDON, June 15. , Messages from Warsaw state that the P,ed Terror continues in Russia. Special military measures are being taken. There is a Press censorship operating, and even private telegrams arc not' accepted. LONDON, June 14. The Daily Mail’s Riga correspondent says:—Twenty-eight further ex-Tsanst officers have been executed at Moscow.

CHALIAPINE SUSPECT

LONDON, -June 15. The Times Riga correspondent states: —The Executive of the Bolshevist Artists’ Trade Union lias requested the Commissary of Education, to deprive Fedor Ivanov itch Chaliapine, the Russian singer, of the title of People’s Artist, conferred on him during the early stages of the Revolution, because he lias contributed 5000 francs to the support of the unemployed Russian exiles in Paris.

The Executive says M. Chaliapine must now he regarded as standing on the other side of the barricade. Therefore they must tear from him the high title of People’s Artist. BERLIN. June 15. A message from Moscow says Chaliapine, the Russian singer, has been deprived of his Russian nationality on the ground that lie has aided refugees.

LONDON, June 15,

The Daily Mail Moscow correspondent says that the population is panicstricken. Crowds of Foreigners are departing. The Soviet is refusing passports to'its own nationals. Innumerable arrests continue. SOVIET CODE. LONDON, June 15. The Central News Paris correspondent says: An insolent reply to Finland’s protests against the execution of Elvengren lias been sent by the Soviet. The reply declares: “We cannot and shall not accept any intervention in the matter'-of the executions made as reprisal for the murder of M. Voikoff. Those who come into Soviet territory must know that they are no longer protected by the laws of their own country; and the Soviet Code permits the putting to death of people without trial on the order of the police. Elvengren, who fought against the Soviet forces, knew perfectly well that the official state of peace did not prevent him from being a precious hostages. It is the same for all thc*e whom the .Soviet Government think well to imprison and to condemn to death.

RUSSIANS LEAVING ENGLAND LONDON, June 15.

The Daily Mail's political correspondent states: The Russians compelled to leave Britain since the rupture with their Government have decided to clear out with a. minimum of delay. All the Russian Communists engaged in the furtherance of Moscow’s revolutionary plots arc believed to bo accurately traced, and the authorities are well satisfied with the progress of the evacuation. The bulk of the really had men have already gone. 1 ' The remainder go within a week.

ODESSA EXECUTIONS. LONDON, June 14

The Daily Mail’s Riga correspondent reports that eleven of the prisoners who have been sentenced to death at Odessa have been executed.

The correspondent adds: The now Red Terror has more than doubled the number of suicides in Moscow, and these are now numbering from ten to fifteen per day.

Leningrad and Moscow, with their unsavoury reputation of possessing the most and worst prisons in the world, have still unsufficient accommodation for an additional thousand middleclass prisoners who have been arrested during the past few days. Heavily guarded trains are leaving for Siberia each night from both citres with Red victims. KOWERDA TRIAL. WARSAW, June 15. The trial of Kowerda has begun. There are twenty witnesses for the prosecution, including four experts. Witnesses for the defence are chiefly the accused’s parents and a sister. Kowerda was calm and composed in admitting the shooting, adding: “I am not guilty of murder, f did not know Koikoff. I shot him because of what the Bolsheviks have done in Russia.”