RED RUSSIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10283, 19 May 1919, Page 5

RED RUSSIA

FURTHER RECORD OF HORRORS

COLD-BLOODED BUTCHERY BY RED GUARD.

'By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable __ Association. {Received May 18, S.o p.m.) LONDON, May 8.

Advices from Ekaterinodar, in the Kuban province of Ciscaucasia state that a gravedigger at _ Paitigorsk, where generals and ex-Ministers, including Russky and Doitrieif were massacred during the Bolshevik regime, narrated how he was awakened at midnight by Red Guards carrying naked swords, and ordered to accompany them to a large grave where thirty-five prisoners, old and young, were ordered to bare their necks and kneel. The leader commanded his followers to begin from the left. Live Red Guards proceeded to carry out tho execution in a leisuiely manner like butchers chopping meat, often missing tho neck and mussing the face. Some of the victims fell outside tlio grave and were kicked in. When tho work was finished the Red Guards lit cigarettes, and laughed and jested, while groans were audible beneath tho earth as the grave was filled in. Another "thirty victims were treated similarly an hour later. UNITED STATES APTITUDE TOWARDS PETROGRAD. Australian and N.Z. Cable __ Association. (Received May 18, 5.0 p.m.} PARIS, May 17. The Americans will not participate in any offensive towards Petrograd. BRITISH GUNBOATS ACTIVE ON THE DVINA. (Received May 18, 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, May 17. New York dispatches from Archangel state that British gunboats are fighting the Bolsheviks on the Dvina river. THE OMSK GOVERNMENT AS SUPREME AUTHORITY, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. 'Received May 18, S.o p.m.) NEW YORK, May 16. The “New York Times” Washington correspondent reports that the State Department has received a message denying that the Archangel Government has recognised tho Omsk Government as the supreme authority in Russia. PLIGHT OF INHABITANTS OF RIGA. 30,000 WOMEN AND CHILDREN ON BARREN ISLAND. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. COPENHAGEN, May 16. The Bolsheviks have retaken Narva, and the Esthonians are retreating. Since the Bolsheviks abandoned Riga, owing to being without food, the plight of tho starving inhabitants has been terribly aggravated. LONDON, May 9. The Australian Press Association learns, by messages from Riga, of the desperate situation there. The Bolsheviks, who are treating the civilians with horrible cruelty, placed 30,000 women and children on a barren island In the river. No arrangements were made to feed these unfortunate people, who are starving. BOLSHEVIK COLLAPSE AGAIN FORESHADOWED. Australian and N.Z. Coble Association. TOKIO, May 9. Japanese correspondents at Omsk_ report that the “Reds” are retreating, and the Soviet commissaries are deserting. The Chinese, Lettish, and Magyar mercenaries are resisting desperately, hut the cither forces are melting away. A Bolshevik collapse is foreshadowed. ' General „ Kolchak expects to reach Moscow in three months. KOLCHAK CAPTURES SAMARA. PARIS, .May 15. General Kolchak has caputred Samara, on the left bank of tho Volga, 656 njiles to tho south-east of Moscow. FIGHTING IN NORTH RUSSIA. LONDON May 9 (delayed). General Ironsides reports that the Bolsheviks heavily bombarded the British positions on the river Vaga and attempted two infantry attacks, both of which were broken up. General Maynard reports that he has cleared the Bolsheviks out of all the villages around Lake Segozero. ATTACK ON MAYNARD’S POSITION. BOLSHEVIKS DEFEATED AND FLEE SOUTHWARD. Revived Official advices from North Russia state that tho Bolsheviks attacked General Maynard’s positions at Lake Segozero. Our counter-attack on both flanks was carried out with great dash. Tho enemy fled southward, leaving fifty dead. NEUTRALISATION OF LEMBERG. (Received May 18, 11.45 p.m.) PARIS, May 10. A telegram from Kieff states that the Poles and Ukrainians have agreed that Lemberg shall bo neutralised.