RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, 20 March 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

THE TREATY CONDITIONS

PETROGRAD, March 18,

Martoif, head of the Menshevik, addressing the Moscow Soviet, alleged that the treaty with Germany provided for an indemnity of nine, not three, billion, gold roubles. He asserted that the treaty declares Petrograd a free city. SAILORS MURDER FIVE HUNDRED PEOPLE. THROW BODIES INTO THE SEA. A GRUESOME EPISODE. • Received 8,40. LONDON, March 19. The “Daily Chronicle’s” Moscow correspondent says the voting at the Congress, was a mere formality, as the Bolsheviks have cultivated the art of packing caucuses in an unsurpassed degree. Hundreds of delegates will shudder at the readiness with which they consented to the Russian partition. Peace with Germany by no means implies peace at home. Wholesale murder is a normal feature of Russian life, and five hundred bourgeoisie were murdered in a single night at Glukhov. Sailors at Sebastopol decided to execute a general massacre in two streets, inhabited by well-to-do people. Their bodies were thrown into the sea. The widow of one murdered man asked a diver to bring up her husband. After a minute’s immersion the diver was drawn up on the. verge of insanity. He said the bodies of the murdered were thrown into the sea with stones tied to their feet; he found a throng standing upright swaying to and fro.