RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, 11 September 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

THE BOLSHEVIKS SEEING RED. LONDON, Sept 9. The ‘Daily Chronicle’s” Stockholm correspondent states that the latest Bolshevik papers are filled with sanguinary articles, appeals and resolutions, demanding mass terrorism against the bourgeoise in revenge for the attempts on Lenin and Uritzky. The general watchword is “individual terrorism.”

The Petrograd commune has decided to begin the extermination of the bourgeoise.

The “Krasnaya Gazette” demands pitiless vengeance on Social Revolutionaries. It adds: Laws and tribunals of justice are not needed to make the blood flow.

The day following the outrages in Petrograd the Soviet increased the Soviet Guards’ wages to £SO per month, plus food . They are the only persons receiving full subsistence. The people have had no bread for several days and very little meat. The State Department has received from Stockholm official confirmation of the arrests of all the French and British consular aud other officials in Russia, by the Bolsheviks,

IMPORTANT CAPTURE BY CZECHS. PEKIN, Sept 10. It is reported that the Czechs have captured Chita, which is exceedingly important, since the Bolsheviks have fortified it. Evidently the presence of the Japanese is being felt. Seminoff is damaging the enemy’s morale. The Czechs have posession of the greater part of the trans-Siberian railway. FINLAND’S FATE. COPENHAGEN; Sept 10. 'Large numbers of Finlanders are arriving in Sweden to escape German conscription, whereby Finlanders are forced to serve in Murman. AWFUL CONDITIONS IN RUSSIA. A REIGN OF TERROR PREVAILING _■ ; . EXECUTIONERS TIRED OP KILLING. CONFLICTS BETWEEN RED GUARDS AND PEASANTS.

RED ARMY DISORGANISED. Received 10.15 aim. NEW YORK, September 9 Mr Arno Dosch Fleurot, the New York World’s correspondent at Stockholm, who has just arrived from Petrograd and Moscow with a party of Allied national refugees, cables ho is afraid to tell the truth about the horrors of Russia, because the Bolsheviks may take vengeance On the remaining Allied nationals, whose lives “hang on a thread.” Executions' - in Moscow by order of Bolsheviks ’ tribunal arc so frequent| Maxim silencers are used to prevent the sounds reaching, the masses. Lettish executioners in the army refuse to shot any more victims, and Chinese troops are now the Bolsheviks’ executioners. Similar scenes occur in every Russian city, and the conditions are even worse in the provinces. The Bolshovik Government, abandoned by the peasants, realises that unless they rule by terror they will be unable to govern the people. Every other Bolshevik is now at the throat of every other man. I have

never seen such scones, which ore only comparable to the Reign of Terror in Franco, and in some respects are worse The peasants arc revolting everywhere. For three weeks before I left Petrograd there was constant and sanguinary fighting between the peasants and the Red Guards, who are fifty miles south from the city. The Red Army, however, is so weak that it will only be able to hold the front against {the* t'Jzedho -Slovaks, because the latter are advancing slowly and reorganising .the country as they advance. Thousands of soldiers are deserting the Red Array, which is hopelessly disorganised. Everyone in Russia knows the Allies or the Czechoslovaks with twenty thousand men could capture Moscow with little difculty.

C2ECHO SLOVAKS' EXPLOIT. THE SURPRISE OP THE WAR. Received 10.40 a.m. ■LONDON, Sept 10. The Czecho Slovaks’ sudden appearance at Chita is regarded as one of the dramatic surprises of the war. It had been previously thought that only an extremely rapid advance of a relieving army from the Far East could save the force, but few thought relief coulid be affdfSed before the winter, in which case the Czecho Slovaks’ plight was regarded as hopeless against thg great odds. By the capture of Chita the Japo-Czecho Slovaks have advanced six hundred miles. The leader, Colonel Ghaida, is a man of strong personality, and great hopes are reposed in his leadership.

CZECHO SLOVAKS' SUCCESS... GIVES STRATEGIC POINTS TO ALLIES. Received 10.35 a.m. NEW YORK, Sept 10. The United Press correspondent at Vladivostock states that according to information reaching the Japanese military authorities the Czecho Slovaks control the railway from Olovy"anna to Penza, which are more than 1500 miles apart. The situation given the Allies an opoprtunity to move into the heart of Russia from strategic points held by the Czecho Slovaks,

THE SOVIETS’ GOVERNMENT BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP SEA. GERMANY’S STRANGLE HOLD Received 11.20 a.m. LONDON, September 10. Mr Ransom, a pro-Bolshevik corres-’ pondent, says the Bolsohviks, believing if they go under the revolution will strangle itself or be strangled by the forces without, now take less account of human lives in what they regard as a sacred effort to save the intellect of the revolution from, the .'approaching delirium. If the Soviet Government has a proscribed list, their opponents have another so murder on one side moots executions on other. While this bloody drama is being played in towns, the dreadful search for food continues. All Moscow, restaurants are closed and scraps of salt fish and other substitutes replace broad. The Czccho-Slovaks and the Germans bar the roads to national food supplies. The Soviets’ internal enemies blow up bridges and organise disorder, hampering the distribution of what little food the Soviets possess. The Germans, while they can, arc trying to wring money from the desperate Government, which struggles to keep control. The Germans know Russia cannot pay and want to strengthen their hold on the unfortunate debtors. ■