RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, 24 September 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

A FURIOUS LITTLE ANIMAL. LIFE CHEAP IN RUSSIA. Received. 11.20 a.m. NEW YORK, Sept 23. ' Dosch Fleurot, writing from Stockholm, says that Peters has absolute power over life and death of anybody in Russia. A neutral who had'been before him many times, praying for the lives of innocent persons, told me that Peters had become a furious little animal; he signs death warrants all day. Sitting in the Kremlin on one occasion he signed away the lives of seventy-two officers without' glancing at the paper.

THE INFAMOUS PETERS. SCORES OP LIVES DAILY SIGNED AWAY. Received 11.55 a.m. NEW YORK September 23 Mr Amo Dosch Fluerot’s Stockholm introduction reads: The awfullest figure of the Russian Red Terror is a dapper little blond Lett named Peters. He is Commissioner Extraordinary against the counter-revolution. Peters lived in England for many years, and speaks Russian with an English accent. He daily signs away the lives of scores of men and women he has never seen because they are suspected of being against the .Bolsheviks HOW RASPUTIN DIED. A NEW VERSION. Received 11.55 a.m. NEW YORK, Sept 23. Colonel Btauilaus Deltazevert, commander of the sanitary section of the Russian Red Cross, said the report that Rasputin had been lured into a house and then shot, was untrue.

WHO, KiLLED RASPUTjPjT;, EFFORT TO SAVE RUSSIA, Received 10.30 a.m. , ... NEW YORK, Sept 23. . i The American Socialist Mission that has been to Europe, has arrived at an Atlantic port. It states that the announcement of Wilson’s democratic aims stiffener. British labour’s morale and prevented the adpotion of a defeatist resolution. At the British Labour Conference there is a noticeable doury defeatist sentiment amongst the Allies.

Dr. Stanislau Lazevert, a Russian colonel, has arrived to see President Wilson in connection with Siberia. He asserts that he, with four others. Grand Duke Dmitri, Duke Paul, captain of the guard, Touchstone PourIschkchoatch, and a second grand duke who is to be nameless, killed Rasputin outside Duke Paul’s palace, in order to save Russia from defeat. RUSSIAN ARCHANGEL GOVE.RN- *’ MENT. '•> - ■■■■A i UNDER ALLIED PROTECTION. Received 10.10 a.m. NEW YORK, Sept 23. New York delayed Press despatches from Archangel say that ’Allied Diplomatic and Military Staffs have assumed temporary control, following the attempted overthrow of the Tschaikovtsky Government, and they have established a protectorate in the region behind the Allied front, which will be relinquished when order is restored. Tschaikovtsky and members of his Cabinet are now under Allied protection.