RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, 19 October 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

ALLIED SUCCESS IN SIBERIA. - *' j Received 9.20 a.m. NEW YORK, Oct 18. The “Times” Pekin ' correspondent states the Bolsheviks have retreated west of the Urals. The .Allies hold all lines of communications. .• „* ■. RED RUSSIA. BOLSHEVIK EXCESSES. i i NEW YORK, Oct 17. Mr. Arno Doeschfleurojt, MITe “New York World’s” Russian correspondent, who is now at Christiania, cablesMbarthe Bolsheviki are killing millowners and engineers who are capable of reorganising the disrupted Russian industries. A trainload of refugees from Moscow report that refugees are being shot by. the hundred. More than seventy Allied officials have been imprisoned. The refugees here include the British, and French Consular officials.

The British Consul-General (Mr. Lockhart), interviewed, said: “An attempt was made on August 30 to assassinate Lenin. The same night the British Embassy at Petrograd was raided. I was twice arrested and kept for five days in close confinement, then sent to a condemned cell in the Kremlin, but was afterwards liberated. T-he cells were over-crowded, and I could not even sit down. The conditions were appalling and the food revolting. Several inmates went insane. General •Lavergne and the British officials escaped to the Norwegian Consulate when the Embassy was raided, but were besieged by Bolsheviki and the food and water supply cut off for several days.” Other refugees interviewd said that the Bolsheviki were stronger than ever and conditions were almost hopwless. Well-known persons in Petrograd continue to disappear mysteriously.