RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, 14 December 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

CLASS HATRED AT FEVER POINT. STOCKHOLM. Dec. 12 The report of the formation of a new Russian Government under M. Trepoff is authoritatively denied. A ►Swedish engineer long resident in Bus sia, declares that it is not Socialism ! which is active m Russia, but clasf ! hatred. The populace seems to aim at exterminating the bourgeoisc by stav vation. Unless the Allies soon help, the bourgeoise will perish. Corruption has reached the utmost limits. Bolsh". visra exists by terrorism alone. 1 BREAKING WITH BOLSHEVIKS. ! CHRISTIANIA, Dec 12. J The "Aftcnposten" states that the j Norwegian Legation has leit Petrograd J for Norway. It is probable that the Bolshevist representatives will be ordered to leave Norway shortly. It is also reported'that Denmark is 1 about to break connection with Boli shevik Russia. | COMIC OPERA OUTDONE. AMSTERDAM, Dec 12. i The Bolsheviks have full power in I the Duchy of Brunswick, where the i President of the Republic is a hunch- ; back dwarf. He was formerly a tailor. | His salary is £2500 per annum, an? I he insists on being paid in daily in- ! stalments. The Minister of Education is a washerman. Red Guards, with j their wives, occupy the Ducal palace.