RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, 10 January 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA.

DISPUTE BETWEEN TROTSELY AND LENIN. REIGN OF TERROR TO CONTINUE Received 5.50 a.m. COPENHAGEN, Jan. 8 The Gothcnbuipr Gazette learns that the dispute between Lenin and Trotsky arose out of Lenin's demand that the Bolsheviks eoalise with the Minsheviks. Trotsky insisted in the continuation of the reign of terror. FIENDISH BOLSHEVIKS. Eeeeived 5.50 a.m. LONDON, January 8. Mr Jcffcries describes the aw'ful Bolshevik atrocities, reviving the most fiendish medieval tortures. A marauding gang in Podolia seized a Polish landlord, and pulled his limbs apart until his body ripped. The remains were then hacked to pieces and burned. ' Six managers and overseers of factories at Schicnski were bound in the world with the thermometer below zero. Water was then poured on their heads until it was frozen solid. Russian officers have been torn to pieces. Some had their bones broken, while others were killed by the application of electric current.

AMAZING DOINGS IN PETROGRAD.

AMSTERDAM, Jan. 8

Among the amazing doings of the Rusian Bolsheviks is the action of the Petrograd Soviet in transforming twenty-one churches !into picture palaces for propaganda purposes. One hundred and fifty thousand prisoners have avrived from Germany, and thcjse 'hostile fco< *vere forced to attend lectures on the principles of Soviet rule. ALARMING HEADWAY IN UNITED STATES. NEW YORK, Jan. 8. The Department of Justice has discovered that a fund of one hundred thousand sterling has been sent to New York from Lenin for the promotion of Bolshevism in the United States. It. is officially stated that Bolshevism is making alarming headway in this country. " ALLIED INTERVENTION DISCUSSED. LONDON, January 8. The third problem for the Peace Conference is the intervention of Allied troops in Russia, Austria and Germany to prevent the spread of Bolshevism. It is understood President Wilson is energetically opposing further intervention in Russia,, yet representative Russians plead to the Allies to send sufficient troops to prevent horrors. The situation in Austria is exceedingly dangerous. The people are on the verge of starvation. j The Provisional Government is unl able 'to cope with the difficulties of the position. Already various nationj alties are gathering together in order to fly at each other's throats. Bands jof desperadoes, profiting by the general insecurity, perpetrate atrocities. British and American troops are required to act as police to keep order. If aid is denied an army corps may finally be required to do the work comnanies could do now

THE POLISH SITUATION

WASHINGTON, .Tan. 8. Polish headquarters here deny that the Polish army had -any intention of marching on. Berlin. The statement is merely part of German propaganda. A Polish army is organising to defend Poland against the Bolsheviks.