RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, 16 January 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA.

THE BOLSHEVIKS. BUSY IN HOLLAND. AMSTERDAM, January 14. The “Haagsebe Post’ 1 says Bolshevik propagandists are very active in Holland, where they are spending millions of florins. Borisovitch, cx-gcncral manager of the Sieman’s factories at Moscow, is now one of the principal Bolsheviks, whilst the ex-director of a German hanking firm is acting as Bolshevik foreign agent. Bolshevik propaganda was first carried abroad by German Foreign Office couriers. TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILWAY. TOKIO, January 14. Japan and America have reached an understanding in reference to the control of the Trans-Siberian railway PETROGRAD’S AWFUL STATE. STOCKHOLM, January 14. Travellers from Petrograd state that the conditions there are awful. The population is starving and freezing to death en masse. Mortality is so groat that the same coffins are used repeatedly.

ANARCHY IN ARGENTINE

EIGHT HUNDRED KILLED. WOUNDED TOTAL 5000. WASHINGTON, January 14 The State Department learns that the Buenos Ayres disorders resulted in 800 being killed and 5,000 wounded. SPREAD OF THE TROUBLE. A DICTATORSHIP DECLARED

LONDON, January 14

Telegrams from Buenos Ayres, dated Friday, state that the strike was spreading. Battles between • the strikers and Government forces were raging in all parts of the city. Cavalry had occupied the moat markets to assure the distribution of food and to prevent starvation. The Government had mobilised an additional 10,000 White Guards, which were ordered to quell violence at any cost. There already had been 200 casualties. The strike was engineered by foreign Bolshevik agitators. General Del Lepinc has assumed the dictatorship. He gave as his reason the Government’s inability to cope with the strike. Women and children were warned off the streets of Buenos Ayres by the Government because it was unable to protect them. Newspapers were burned in the streets by the mob, which would not permit them to be circulated, with the exception of the “La Vanguardia” a semiSocialist organ. Russians were responsible for the strike. In some instances soldiers refused to go on strike duty. Serious disorders followed the public funeral of five victims of the fighting. Rioters burned a passenger train and tore up the tracks, paralysing traffic, on the railway?. They /also burned the Catholic Church and adjoining school.

RUSSIAN BOLSHEVIK ORGANISATION .DISCOVERED, BUENOS AYBES, January 14 The police have discovered a secret organisation, composed, of Russian Bolsheviks, who were contemplating organising uprisings. They were plentifully supolic'd with explosives. Several arrests were made.