RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, 20 January 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA.

FREE LOVE IN RUSSIA. WOMEN (NATIONALISED^ FLOGGED FOR NOT YIELDING. Received 10.5 a.m. LONDON, January 19. General Poole telegraphs that refugees from Central Russia state that the Bolsheviks continue to destroy the economic and social life. The decree for the nationalisation of women has been put into force, and commissaries of fres' love established in several towns. Respectable women were flogged for refusing to yield. The experiment Ms ateo been made of the nationalisation of children. THE BOLSHEVIKS. AMSTERDAM, January .17. The Bolsheviks have entered Mitau (the capital of the Russian Government of CourTand)). NOT WANTED IN SWITZERLAND. BERNE. January 17. The Government is dealing drastically with Germanand Russian Bolshevik agents. Many are under surveillance. A number of arrests have been made." A special train to-day conveys undesirables to the frontier. ALL RUSSIANS COMBINING. LONDON, January 18.

A Russian delegation ivas sympathetically received in political and Government quarters. For the first time, all leading Russians of every shade of opinion In Britain, France, and Russia, excepting the extreme right and left wings, have sunk their political differences in a patriotic termination 'to exterminate Bolshevism and enable Russia to express its freewill. The demands are: An Allied pronouncement to place Bolshevism outside the pale of society; material Assistance to arm Russian armies of a quarter of a million under General Kolchank and a similar number under Denikin; and the sending of a small Allied detachment from the Black Sea to Ukraine to maintain order while crops are sown. It is anticipated that when the armies of Kolchank and Denikin junction, the collapse of Bolshevism must speedily follow.

An instance of Bolshevik terrorism was supplied at Riga. When British gunfire wrecked an important bridge, the Bolsheviks seized nearby resident's and cut off their noses and ears and left them dying in the snow, where they were found by a British landing party.