BOLSHEVIST DEVASTATION.

Taihape Daily Times, 7 April 1919, Page 5

BOLSHEVIST DEVASTATION.

Received April 7, 5.45 a-m* VANCOUVER, April 5. Bolshevists devastated the town of Osca, near Penn, killing two thousand, included educated classes-. bolshevik; horrors. A TERRIBLE STORY. LONDON, April 5. A Foreign Office White Book contains a collection of British official and other reports covering the Bolshevik regime from the summer of 1918 to the present date. It is issued in accordance with the decision of the War Cabinet last January. It is an appalling story of atrocities and misery. A Britisher who left Moscow in December says of inhabitants were shot, but lately the victims Avcre hurg. He mentioned 150 Russian offi ors prisonered at Pskoff Avho were saAva to pieces by Mongolian soldiers. The British Consul at Ekaterinburg, on January 13th reports that hundreds of civilians were murdered in Ural towns. Captured officers had their shoulderstraps nailed shoulders. Sonic civilians had their eyes gouged out, others had their noses cut off ? and others were dipped in rivers till frozen to death.

The Dutch Minister in PctrograJd did his utmost to succour the British and other Allied people arrested wholesale in Moscow in the panic, following the attempt to assassinate Lenin. He repeatedly interviewed Tsehitcscherin, who was impressed with England’s power, saying the time had come when the Soviet authorities must pay individually for the acts of terrorism, hut it was impossible to obtain definite promises from Tschitcherin regarding the fate of Britishers.

The measures adopted by the Bolsheviks can only end 'in bankruptcy, though the resources of the country are such that there is still scope for the continuance of Bolshevik rule, nevertheless, the position of agriculture is monthly becoming more acute and eventually seed and grain must be consumed. Pood stocks and live stock arc exhausted.

LENIN’S LATEST,

LONDON. April 5.

Lenin has issued a decree forbidding religions ceremony at funerals, and prohibiting the erection of crosses on the graves of dead Christians.

v NEW SOVIET REPUBLIC

Received 9 20 a.m

LONDON, April 6. A Soviet Republic has been pro claimed at Augsherg (not Munich;)

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