BOLSHEVISM.

Taihape Daily Times, 14 April 1919, Page 5

BOLSHEVISM.

WAR ON SERBIA. BY HUN BOLSHEVIKS. ALLIES’ AID SOUGHT. FIUME, April 11. Advices from Vienna reiterate that the Hungarian Bolshcvikjp (have declared war on Serbia. Martial law has been declared in Serbia, which is demanding the Allies’ help. Mr William Ward, international secretary of the Brotherhood movement, has returned from Serbia. He states that 240,000 Serbians arc destitute. Orphans between seven and fourteen are running wild. There is a great deal 'of starvation. Over six hundred school teachers have been killed. BOLSHEVIK ATROCITIES. o SUFFERINGS OF THE POLES. LONDON, April 11. Colonel Tallents, head of tbe British Relief Commission in Poland, has returned with photographs of terrible atrocities before the Esthonians couutcr.;attaeked the B'olshevibs. Colonel Tallents maintains that a prompt supply of food and clothing and .reconstruction materials along the Baltic coast is the first condition of counterpropaganda The Allies: are fortifying Porckop Isthmus to safeguard the Crimea. HUNS AND CZECHS BATTLE EAST OF VIENNA. VIENNA, April 11. Reports have been received of frontier fighting between Hungarians and Czechs near Pressburg. Russia'informed Hungary that 801,000 armed prisoners of war were en route to Hungary through the Ukraine . The elections of the Budapest Workmens’, Peasants and Soldiers’ Councils, from which the National Council will be formed, have been fixed for next week. Idle capitalists, employers and priests are disfranchised. MURDER OF ROMANOFFS. NEW YORK, April 12. The “World’s’ l Vladivostock Correspondent reports that Admiral Kolchak ordered the deaths of the Romanoffs. It wag definitely learned that the Czar and his family were murdered in their house at Ekaterinburg. Yurodski, the house commandant, awakened the family at 2 o’clock in the morning, and told them they must die immediately. Yurodski fired the first re- | volver shot. A volley followed, and where the bullets missed their mark bayonets were used.

HUNGARIAN SITUATION EASIER.

Received 12,5 a.nj, LONDON, April 12

As a result of the Hungarian crisis the Austrian Cabinet, in a fit of panic has taken steps to change the Soviet Government, if necessary, hut the situation ‘is now easier owing to the Allies informing Austria that they do not intend using Austria as a base for operations against Hungary It is not true that Hungary has declared it Bolshevik war against Serbia and Romnania. Hungarian peasants continue to be hostile to the neTv regime. •-*. ' ■■"-r. - ,

GENERAL SMUTS' RPFORT,

Received 12.5 a FARIS, April 12.

General Smuts reports the Hungarian Government has no control outside of Budapest. Therefor© it Ss useless to enter into negotiations for the establishment of a neutral zone between Hungary and Roumania, FIGHTING THE BOLSHEVIKS. COPENHAGEN, April 9. jEsfhouian: /newspapers states '(that the Bolsheviks have been completely expelled from Esthonia. Fighting continues on Russian soil. “NO TRUCK WITH BOLSHEVIKS.” LONDON, April 11. Mr Clement Ward, in the House of Commons, moved the adjournment to dis-uss the Russian Bolshevik overtures to the Peace Conference. He and other speakers strongly condemned having any dealings with the Bolsheviks. Mr Shortt, replying, said the Government would not refuse to confer with the Russian Government, but ho representative of a government worthy of tbo name existed. They could not have truck with the blood-thirsty Russians who were terrorising Russia. Lenin had emissaries in Britain, and others were coming. He believed the emissaries were receiving very little support in Britain. He understood Lenin's proposals had not reached the British representatives in Paris. He believed Germany manufactured the whole story of the negotiations in order to make other nations believe the Bolsheviks wore peaceful, civilised, and reasonable. Mr Shortt promised to convey to Mr Lloyd George the House’s unanimous feeling against negotiation with the Bolsheviks.

Interviewed by the United Press, Mr Cecil Harmswortb said: The Allied Governments cannot recognise the Bolsheviks for the following reasons: The Bolsheviks do not represent the Russian people. The Bolsheviks have shown themselves the enemies of the League of Nations. They made peace with Germany against the will of their peoples. The Allies will support the Governments of Tsaikovski, Kolchak, and Denokin, because they stand for the restoration of Russia and the raaintainance of the alliance with the Allies.