RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, 24 September 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA.

. KOBLTCHAK ADVANCING. ANTI-BOLSHEVIK SOCIETY . DISCOVERED. Received 11.40 am. PARIS, Sept. 23. Japan places her troops at the Allies’ disposal to relieve the Czecho—Slovaks in Siberia. Le Matin states the ex-Emperor Charles renounces the Ziustrian Crown, Omsk telegrams report that Koltchak is advancing on all parts of the front. There is fierce. fighting in the direction of Kurgan.

A wireless from Moscow states a bomb was thrown into the guard room of premises occupied by K-oltchvak. Six were killed and twelve I'njure~d.

The Moscow All-Russian Commission »has discovered -an anit-Soviet organisation. called tlle_National Centre, with widespread naniifi-cations. It is chiefly composed of Cadets, and also a few moderate Monarchisfs, and Menshcviks. Documenis were found‘ proving the Con. tre had communication with Deniken. The Commission executed sixty-six persons, including Stehepkin, éx—memb'er of the Duma, who was chairman of the National Centre; Professors Astrakofi‘, and Volkoif. Prince Obolensky, and two ‘generals. Those awaiting trial include Prince Andronik-ofl’, allegedly one of R:2sputin’s accomplices, and Rozamoif. The latter is a l\lenshevik. UN-SPEAKABLE HORRORS. KIEFF A SHAMBLES. HUNDREDS OF VICTIMS DA.ILY_ Received 9.25 a.m.

LONDON, Sept. 23

The Times’ correspondent describes Kiefl as a city of'hol-rors During the Bolsheviks’ two hundred days’ occupation they carried out hundreds of executiongfldaily. Corpses were left lying in the streets till they reached’ a horrible state of putrefaction.‘ One hundred and forty corpses of prisoners were locked in a smaall apartment" and were left to rot. The walls of a garage behind a‘ gloomy tree-shaded house were used as the nlace of execution, and were pitted by re‘v'6lver bullots. The walls also were splashed with blood and the floer covered with thick glutinous blood. An English governess lfiing near by was kept awake all night by the awful shl-ieks of victims_ The exccutioners, including a female, Rosa Schwarz, lived above the shambles, and their ‘rooms were found to be littered with playing cards, gramaphones, and dog-ea,red novels. "