RUSSIA.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3329, 6 November 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA.

PETROGRAD HORRORS.

TERRIBLE STORIES.

COPENHAGEN, Nov. 3.

A horrible story -of Petrograd states that Chinese mercenaries have begun selling at high prices the flesh of prisoners éhot nightly in the Peter and Paul fortress.

STOCKHOLMN, Nov. 3.

IE is reported that 40,000 died of starvation in Petrograd last month. .

ADVANCES TO RUSSIA‘

BRITAIN’S HUGE EXPENDITURE.

LONDON, Nov. 3.

A White‘ Paper shows that the British naval and military expenditure in Russia since the armistice is sev-enty—eigh-t million sterling, including stores, cash advances to the Baltic States, Denikin and Koltchak, apart from a final contribution of fifteen million to Denikin.

PRICE Ol‘ I'INL.AND’S INTERVENTION.

Received 8.55 am

LONDON, Nov. 4.

The Morning Post ’s Revel corres~ pendent: states‘ as a .I'esu'lt. of negotiations under Allied auspices Finland undertook an offensive agarinst Petrograd, Koltchak agreeing to cede to Finland the Kola Peninsula, including the Murman Coast.