RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 August 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

REIGN OF TERROR IN PETROGRAD.

80,000 ARRESTS MADS,

WARSHIP 'LEAVING FOR GERMANY. Received Aug. '2O, 5.5 pm. Washington, Aug- 19. Official advices from Russia, through Sweden, state there is a reign of terror at Petrogiad, and that 30,000 arrests of army officers and (bourgeoisie have been made.

Lenin and Trotsky arc believed to Jjp inboard the warship Aurora, in Kronstadt .'larbor, preparing to leave for Germany :u case of a popular rising against the Bolshevik regime—Press Assoc.

A HAZY APPEAL, Received Aug. 20, 5.5 p.m. Amsterdam, Aitg. 19. The Bolshevik paper' Pravda states that the Soviets' -appeal says Russia's intervention in the war is necessary. The Government, Ims therefore completed preparations to remove to Kronstadt, which is regarded as a safe place-—Renter.

. POSITION AT MURMANSK,

REFUGEES MOM BOLSHEVIKS. London, Aug. liD. •Mr. Arthur Capping, the (Daily Chronicle correspondent at Murmansk, gives a pathetic narrative of the misery the Russians are suffering owing to the cruelty, brutality, and cowardice of the Bolsheviks.

He says that 'Murmansk is the haven at which half a dozen different nationalities are arriving by truck-loads and trainloads occupying days and weeks at railway sidings. 'Some have taken more than three months to reach their destination. *

Tho refugees aro accommodated in wooden lints with grouped tiers of shelves for beds. .Refugees still drift across the stricken country, babies are born and old people die among their ranks. All talk of the murderous Bolsheviks.

One group included an ex-professor of Potrograd, whose son while playing at soldiers in the street was bayonetted and his body thrown into the river.

The correspondent met an old Russian admiral whose property had been confiscated and his money stolon. He is now living with his barefooted wife in a wretched hovel.

Since the Allies' arrival the zone of safety has gradually extended. The Bolsheviks quickly quitted Archangel— Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.

DANGEROUS CONDITIONS,

LITHUANIA'S ACTIONAmsterdam, Aug. 1:9. The Cologne Volks Zeitung declares that Jlerr von He I fieri eh has decided not to return to Russia -owing to the dangerous conditions.

_ The council of Lithuania representatives has written to Ilindenburg stating that as the Chancellor has refused the council's demand for a conference to discuss the government of Lithuania, the council has decided to settle its own form of government.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.

CZEOHO-SLOVAWS 'HOLD COMM'\ND--ING POSITION'S.

.New York, The New York Times correspondent at Moscow says that the Czeeho-Slovaks hold the railroad from Pumari 'into Siberia, and the capture of Simbirsk gives them control of the Volga, thus threatening Kazan, Misani, and Novgorod, and even Moscow.

Apparently there is no chance of the Bolsheviks being able to prevent the Czeeho-Slovaks advancing in southeastern Russia.—'Aus. N.Z. CaMe Assoc.

GERMAN FRONT ADVANCED.

Paris, Aug. I®. The Matin's s!uric J h correspondent states that, in accordance with the agreement with the local Bolsheviks, the German front has been advanced eastward and the Germans are occupying Vitebsk and Smolensk.—Aus. CaWe Assoc.

ANTI-GERMANISM IX POLAND-

Zurich, Aug. 19. An attempt to assassinate the chief of the Gorman Secret Service at Warsaw failed and a fight ensued between the culprits and a German military patrol. Two of the former were 'killed, but the rest escaped. The Germans are making wholesale arrests throughout Poland, esjiecialy at Lomza, and P'oclc Those arrested are accused of joining Brigadier Pek'uski's forces.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Association.

CENTRAL POWERS ABANDON BOLSHEVIKS. London, Aug. 19. The Daily Telegraph's Milan correspondent quotes the newspaper Secolo as stating that the Austro-Germans at a conference decided to abandon the Bolsheviks, clearly-foreseeing the re-estab-lishment of the eastern front. They are unable to send masses of troops to Russia, and therefore are withdrawing from Moscow to the railway line between Petrograd and Mohiley. They believe they can hold this line, certainly in the meanwhile, and thus strengthen the occupation of the Baltic provinces.

A BRITISH APPPOTNTMEX7. ■ Received Aug- 20, 5.5 p.m. Mans;, Aug. 19. Sir Charles Eliot has heen rppoinied High Commissioner and Minister Plenipotentiary in Siberia. He will lie stationed at Vladivostoek. —'Router.

ALLIED AID NEEDED,

CZECHOSLOVAKS DISAPPOINTED. 'London, Aug. 19. . In connection with the appeal of the Cfeecho-Slovak general for assistance, it w pointed out that only six weeks remain'before -winter. It is important that the forces in eastern Siberia meantime should link up with Irkutsk, overcoming the Bolshevik forces eastward and southward of Lake Baikal.

Obviously the Czecho-Slovak.? are disappointed at the dimensions of the Alllied assistance.—Aus. N.Z. C.ih'e Assoc.

CHINESE TAKE A HAND. Beceived Aug. -20, 8.30 p.m. London, Aug. 19. The Chinese Government lias sent a force to oppose the German prisoners congregating near the Siberian 'border. — Reutef.