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RUSSIA.

SANGUINARY APPEALS. INDIVIDUAL TERRORISM. Received Sept. 10, 10.30 p.m. London, Sept. 10. The Daily Chronicle's Stockholm correspondent states that the latest 80l shevik papers are filled with sanguinary articles, appeals, and resolutions demanding a war of terroism against the bourgeoisie in revenge for the attempts on Lenin and Uritzky. Tiic general watchword is "individual terrorism." The Petrograd commune has decided to begin the extermination of the bourgeoisie. The Krasnaya Gazette demands pitiless vengeance on the social revolutionaries, and adds that laws and tribunals of justice are not needed to make blood flow. - The day following the outrages in Petrograd the Soviet increased the Soviet guards' wages to £SO monthly, plus food. They are the only persons receiving full subsistence. The people have had no bread for several days and very little meat. TORTURED TO DEATH. FATE OF THE BOLSHEVIK GOVERNMENT. A GRIM ACCOUNT. Received Sept. 11, 12.15 a.m. London, Sept. 10. Mr. Ransome, the Daily News' Russian correspondent, writing from Stockholm, says that to-day's news from Russia illustrates with terrible clearness the present position of the Soviet Government. It shows that the Soviet revolution is being slowly but surely tortured to death by starvation. The peasant uprising at Nijni Novgorod and Tula, and the anti-Soviet Assembly at Moscow, do not signify conscious, patriotic revolts, They are rather the terrific, blind gestures of starving revolution tearing at its own flesh. Starvation in the towns accentuates the conflict Detween town and country. The people angrily demand food and peace, seeking any change, though no change can possibly remove starvation immediately; so men grow desperate, and death struts in the streets openly until it has now lost its terrors. —Aus.N.Z. Cable Assoc. CZECHS' IMPORTANT CAPTURES. JAPANESE PRESENCE FELT. Received Sept. 10, 7.30 p.m. Pekin, Sept. 0. It is reported that the Czechs have 'ptured Chita, which is exceedingly important since the Bolsheviks fortified it. Evidently the presence of the Japanese is being felt. General Semenofi' is damaging the enemy's morale. The Czechs have possession of the greater part of the transSiberian railway.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Association. ARREST OF ALLIES' CONSULS. Received Sept. 10, 9.35 p.m. Washington, Sept. 9. The State Department has received from Stockholm official confirmation of the arrest of all the French and British consular and other officials in Russia by the Bolshevike.—Press Assoc. BOLSHEVIKS'' MURDERS. Amsterdam, Sept. 0. Messages from Petrograd contain official announcement that there have been 512 shootings hitherto, as reprisals for the murder of Uritzki. The names of 121 hostages are published who are to bo shot in case of a fresh attempt. These include five Grand Dukes, two of Kerensky's Ministers, and prominent exofficcrs. It is stated that 35 big landowners, also the ex-Archimandrite of Moscow, were shot at Smolensk, as a reprisal for the attack on Lenin. —Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. ALLIES PROGRESS. New York, Sept. !). A United Press mesage from Vladivostock reports that Japanese cavalry occupied the Iman-Ussuri front at the junction of the Iman and Ussuri rivers. The United Press correspondent at Peking states that General Semenoff, on the Manchurian front, has reached the fortifications of Borgia, on the transSiberian railway, south-east of Tscliita. Cavalry is aiding General Semenoff's force and took 100 of the enemy prisoner. The correspondent adds that advices from Harbin state that Bolshevik troops destroyed the trans-Siberian railway west of Daura. The United Press Shanghai correspondent reports that Khabarovsk, in Siberia, has been captured by Japanese troops.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. PROTEST AGAINST BOLSHEVIK METHODS. New York, Sept. 0. The State Department, Washington, has received official advices saying that the Allied Powers, through the Ministers for Holland, Denmark, Switzerland, and Norway, have notified the Bolshevik authorities in Moscow that they will be held personaly responsible for the safety of the Allied consular offices and the mission now in Russia. A Note has been presented to M. Tcliitcherin, vigorously protesting against his latest action in connection with the proposed arrangements lor the departure of the consuls and missions Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. The way to decide a cough or cold Is knowledge worth much more than gold; So, as you'll catch a cold some day Bead, mark and learn the surest way. Spread extra blankets on your bed, And just before you lay your head, Drink down a steaming dose, be sure, Jof • well-stirred Woods' Great Pejgper-.

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Taranaki Daily News, 11 September 1918, Page 5

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Tapeke kupu
716

RUSSIA. Taranaki Daily News, 11 September 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA. Taranaki Daily News, 11 September 1918, Page 5

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