RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 September 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

_ i RUSSIAN ANARCHISM. PORTRAYED BY AUSTRIANS. : Received Sept. 11, 11.35 p.m. ! t 1 London, Sept. 11. ' One of the most complete pictures of - Russian anarchy and terrorism is con--1 tained in an official document issued by r the Austrian propaganda department - with a view of warning the Austror Hungarian public of the dangers of heeding the anarchist agitation. The document begins with the cynical confession that the Central Powers used Lenin as an agent in order to divide Russia, dissolve the political institutions, and destroy the army. The highest State officials were chosen not for capacity, hut because their Bolshevism reached a sufficiently high pitch. Soviet rule, based on bayonets, was worse than Czarisin ever was. Those grasping power under the Soviet Btandard did so either because they want to tyrannise or from corrupt motives.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. 1 Received Sept. 12, 12.40 a.m. r Even the highest Bolshevik leaders accept bribes, while officials reek with corruption. The troops are destitute of discipline, and don or doff their uniforms ' when they please. They go home when they like, and only return to their barracks when they find food insufficient in ' the fortress. * Dunaberg meantime held 200,000, living on rations extorted from the popu- • lation. The only soldiering consisted of i firing rifles in order to terrorise the in- [ habitants. The police force is non- \ existent. Any one professing Bolshevism can safely commit any crime with impunity. Murders and iynchings are com- , mon occurrences, and are almost a Bol- ' shevik pastime. They attack vehicles, rob passers-by, and strip victims' naked. : The so-called administration of justice ' recalls the French terrors. Mobs invade , the court and throw judges out if dis- [ satisfied, and try cases themselves. Sav- , age scenes are. often witnessed. An old j admiral was sentenced to death and shot ', outside the court because he was too \ weak to walk to the place of execution. r Bolshevik sailors at Sebastopol mur« ! dered the train-drivers because they . would not start a train to their orders, [ Meanwhile all industry, commerce, and , social life are ruined. The great textile r factories in Moscow were ruined during five days of Bolshevik management. ; Then blame was cast on the directors 1 and the engineers, the majority of whom . were murdered. Huge steel works in Petrograd, including the famous Putiloff works, were 1 similarly ruined. The postal service is anarchic. Leti ters from Petrograd to Moscow often > take six weeks. The railways are in a . ruinous condition. ; The document, which confesses that '. the Central Powers intrigued to reduce , Russia to this state of helplessness, con- . eludes by saying: "It is questionable if the Central Powers can any longer have . any motive or interest in sustaining the ; Bolsheviks, whose poison must not be '. allov.-ed to penetrate Austro-Hungary." I BOLSHEVIK MASSACRES. l ! PROMPTED BY DESPERATION. \ ... New York, Sept. 9. 1 Mr. Arno Dosi-h Fleurot, the New ! York World's correspondent at Stockholm, has.just, arrived from Petrograd ' and Moscow with a party of refugees of [ Allied nations. 1 He cables that he is afraid to tell the ' truth about the horrors of Russia, be- ' cause the Bolsheviks may take venge--1 ance on the remaining Allied citizens, whose live 3 "hang on a thread." Executions in Moscow by order of the Bolsheviks' tribunals are so frequent that Maxim silencers are used to pre- > vent the sounds reaching the masses. The Lettish executioners in the army refuse to shoot any more victims. Chinese troops are now the Bolshevik executioners. There are similar scenes in every Russian city, and the conditions ■ are even worse in the provinces. The Bolshevik Government is abandoned toy the pasants and realises that unless it rules 3 by terror it will be unable to govern the 3 people. The struggle has now passed » the stairc of a class conflict; every other '. Bolshevik is now at. the throat of every ' other man. 2 Mr.' Fleurot says he has never seen jgucli scenes; they, are only comparable 'to. the Reign of Terror in France, and in some respects are worse- The peasf 'huts are revolting everywhere, and for t three wpeks before he left Petrograd there was constant sanguinary fighting ! between the peasants and" the Red 3 Guards ;"0 miles from the city. The ' T !ed .Army was. however, so weak that it was only ahlo to hold the front acain'4. Czechoslovaks because the latter were advancing slowly and reor ringing flic country as thev advanced. Thousands of soldiers were deserting the \ Red Army, which was lionelessly cliaorganised. Everyone in Russia knew ' that the Allies or Czechoslovaks, with 20.000 .men, could capture Moscow with little difficulty.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assoc. A BLOODY DRAMA. THE POSITION REVIEWED. London, Sept. 10. Mr. Ransome says that the Bolsheviks. believing that if they go under the e revolution will strangle itself or be - strangled by forces without- Russia, now e take less account of human lives in what thev regard as a sacred effort to save ■ the intellect of the revolution from the apiroaehinw delirium. I If the Soviet Government ha 3 a pro- ,- Kunbed list, its opponents have another, a so murder on one side meets execution - on the other. <t While this bloody drama is being played in the towns, the dreadfulfor food continues. All the Moscow res-s e teurants' are closed, and scraps of salts - fish and other replace bread..: r 'n,.. Orolis, Cossacks, anuVGernnuis*lbar' t the roads to the national'.*food supplies;, r ih' Soviets' internal enemies -Stow up; the bridges and organise-disorder,;;ham--poring the-■ distribution of whaflittlet food the Soviets possess. i The Germans, while thej, can, Jv are* trymc to wring money fron>the«ießper--0 afi> Government which stroggW to» keep* I* control The Germanswknow -that Rasaia's, -cannot .pay, and want to sfaeagEßteri' 11 ' their holdi'or^their'-mifiariaiaatei^to.is.'*