RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 September 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

CONSULAR STAFF IMPRISONED. ANTI-SOVIET RISINGS. Stockholm, Sept. 12. It is reported that 11 British citizens and II Frenchmen are imprisoned in the fortress of Peter and Paul in Petrograd. They include Mr. Lockhart, British Consul, who has been condemned to death but reprieved owing to the joint representations of neutral Ministers. Reports from Moscow state that the White Guards hare revolted and assumed the government of Nijni Novgorod. Six districts have united against the Soviets. The peasants in Kazan are everywhere arming against the SovietRenter. BOLSHEVIK TERRORISM. ! POLITICAL PRISONERS FURTHER SLAUGHTER EXPECTED. Received Sept. 14,12.55 a.m. New York, Sept. 11. Mr. Dosch Fleurot, writing from Stockholm, says: "I am convinced the outside world does not realise the enormity of the Bolsheviki red terror. Immediately following my escape from Petrograd, I learned that M. Zinovioff, president of the Petrograd Soviet, had executed more than five hundred political prisoners as a reprisal for the death of Uritsky, a Bolsheviki terrorist. Zinovieffs victims were killed because they were educated men belonging to the bourgeoisie. The Bolsheviki are exterminating all possible enemies, however passive. If Lenin dies there will be a further slaughter of innocents." —Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc, and Reuter. COMMUNICATIONS RESTORED. Received Sept. 14, 12.55 a.m. Washington, Sept. 11. It is definitely announced that communication has been restored between Vladivostok, Ekaterinburg, and Samara. Supplies are now forwarded regularly to the Czecho-Slovaks.—Aus. N.Z. Cable