RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 September 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

VEILED CHAOS. WORSE THAN" FREXCH REVOLUTIONISE PEOPLE STARVING. « London, Sept. 24. at Almost impenetrable veil hides the jMo» in Russia from the rest of Europe. flka only news conies fragmentarilv and iitermrttently froin the Allies' official •guts and occasional refugees who rttkdh Scandinavia after abandoning their belongings and brilrine their way into •Utility. This gives few details of the dreadful horrors being enacted, but enough is known to show that Russia has sunk to ft depth of anarchy in which ineendiariMt, murder, and infamy of all descriptions are running mad riot. Reliable accounts estimate the murders in Petrograd alone at 500 daily. There is no sign of the appearance of tMf stabilising element, and there is a terrible prospect. Anarchy and disorders already far exceeding the wont in the French and other revolutions, are pro•tsding unchecked. it W estimated in Paris that seven j million Russians are doomed irretrievably to starvation during the comins witter, in which an absolute breakdown of the distribution of coal and firewood preuilts to be one of the leaser evil;. Copenhagen reports that Petrojnad-»is subsisting mostly upon rats. mice, and dogs. This may be an exasperation, but taere is bo doubt that unbelievable h»rott aft being suffered and perpetrated by the workleu und Woodless populations. The British are striving to secure the itltass of British residents, including Mr. Lockhnrt.—United Strvice. STARVATION IN PETROCRAD. >BW.S FROM SIIiEKIA Received Sept. 25, 7.25 p.m. London, Sept. 24. A Mostow message states that 1600 journalists, are starving in the city. Hundreds of famishing pe-jp!* are committing! suicide daily. A later Bolshevik wireless message state* that the food Situation in Moscow it improving Two hundred and ninety-seven waggons have arrived in two day*. Vladivostok reports state that Avkser.tieff presided at a conference of member* of the Constituent Assembly, wiiic'n d'cMcd to follow General Gsrda's army and form a united Government, purged of Rfllsbeviks. This has be-n accepted by the Siberian Duma at Omsk and the Sirnars, Governmentr.. —PruterTHE EX-CZAR'S DIARY. fcESIGXATIOX AND ><..r;itUvV London, Sept. 24. An interesting picture of the life of the late Isar after his abdication is gleaned from fuller accounts of his diary published in the Bolshevist newspapers. The diary records his sorrowful arrival at, Tsarjiltoo Selo in 1917. wJ.ere sinuter-lookiiii__non cummisoionf.l officers were occupying tire great court of tot palace. He found his children. lying ill of measles in an unlightod room He mentions the burning of papers, and the furting of Ms possessions in view of his proposed departure to England. The diary shows how n-liicUnliy he submitted to Kerensky's request only to spend meal t : m« with his family. Tb« ev-moaarch expresses disgust at the soldiers' studied insolence and records: T)nr idiots have decided U celebrate May Day by procossious and rodOther entries are in a tone of resignation and sorrow over Russia's dark pro*peeta, The diary finally records joyWry and thankfully on June 19 the news •J the successful offemrive. oa the southwastsTii fratv-'Reuitf. gxrtBLESS sLMjaam. Washington, Sept 2a. Tin OMa Department has received confirmation of the appalling conditions in Unssnv Thete U ruthless shwgMer of officers and leading citizens, who are ta eaflaia at night with guns muffled or sJfcpttn. TJst French »nd British Otfnjkv(takaal ■* Moses* haw ban Mil* is -A» Hi CkMe Am.