RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 September 1918, Page 6

RUSSIA.

f ; fILG REIGN OF TERROR, ' MASSACRES DAY AND NIGHT. PEOPLE ARRESTED EN MASSE." Received Sept. 28, 5.5 p.m. New York, Sept. 27. The New York Times' Washington correspondent says the State Department has received official information regarding the Russian reign of terror in Bolshevik territory. On September oan order was issued at Moscow for the arrest of members of the diplomatic mission, the French consul-general and the military attache. They took refuge at the American consulate. The British consul, Mr. Lockhart, was imprisoned in the Kremlin on September 4. The advices said that the massacre of Russian citizens was continuing at Moscow, there being approximately 150 executions nightly, while more than a thousand people have been shot in retaliation for the attempt on Lenin's life. The most violent element of the Bolsheviks controlled Petrograd. People were arrested en masse, and an unknown number were shot daily at Kronstadt. —Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. and Reuter. DIPLOMATS IN NEW YORK.

NEW PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT. . New York, Sept. 27. Messrs (Doseli Fleurot and Poole have arrived in New York from Moscow. On ibeing interviewed they said the American Consulate flew the Norwegian flag for protection against the Bolsheviks, but the Lettish Guards surrounded the building and permitted no food to enter the consulate. There is a danger that the water supply may have been cut off. The French Consul-General, Mr Grenard, and the French military attache, General Livsrgene, were among, the beseiged. Mr Poole was the only diplomat allowed to pass in and out of the American Consulate- Y.M.O.A. workers in Moscow were arrested, the Bolsheviks alleging that they were involved in counter revolutionary plots.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. New York, Sept. 2 ft. With regard to the news from Ufa about the Provisional Government, Jt is stated that the members of the National Constitutional Assembly, elected a year afro, have formed a new Government which is composed of a directorate of members, anion? whom are the present or former heads of the three main sectional Governments of Archangel, Onjsk, and Samara- The members of "the directorate are Avkezentieff, Astrof. Vologodsky, Tskhaicovs'cv and Boldireff. The new Government will co-operate with the Czechoslovaks. ' '•he Embassy has also received a cable from the Russian Legation at Peking saying that the Omsk Government has mobilised two classes of soldiers. There is now an army of more than 200.000 men and 50,000 officers well organised and disciplined. —Aus.-N.Z.- Cable Assn. A JAPANESE SUCCESS. Received Sept. 20, 5 ."> p.m. London, Sept. 23. A Japanese 1 official report states:—Our cavalry effected a junction at Rufulov, 300 miles north-west of Blftgovestcheck. on the 22nd and 23rd, and occupied Zeya-pristan.—Aus.-NZ. Cable Assoc. and Renter.