RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 October 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

TIDINGS OF BRITISHERS. BRUTAL TREATMENT. Received Oct. 3, 2.5 a.m. London, Oct. 2. The Daily Chronicle states that the latest tidings of the English prisoners in Petrogr&d have been received from The Chronicle's correspondent, dated: PeterPaul Fortress, September 6, and reached London cireuitously. He says that after Uritsky was murdered on August 30 the Bolshevik newspapers unanimously accused the so-called English Club of engineering the murder, though not a single " Englishman was a member. The attack on the Embassy followed. The English residents fully expected to be lynched, such was the violence of the Red Guards, but they were merely arrested and confined at the police prefecture. They included Mr. Mackie, ViceConsul, and the British chaplain, the correspondents of the Chronicle, Morning Post and Daily Express. The Times says the prisoners were herded with 130 others, including mur. derers, burglars and criminals of.every description, there being only beds for .36. One criminal, on familiar terms with the visiting police commissary, explained that the commissary was formerly his criminal associate, and was sentenced to death for housebreaking, but was released on condition thaj; he betrayed his associates. He now rides a motor, tracing his friends, of whom he has already betrayed two hundred. The attitude of the Red Guards towards the prisoners was mostly correct, but the commandant was brutal. Frosh prisoners were constantly arriving, the overcrowded room being foul and stifling. THE LUST OF BLOOD. !§ A CRIMINAL AS COMMITTEE PRESIDENT. Received Oct. 2, 5.5 p.m. London, Oct. 1. Jacob Peters, president of the Moscow committee combating the revolution, who is responsible for many of the executions, is stated to be the person concerned in the Eoundsditch murders in 1910 and Sydney Street in 1011. —Aus.. >T.Z. Cable Assoc.