RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 October 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

BOLSHEVIKS KILLING INDUSTRIES.

REFUGEES SHOT BY HUNDREDS. BRITISH CONSUL IMPRISONED. CONDITIONS HOPELESS. Received Oct. 18, 5.5 p.m. New York, Oct. 17. Mr. Dosch Fleurot, the New York World's Christiania correspondent, cables that the Bolsheviks are killing the millowners and engineers who are capable of reorganising the disrupted Russian industries. A trainload of refugees from Moscow report that refugees are being shot by hundreds. More than seventy Allied officials are imprisoned. Refugees here include the British and French consular officials. The British Consul-General, Mr. Lockhart, interviewed, said: "An attempt was made on August 30 to assassinate Lenin. The same night the British Embassy in Petrograd was raided. I was twice arrested and kept for five days in :lose confinement, and then ?ent to a condemned cell in the Kremlin, but afterwards liberated. Tho cells were overcrowded, there not even being room to sit down. The conditions were appalling and the food revolting. Several inmates went insane. General Lavergne and the British officials escaped to the Norwegian consulate when the embassy Taid occurred, but were besieged by the Bolsheviks and their food and water supply was cut off for several days." Other refugees interviewed said the Bolsheviks are stronger than ever. The conditions are almost hopeless. Wellknown persons in Petrograd continue to mysteriously disappear. —Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.