RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 October 1918, Page 3

RUSSIA.

> THE TERROR IN MOSCOW. TERRIBLE STORIES^ London, Oct. M. Tel! Daily News correspondent, Mr. Kansome, telegraplis .from Stockholm extraordinary details of the Russian terror, based on the story of Major Wardell, of the American Red Cross, whom the Soviet allowed to visit the Moscow prisons regularly. He says the situation in Petrograd and Moscow is appalling. Many millions are doomed to death by starvation. People are dying in the streets and horses ar<s everywhere dropping dead. The terror is a real tiling. Thus Lenin's doctor advised Lenin to go to the country. Lenin said "Where?" The doctor refused to suggest, saying that if anything happened to Lenin he (the doctor) would be arrested and shot.

The girls employed by the Soviet's Extraordinary Commission display shocking indifference. Relatives come to inqi Ire of the fate of prisoners and the girls turn up a ledger and reply ''shot'' or "unknown,'' with utter disregard of Wie effect upon the questioners. Sometimes there are half a dozen people in hysttlics at the same time at the offices of the Extraordinary Commission. The girls do not regard the counterrevolutionaries as human beings. The leaders of the terror sometimes act against Lenin. On one occasion Lenin appealed to the commission on hehalf of an acquaintance, but. the latiev was promptly shot. —Alls. N.Z. Cable Assoc.