RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 January 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA.

COMMUNISTS' INITIAL | SUCCESS. DDE TO TREACHERY OF GUARDS. Received Jan. 9, 7.40 p.m. Bc-rne, Jan. 8. Advices from Berlin show that the initial successes of the Bolshevist communists were due to treachery of the troops guarding the public buildings. Despite their previous oath of loyalty to the republic, they laid down their arms and sided with the communists. The outbreak was largely due to Russian Bolshevists ordering their accomplices, Eichorn and Liebkneeht, to prevent at all costs the election of a Constituent Assembly.—Aus. jSf.Z. Cable Assoc.

BOLSHEVIK DESECRATION. CHURCHES USED FOR PICTURE SHOWS. Beceived Jan. 9, 7.40 p.m. Amsterdam, Jan. 8. Among the' amazing doings of Russian Bolsheviks is the action of the Petrograd Soviet in transforming twenty-one churches into picture palaces for propaganda purposes. One hundred and fifty thousand prisoners arrived from Germany, and those hostile to Bolshevism were forced to attend lectures on the principles of Soviet rule.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Asaoc.

PETROGRAD CONTROLLED BY a woiyi^ SURPASSING CRUELTY. Helsingfors, Jan. 7. Members of the Danish Legation from Petrograd state that British civil and military officials imprisoned in Moscow are being tyrannically treated. The real dictator of Pefcrograd is a woman, aged 2:i, named Jacobleva, chief of the anti-counter revolutionary committee. Her cruelty surpasses all existing legends. Many die of starvation in the streets daily. The population has sunk to 800,000. Three-quarters' of the shops are closed. The tram vays are suspended and the electric light may only be j used two hours daily. The Red Guards | in the Potrograd district- number 80,000. I ( —Keuter.

TROTSKY AT MOSCOW. HUMORED ARREST OF LENIST. London, Jan. 8. It is reported from Miwcow that Trotsky has assumed the dictatorship after arresting LeDin.—Atis. N.Z. CaWe Assoc.

ANOTHER SENSATIONAL STORY, ROMANOFFS SAID TO BE ALIVE. London, Jan. 8. The Morning Post's Archangel correspondent sends a sensational story that the ex-Czar is not dead. The Grand Duke Cyril, who is the narrates, had a letter last November from the Princess Tatiana, the Czar's daughter, saying that the Emperor, the Empress, and tbtir daughters were all alive. The Bolshevik officer who was ordered to carry out the death sentence told the Emperor: "It is a matter of indifference to me who is shot. I have only to produce a corpse. A bullet in the head would make the victim's identification impossible." Count J<—- offered to sacrifice himself, and the Czar protested; hut the Count overruled him and the Czar escaped, but his whereabouts i 3 unknown. —Aus. N-Z. Cable Assoc.

SHIPPING MATTERS. RUMORED AMiALGAMATKHT. London, Jail. 8It is rumored in the city that the P. and 0. Company lias acquired a controlling interest m the Orient Company.— Aus.-N-Z. Cable Assoc. THE POSITION IX STDNES. PSOPOSIT3DN BY PRIVATE KftM.

Sydney* Jan- •• There is no alteration u>. tlie shipping trouWe. The New Zealand Government Agent states that if the dispute continues a private firm proposes to charter a vessel to accommodate 200 passengers to New Zealand.—Aua.-NJ3. C|*J>Jo £flßoC.