RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 January 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA.

LENIN AND TROTSKY. CAUSE OF DISPUTE. Copenhagen, .Tan. 8. The Gothenburg Gat.:tfc learns that the dispute between Ltnin and Trotsky arose out o£ Lenin's demand that the Bolsheviks coalesce with the Menshiviks. Trotsky insisted on a continuation of the reign of terror. —Aws. Cable Assoc. CHINESE REVOLUTIONA.H.Y PROPAGANDA. London, Jan. 9. A TlneEian wireless states that a meeting °f union Chinese workmen at -Moscow declared in favor of starting a propaganda service in China favoring a social revolution, also asking the assistance of t.he Soviet Government in organising propaganda and despatolring propagandists to China.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. BOLSHEVIK FIENDISH TORTURES. London, Jan. 8. Mr. Jeffries describes awful Bolshevik atrocities, reviving the most fiandish medieval tortures. A marauding A a,l £ in Pondolia seized a Polish landlora and pulled his limbs apart till the body wVi ripped. The remains were hacked to pieces and burned. Six managers and overseers at a factory at Schienski were bound in weather with the thermometer below zero, and water was ponred on their heads till they were frozen solid.

Russian officers were torn to piocen. Some had their bones broken wnd otherswere killed by the application of an electric current. —Times Service.