RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 January 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA.

( ffER TO PRESIDENT WILSON BOLSHEVIKS FEAR COUNTER MOVEMENT Copenhagen, Jan. IT. Litvinoff has again sent a message to President Wilson offering to terminate the Bolshevist world propaganda if the Allies will enter into peace negotiations with Russia. The Bolsheviks at Jteval are hastily retreating owing to news that a counter revolutionary movement lias broken out in Petrograd.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. 8000 DEATH WARRANTS. THE BLOODTHIRSTY BOLSHEVIKS. Received Jan. 21, 11.20 p.m. Copenhagen, Jan. 19. Advices from Finland state that the Bolshevik Commissioner Fritsi signed over SOOO death warrants. His successor, Boiki, was dismissed because he could not maintain the same average.— Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc BOLSHEVIK FINANCE. ,;r AN ENORMOUS DEFICIT.. | Received Jan. 21, 11.20 p.m. Stockholm, Jan. 19. Petrograd advices state that the Bolshevik budget forecast for 1919 tota-U four hitrdred thousand million roubles. The deficit will be enormous. For example, the postal and telegraphic expenditure exceeds the revenue by over fifteen hundred million roulles.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. MURDERS IN ESTHOMIA. Received Jan. 21, 11.20 p.m. Helsingfors, Jan. 19. Before the evacuation of Dorpat, tlic Bolsheviks shot 225 men and BO women, including the Bishop of Esthonia and four Lutheran pastors—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. ~y