INTERVENTION IN RUSSIA.
A TERRIBLIi STATE OP THINGS.
Paris, Jan. 22.
Le Petit Parisien says that M. Seavenius' statement at the conference favored immediate energetic intervention in Russia. The peasants in several provinces, lie said, when trying to resist tyranny were shot in hundreds 'by Red Guards. Committees formed in towns, allegedly for the purpose of quelling the counter-revolution, continue to hunt the 'bourgeois. Few intellectuals have escaped imprisonment or revolutionary tribunals. The remaining bourgeois and intellectuals are forced to subsist on starvation rations whereas Bolshevik partisans are allowed ample food. It is understood that M. Scaveniuß greatly impressed the conference. —Aua.N.Z. Cable Assoc.
THE FOOD SITUATION. Paris, Jan. 23,
Mr Barnes and Mr Roberts are assisting at the conference discussing the European food situation. Mr Barnes in an interview said the conference, when dealing with the League of Nations, will simultaneously appoint an international labor commission to devise machinery for handling international labor problems. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assoc.
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Taranaki Daily News, 27 January 1919, Page 6
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