RUSSIA.
SITUATION DESPERATE, -PECJPLE- DYING OF STARVATION. -■• BOLSHEVIK ATKOCTTIE& Received March i, 1.30 ajn. Stockholm, March 2. Travellers from Petrograd state that the situation is desperate. Human beings, thin as laths, wander about the streats, but their swollen faces are a sign o£ approaching death from starvation. Lenin has been imprisoned for three days for a speech with reconciliatory tendency. The Bolsheviks bomb.irded Narva with 5000 shells, killing many people and emptying the town. The Bolsheviks committed awful outrages at Dorpat. They ordered a large number of the leading citizens into a cellar, forced them, to strip naked, and then shot every one with dumdum bullets.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc. CONCESSIONS TO FOREIGNERS. RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION AND FORESTS. Received March 3, 7.55 p.m. Stockholm, Feb. 27. A decree by the People's Commissaries announces that owing to the inability of the Soviet Republic to carry on certain industrial enterprises, concessions will be granted to foreigners, especially with a view to the construction of the great northern railway and the development of vast stretches of Russian forest land. —Reuter.
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 March 1919, Page 5
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