RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 March 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA.

BRIGANDAGE GENERAL. LENIN APPREHENSIVE,; '■ ' WHOLESALE SLAUGHTER. Received March 4, 10.50 p.m. Copenhagen, March 3. Brigandage in lhe streets of Petrograd is general. Parties, consisting of fifteen or twenty Red Guards each, go about at night terrorising the population and pillaging private houses and' public buildings. Lenin, in a speech at Moscow, said: "The only thing to do is to shoot several hundreds of our own officials in Petrograd and Moscow in on 3 day. Otherwise our own fate is sealed." Leiiin also stated that the production of Soviet hank notes exceeds five hundred millions sterling monthly. Among the hostages whom the Bolsheviks recently killed were Generals Russky and DimitrieiT. They, with a hundred others, were shot down with machine guns, those still alive being hacked to pieces with swords. Peasants refuse to pay all the taxes, and are resisting collection by foroe of arms.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc. SUCCESS OF FRANCO-GREEKS. BOLSHEVISTS FORCED TO RETREAT 1 Received March 4, 7.50 p.m, Athens, Feb. 28. Franco-Greek troops advanced north of Odessa and occupied the fort and town of Tiraspol. The Bolshevists retreated along the Dneister, abandoning much material The Franco-Greeks are pursuing. —Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc. LITHUANIANS DEFEAT BOLSHEVIKS Received March 5,12.35 a.m. Copenhagen, March 3. The Lithuanians, pursuing the defeated Bolsheviks, have reached a line twenty-two kilometres eastward of Vilna>-Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.