RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 March 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA.

1 SPREADING BOLSHEVISM. EXTRAORDINARY COUNCIL OF WAR ; ' London, March 4. The Geneva correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says: "A correspondent at Kieff discloses that Lenin find Trotsky plafancd to renew the Brest-Litovsk coup, which proved so successful with Germany, and thus entice the Entente into an apparently advantageous peace, with the view of undermining the Allied Governments by propaganda. An extraordinary Council of War held in the Kremlin decided to accept the invitation to the Prinkipo conference with a view of subsequently developing a world-wide Bolshevik doctrine."—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. POOR PEOPLE ELEVATED, A LEVY ON KIEFF.

'Received March 6, 10 p.m. Copenhagen, March 4. When the Bolsheviks entered Kieff they transferred the population from slum quarters to the houses of the wealthy people and vice versa. They also made a levy on the city amounting tci two hundred million roubles. The French troops hold Odessa and a small surrounding belt. —Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. TROTSKY EXULTANT. "VICTORY ASSURED." Received March C, 10 p.m. Helsirigfors, March 3. Trotsky assured the Pan-Russian Soviet Congress that the critical moment had passed. Complete victory was assured for the Bolsheviks, as the Allies were unwilling to intervene. The military situation was satisfactory. There were four tasks ahead—to occupy the Murman-Aroliangel coasts, seize the liver exits to the Black Sea, reach the Prussian frontier, and chase the enemy beyoiid the Urals. He concluded: "We shall achieve these at any cost." A Bolshevik' communique states that at Riga all meti up to 47 and officers to •M have been called up.

The Lettish Soviet Government has established three great concentration camps for the internment of the middle classes.—Aus. N.Z. Gable Assoc.