RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 March 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA.

BOLSHEVIK MURDERS. ■- CHINESE EXECUTIONERS. EMPLOYED. Received March 7, 7.35 p.m. London, March 8. Tn the House of Commons Mr. Harmsworth said that though ijhe precise fig. ures were unobtainable, it. w* time that the Bolsheviks had murdered a great number of men, women and children, employing a considerable force of Chinese executioners—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Association. DRAMATIC WAR COUNCIL. LENIN FAVORS A TRUCE. London, March 0. The Daily Chronicle has a remarkable story from Kicff giving details of a dramatic Council of War at the Kremlin, Moscow, when the Entente's invitation was received to send delegates to Prinkipo. Trotsky, who was greatly surprised at the Entente's proposal, informed the War Council that the internal situation was desperate owing to famine and plague, and that the Bolshevik State was threatened with collapse, entailing the destruction of the Red armies.

The extremists, who are advocates of the Red Terror, favored tho continuance of the struggle, but Lenin's speech clinched the matter. He sai'l the time had come to conclude a second Rrest-T.itovslc treaty, this time With the Entente. Let them proclaim to the world they have subdued us, and that the Soviet Republic has capitulated conditionally. We shall know that we have only concluded a truce in order to complete our preparations for a decisive onslaught which will assure our triumph.—Aus. and NZ. Cable Assoc.

DENIKIN SUPPORTED 'BY THE ALLIES. London, March 5. Mr. Cecil Harmsworth, replying to a question, said that the Allies were supporting General Deniken's volunteers in South Russia, who were cordially cooperating with the Don Cossacks against the Bolsheviks. Britain has entered into no negotiations in support of any Ukrainian party. It was understood Petlura was aiming at the establishment of an independent Ukraine.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc.