RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 March 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA.

BOLSHEVIK PLANS.

ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF TROTSKY. Received March 16, '.5 p.m. Amsterdam, March 14. Bolshevik commanders declare they have made plans for reaching Archangel on May 1. They claim to have reoccupied territory equal to the area of France during January and February. The Red Guard attempted to assassinate Trotsky in a railway carriage at V itebsk, on the Petrograd railway. The bullet pierced Trotsky's hat, but he was uninjured. Two members of his staff were hit.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable /ssn.

FIERCE BOLSHEVIK ATTACKS,

REPULSED WITH HEAVY LOSS. Received March 10, 5.6 p.m. New York, March 12. New York despatches from Archangel say that the Bolshevik forces fiercely attacked the village of Vistavka, on the Vaga front. Although the Allies were greatly outnumbered the Red Guards were repulsed with heavy losses.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc. BOLSHEVIST ARTILLERYMEN MUTINY. CHINESE COMMIT UNBRIDLED SLAUGHTER. Received March 16, 5.5 pjn. Helingfors, March 14. A Bolshevist artillery division mutinied in Petrograd, refusing to go to the Baltic front. A regiment of the Old Imperial Guard was ordered to suppress the mutiny, but joined the mutineers, killing several Bolshevik officials. Trotsky then rushed the notorious Chinese division from Moscow and quelled the mutineers with unbridled slaughter, the remainder being imprisoned.—Reuter.

HUMAN FLESH SOLD. STARVATION AND EPIDEMICS. Received March 16, nJi p.m. Washington, March 14. Advices from Moscow state that hitman flesh was sold to the famine-stricken population by Chinese soldiers, who were subsequently arrested. Both Moscow and Petrograd are entirely without fuel. The streets of Petrograd are de.-erted. except for soldiers and civilians begging bread. Death, from typhoid and smallpox in the city are estimated at four thousand daily.—Reuter