RUSSIA.
REPORTED BOLSHEVIK OPERATIONS 'g&A&e&BRmSH SHIPS DAMAGED.) Reeeived May 7, 5.5 p.m. London, May 2. A message from Abo states that the Bolshevik fleet bombarded Narva and severely damaged the French and British warships who were patrolling the Finnish Gulf. No details are available. —Times Service.
FAILURE OF BOLSHEVISM THE GOVERNMENT COLLAPSING. Reoeived May 8, 11 p.m. London, May 7. The Herald's London correspondent interviewed Sokoloff, the Russian economist, who is a Bolshevik and close friend of Lenin and Trotsky. Sokoloff has just arrived from Russia, and said the Bolshevik regime was unsuccessful, because it failed to keep the laboring classes disciplined. The Government compelled the peasants to pay levies, although they had planned that the levies should come from the bourgeoisie. Land conditions had been allowed to become chaotic. The Government, failed to establish State farms. Inefficiency and corruption among local Bolshevik authorities also contributed to the failure. The Lenin-Trotsky Government was collapsing.
BRITISH POSITION SAM. London, Mar G. General Ironside is confident' that there is now no danger of a puseessful enemy attack on the Archangel front.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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