RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 May 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA.

BRIGHTER DAYS IN STORE,

BOLSHEVIKS BEING PURSUED,

Received May 17, 1.25 p.m. Washington, May 9. The Russian Embassy, in a statement, says that Bolshevism is undoubtedly dying, and the hour when the Omsk Government will be ready to establish itself as the Government pi Russia is approaching. General Kolehak's forces are rapidly nearing the Volga and pursuing the; Bolsheviks. BLOODY BOLSHEVIKS, GRAVEDIGGEE'S GRUESOME STORY. Received May 18, 5.5 p.m. London, May 8. Advices from Ekaterinodar, in the Kuban province of Transcaucasia, state that I the gravedigger at Paitigorsk, where generals and ex-Ministers, including Kussky and Dcitrieff, were massacred during the Bolshevik regime, narrated how he was awakened midnight by Red Guards carrying naked swords, and ordered to accompany them to a large grave where 35 prisoners, old and young, were ordered to bare their necks and kneel. The leader commanded his followers to begin from the left. Five Red Guards proceeded to carry out the execution in a leasurely manner, like butchers chopping meat, often missing the neck and slashing the face. Some of the victims fell outside the grave and were kicked in, When the work was finished, the Red Guards lit cigarettes and laughed and jested, while groans were audible beneath the earth as the grave was filled in. Another SO victims were treated similarly an hour later. —Reuter. BEATING BACK THE BOLSHEVIKS. Received May 18, 11.5 p.m. London, May 17. Official advices from North Russia state that the Bolsheviks attacked General Maynard's positions at Lake Segozero. Our counter-attack on both flanks was carried out with great dash. The enemy fled southward, leaving fifty dead. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. 1 NO SAMMIES FOR PETROGRAD. j Received May IS, 7.5 p.m. I. Paris, May 17. The Americans will not participate in any offensive towards Petrograd.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. BOLSHEVIK BRUTALITY. London, May 9. Messages from Riga state that the situation is desperate. The Bolsheviks are treating civilians with horrible cruelty- They placed 30,000 women and children on a barren island in the river, and no arrangements were made to feed the "unfortunates who are star-ving.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. BOLSHEVIK COLLAPSE PREDICTED. j Paris, May 10. , General Koltchak has captured Samara. Tdkio, May 9. Japanese correspondents at Omsk report that the Reds are retreating. The I Soviet commissaries are deserting, but the Chinese, Lettish, and Magyar merI cenaries are resisting desperately. The other forces are melting away, and a Bolshevik collapse is foreshadowed. General Koltchak expects to reach Mobcow in three months. New York, May 9. The New York Times' Washington correspondent says the State Department has received advice saying that the Archangel Government recognised the Omsk Government as the supreme authority in Russia. Dispatches from Archangel say that British gunboats which were fighting the Bolsheviks on the Dwina River are missing.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.