RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 June 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA.

- A REIGN OF TERROR, MASSACRES AT RIGA. Received June 9, 11.45 p.m. London, June 4. Prior to quitting Riga the Bolsheviks indulged in a reign of terror. 'Jut of 20,000 inhabitants sentenced to death 1760 were executed.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. i . FOOD FOR PETROGRAD. 'WHEN THE BOLSHEVIKS ARE DRIVEN OUT. By Telegrapb.—Press Ajju.—CopyrteM. Received June 9, 8.5 p.m. . London June 8. The Morning Post, in a Stockholm message, reports that food-laden transports have arrived at Reval and Helsingfors to feed Petrograd when the Bolsheviks are driven out of the city. A BATS OF BLOOD. BOLSHEVIKS' EXCESSES. Received June 9, 5.50 p.m. Vienna, June 8. Refugees from western Hungary describe as a bath of blood the events following on the defeat of four thousand anti-Bolahevik peasants at Kolderhof, near Odenburg.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. THE RED ARMY. NOT TO CONTAIN RETURNED PRISONERS. Received June 9, 5.5 p.m. New York, May 30. The Times' Washington correspondent states that official despatches received from Archangel say that the Bolshevik authorities have declined to mobilise into the Reds' Army all returned soldiers from Germany and Austria.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. . GERMANS AND ESTHONIANS.

CUTTING LATTER'S COMMUNICATIONS.

Received June 9, 8.5 p.m. London, June 8-

The Daily Telegraph reports that the German Baltic troops, instead of assisting to cut off the retreating Bolsheviks, have seized the territory north-eastward of Riga that had been'occupied by the Esthonians, and destroyed the railway bridge south-westward of Venden, thus cutting the most important Esthonian communications and leaving the Esthonian.* only a narrow-gauge railway to the east. When asked to withdraw, the Germans attacked the Esthonian vanguard. A fierce fight followed. Subsequently the Germans, using dumdum bullets, attacked the Esthonians in the occupied Lettish towns of Kreutzberg and Jacobstadt. The Bolsheviks in Lithuania were defeated everywhere and are retiring on Dvinsk.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. FINNISH GUARDS NEAR PETROGRAD EPIDEMICS RA3ING. Helsingfors, June B._ The White troops have reached Rajaioki, 92 kilometres (20 miles) from Petrograd. Epidemics due to the famine are raging in Petrograd.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Association.