RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 August 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA.

AT THE MERCY OP THE BOLSHEVIKS. APPEAL FROM ARCHANGEL. By T«legr«ph—Press Ann.—Copy r'ght. London, August 11. 'Archangel advices state that a moving appeal has been issued to the Western democracies by the President of the Zettstovs of Northern Russia against the withdrawal of the troops, thus leaving the population at the mercy of the Bolsheviks. The. appeal recalls the crimes of the Bolsheviks, their dispersal of the Constituent Assembly, and the wholesale murders of those Who demonstrated in fata*; of the Brest-Litovsk Treaty, the ditflotiition of the Workers' and peasants' • organisations, their shooting of everybody Who Criticised then, and the arrest and ttjpiUslon of non-Bol&hetik Social' :st|. . Despite the terrorism, however, in various parts of Russtg, rose to fight for the Constituent Assembly; Jtni they heard that the Allies were i leaking Russia. TTljis moral and material blow will inaja the struggle against the Bolsheviks bejoral our strength, We shall not give up [tie fight,, but we ask you to rethat help »ot only calk for the gttltMtade, Irat brings certain responsibilities to.:the helper. Consider the of executions of old men and women and the sufferings from hunger and the absence of elementary justice and freedom which will undoubtedly result from the departure of the Allies. Wi , demand' that the Western demcicfacies think what this blow trill meitn. We appeal ty those feelings of hutiah justice which never can die in the of free democracies." SITUATION MUCH IMPROVED. ANTI-BOLSHEVIK FRONT ESTABLISHED. London, August 12. A War Office communique reports that has completed the junction with KotWtek'a left wing, thus establishing an anti-Bolshevik front across the whole of East Russia, between the Urals and the'-'Black Sea. Most important results aW expected as the result of Ceniken's aehiOTittent—Reuter. teiifi has ordered the Minister of Railways to prepare ( ah understanding with ' tha .Menshev.ists, and issued a proclamation reproving workmen for continually deluding higher wages. The Governfflent, JW-ently sought to suppress strikes aKd executed two of the leaders. Nevertlhcftilui'&e strikes spread. The peasants abSttßltely refuse to send grain to the towns. It is reported that Valladis, former Bolthivik Commander-in-Chief and his ;Staff .have been arrested for tisanjsing * counter-revolution.