RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 September 1919, Page 5

RUSSIA.

UOIiSEBVISTS AND BALTIC STATES. NEGOTIATIONS COLLAPSE. St T«l»p»pi>.—PrtM Atrn.—CopTtljht. ' Received Sept. 22,11.45 p.m. , Copenhagen, Sept. 21. adding to the latest advices the between the Bolsheviks and the Baltio border States have collapsed. Ute Eethoniana, acting also on behalf if tttiutania, h»v« discontinued the parUjtfag. Lithuanian delegates assert that the will never conclude peace •tth the Bolsheviks, who are enemies of civilisation. The- Lithuanians are suspicious of the Poles, believing they Are in communication with Lenin. It is not doubted that Finland will also refuse to negotiate with the Bolsheviks. It is believed at Relsihgfors that the Entente has promised to assist 'the Baltic States if they continue the war against the Bolsheviks A report from Petyograd says that lilt lttti Soviet authorised the opening negotiations with the Entente tit tM basis of the Entente's terms. ©tt diatteti is Petoograd is described H' frightful. A wireless from MoMow states that, MpfrViag t« the Esthonian request for furtitf delay in the peace negotiations to enable tile Baltio States , to reply jointly, the Soviet delegates have 4is- ■ elaibed responsibility for the continufUttt of hostilities. tftSSUCfi WffSTING. fICUSBBVIRS ATTACK ESTONIANS. • Received 'Sept. 22, lid p.m. London, Sept. 21. Ail fisdefii* eeaununiqu® "ports fierce Ighttfijj in the direction of Moff. Many enemy attacks ofl the trenches were reptili«l With heavy loss.—Reuter. MASSACRE OF JEWS. ' FEMALE MURDERERS. Atnstwddtti, Sept. 20. • Sift pogtfltrt at Tapeletra three Jeff? #e» Killed attd thirty injured. In a fttoH ieflOUs outbreak at Diszelly all the JeWS Were m&ssaered and their houses pillaged. A section of the troops sent to restore order joined in the attacks. ; Stockholm, Sept. 21. ?WfMS« Gtlld'o Sohnider, who has arrived from Riga, states that the Bolahtvirts Allot 11632 men, Women, and children in Riga in a short period. The victims were stripped and dragged over the snow-Covered, blbod-soaked prison Jtffd. The executioners, who were intoXicAted, were unable to aim properly and M the legs and stomachs of their vfctobs, laughing at their agonies, which sometimes lasted all day and all night. Ellg&fttly dt«S*ed gltU voluntarily ftcted • as N.Z. Cable Assoc.