RED RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 November 1919, Page 5

RED RUSSIA.

HORRORS OF BOLSHEVISM,

WHOLE FAMILIES KILLED. A FIGHT TO LIVE. By Telegraph —Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Nov. 12, f>.s p.m. Sydney, Nov. 12. Mr. Harold Tanner has arrived from Finland with the object of developing trade with Australia. He said that Finland assisted fighting the Bolsheviks in Finland. He gives a blood-curdling account of the atrocities of the Bolsheviks, whose favorite method was to nail whole families to tables and put spikes through their fongues. People were crucified in churches and others were suspended hy their feet till they died. Many had deep incisions cut in their bodies and salt was rubbed into the wounds. The whole thing was too horrible for anyone to have imagined possible. Bolshevism in Russia had degenerated into a bestial elemental stage, when everyone had to fight to live.— Aui.-N.Z. Cable Assn. HANDLING NEW PROBLEMS. CONTROL OF NON-BOLSHEVIK SEC. TIONS. TASK FOR LEAGUE OF NATIONS. Received Nov. 12, 8.30 p.m. New York, Nov. 10. It is understood that the Russian problems will be referred to the League of Nations, which will give mandates ovei different sections of non-Bolshevik Russia, It is suggested that England should become mandatory for Northern Russia, the United States and Japan for Siberia, and France for the Ukraine. It is said that I the League, assisted by the Russian Council, sitting in Paris, will be able to ! direct operations against the Bolsheviks without necessarily granting recognition to any one Russian Government.—Aus.j N.Z. Cable Assn. ' ARMIES IN RETREAT. ATTACK ON FINLAND COMING, i REDS IN MASSED FORMATION. London, November 10. The Daily Express publishes a Tokio message from Omsk, stating that Koltchak's retreating armies are murdering their officers. Helsingfors, Nov. 10. General Yudenitch is endeavouring to retire behind the Luga river, seeking to escape from being pinned in between : Lake Peipus and Narva Bay, with which he is threatened. The Bolsheviks are concentrating large forces at Rakakenmu, on the Finnish frontier, preparing an attack on Finland. The latest news from Russia suggests that the position of Yudenitch and Koltehak is going from bad to worse, as Yudenitch is rapidly falling back upon Yamburg, and the Bolsheviks are strenuously seeking to cut off his retreat by a blow on his flank. It- is no longer a matter of defending certain strategic positions, but of withdrawing from the most dangerous possible situation with the smallest loss. An officer of high rank in Helsingfors states that Yudenitch had only 10,000 men when he attacked Petrograd, and the whole scheme was foolhardy in the extreme. Koltchak's collapse is equally serious, especially as on the left flank the loss of Petropavlovsk gives the Reds a base for an attack on Omsk. ' London, Nov- 10. Mr. Wilton telegraphs fron Omsk on the 4th that the collapse on the Koltehak front was due to the failure of the Cossacks at Petropavlovsk. The panic at Omsk is subsiding. The Reds are pouring in troops from a new levy of 650,000, who are using the German methods of massed formations. The Government ordered the evacuation of Omsk, but has now decided to defend it to the end. This is against [military advice and threatens a great i catastrophe.