RUSSIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 February 1920, Page 5

RUSSIA.

EVERYONE MUST WORK k

LENIN ON SOVIET SUCCESSES.

By Teleeraph.—Press Ansn.—Copyright. Received Fab. 15, 5.5 p.m. London, Feb. 11. A Moscow Wireless message states that a decree compels ail over sixteen to carry a labor booklet, which serves as a passport and ensures universal productive work. Citizens unable to produce the booklet are put to manual labor.

Lenin, appealing for economic restoration, declared that a two-fold victory, the Red Army successes and the raising of the blockade, was ''dun solely to the sympathy the Soviet inspires in the workmen of histile countries. Our propaganda deprived the Entente of the possibility of using their armies."—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. DEPORTING ODESSA REFUGEES. Constantinople, Feb. A, There are 10,000 refuses on the ships at Odessa awaiting to escape from the city. Russian officers and other refugees are marching in small bands to Tiraspol on the Roumanian border. The British battleship Ajax, three British destroyers, American destroyers and a French gunboat are standing by. The British cruiser Ceres is towing a steamer loatfad with refugees to Varna.—Reuter. PITIFUL STATE OF PEOPLE. London, Feb. 12. The special correspondent of the Times in Soviet Russia, describing his experiences, declares that social conditions could hardly be worse. Russia industrially is almost at a standstill. Politically the Bolsheviks have increased their hold on the mass of the people, who havo now given up hopes of deliverance through th'i Allies. Bolshevism is fast gaining ground with all classes, though hated and distrusted by nearly everybody, but the people see no other choice- Cast-iron discipline is welding the masses into a great soulless machine. Reorganised and well disciplined the Red Army is a force to be seriously reckoned with.—Timet, JtOLTCHAK'S FATE. London, Feb. 13. Official.—Koltchak has been executed. Rumors are current at Kharbin, Manchuria, to tlie effect that the remnants of IColtehak's armies were recaptured at Irkutsk, finding no trace of Koltchak or i gold.—Times Service.