SOVIET RULE.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 October 1920, Page 6

SOVIET RULE.

i A SERIOUS CRISIS. I I 11} Telfcraiih.—l*res.« A-'S'v-ConsnriSht \ Copenhagen, Oct. 2(i. I Lenin, in a newspaper article, says ! that the republic never before has faced I bu'.:li a serious crisis. Owing to scarcity of food Moscow and other workers' j centres are absolutely starving. It ia ■ :: ; ';'ssary to use force against peasants : to obtain food and all opposing the re- • public must be sent to concentration ! camps and punished.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable ■ Absii. ' ALLEGED CONCESSIONS TO AMERICANS. i New York, Oct. 27.

Martens, the self-styled Soviet Ambassador, announces that he lias received a cablegram from Tchitcherin stating that a syndicate composed of Americans lias obtained a concession of 400,000 square miles in Siberia for exploitation of oil, coal and fisheries. Negotiations were proceeding for an arrangement under which the syndicate would become fiscal agent* ? or the Soviet in America, ilnanoiii'/ purchases up to 500,000,00u do'.:-, ' Aus.-N.Z, Cable Asan. Wa3h.iG.;C.'.i.', Oct. 27. Mr. Colby (Secretary '•/ State) announces that the ,v> ,'-.in representative at Riga cabled that, he had learned that Americans were negotiating with the Soviet concerning a concession and discussed with Lenin the question of rseasruition by the American Government in the event of Mr. Harding (Republican candidate) being elected PresiiSrKuking at Marion, Mr. Harding .'■cttied any knowledge, concerning the Russian concessions or recognition. Official circles in Washington have been stirred by the reports of concessions in Russia. It is pointed out that the Government, warned America Unit any business rolat: ■- undertaken with the Soviet won: ■'. 'w. recognised or protected- .. i.-'J.Z. Cable