STARVING RUSSIA.
PEASANTS OUT OF CONTROL. TRAIL OF DESTRUCTION. A STATE OF SIEGE. By Telegraph.—-Press Assn Copyright. Received July 28, 8.20 p.m. London, July 28. The correspondent of the Morning Post reports that hordes of starving Russian peasants are marching on Moscow, destroying everything en route. 'They entirely devastated the town of Tamboff, three hundred miles south-east of Moscow, overwhelming a Red army sent to stop them. Peasants nave killed and eaten the horses of the Bolshevik cavalry, the fire brigades and the municipal services. Red troops refused to shoot after hunger demonstrations and strikes, but 20,018 women were shot in Petrograd. j The Berlin, correspondent of the Daily Express states that the Soviets have proclaimed a state of siege in Petrograd and Moscow. A Russian paper in Berlin reports that Trotsky has been arrested.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 July 1921, Page 5
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138STARVING RUSSIA. Taranaki Daily News, 29 July 1921, Page 5
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