PETROGRAO HORRORS.
SITUATION DESPERATE
STOCKHOLM, March 2.
...Travellers from iPetrograd-state that the situation is desperate. Human beings as thin as laths .wander about the streiets, but their swollen faces are a sign of approaching death from starvation.
Lenin has been imprisoned for three days for a speech with a recouciliatory tendency. The Bolsheviki bombarded Narva with 5000 shells, killing many people and emptying the town. They committed a.v».ul outrages at Dorpat., They ordered a large-, number of leading citizens into a cellar and %f_%ed them, to strip. They then shot every"one with dumdum bullets.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIX, Issue 9540, 4 March 1919, Page 6
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