RUSSIA'S RED TERROR.
IT'S MOST AWFUL FIGURE. POWERS OF LITE AND DEATH. (Received 11.25 a.m.) LONDON", September 23. ILr Arno Doschfleurot, the "New York World's" Stockholm correspondent, cables: "The moat awful figure in Russia's red terror is a dapper little blonde Lett named Peters. Ho is a commissioner extraordinary against the counter-revolution. Peters lived in England for many years, and speaks Russian with an English ar«ont. He daily signs away the lives of scores of men and women he has never seen because they arc suspected of !>cing against the Bolshevik. I'etcrs has absolute power over the life and death of anybody in Russia. A neutral who has been before him many times pleading for the lives of innocent persons told mc that Peters has become a furious little animal. }Ie signs death warrants all day, sitting in the Kremlin. On one occasion he signed away the lives of 72 officers without glancing at the paper."—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 228, 24 September 1918, Page 5
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