BOLSHEVIK STRENGTH.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 53, 3 March 1919, Page 5

BOLSHEVIK STRENGTH.

ARMY OF A MILLION. WELL FED AND OFFICERED. NEW YORK, March 2. An American correspondent in Paris interviewed Dr. Cresson, director of the French medical organisations in Russia, who said that though millions of Russians were actually starving, the Bolshevik arm}' had grown from a feeble body to more than 1,000.000 well fed and equipped mm, officered by the best soldiers of the old regime. It had German drill masters. The Bolshevik regime was able to care for the army by stripping the country of all available "supplies — (A. and N.Z. Cable.) A Helsingfors telegram reports that 50 of the leaders, including Kanokeff and Marie Spiridonova, have been arrested in connection with a plot, hatched by the revolutionaries who seceded from the Bolsheviks, supported by many sailors, to seize Lenin and others of the Bolshevik chiefs assembled in Moscow. The plotters secured admittance to the Kremlin while the Government Was sitting, but their plans failed.—"Times.") Dispatches from Archangel say that | strong counter-attacks by the Bolsheviks against the newly-gained Allied positions on the Murman front failed. Heavy losses were inflicted on the Bolsheviks. ■WHOLESALE MURDER. AMSTERDAM, March 2. Professor Rogoyhki. of Cracow University, states that the Germans at Brans near Bielsk, accused the residents of murdering a German soldier who had really committed suicide, and shot them right and left. They entered a shop and ahot 12 people.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)