STRIKES IN RUSSIA.
A COUNTER-REVOLUTION. (Received 2..-.0 p.m.) LONDON, August 12. Benin has ordered the Minister of Railways to prepare an understanding with the Menshevists. and has issued i) proclamation reproving workmen for continuously demanding higher wages. Ihe (iovernment recently sought to suppress strikes and executed two leaders, nevertheless the strikes spread, the per.sanls obstinately refusing to send grain to towns. It is reported that Yaliatis. former Bolshevist commander-in-chief, and his chief of statl", have been arrested fir organising a counter-revolution.—(A. and N-. Cable.) BRITISH SOVIET PLOT. APPEALS FROM LENIN. (Received 2.53 p.m.) LONDON", August 12. The ivvolutionary pamphlets seized at Acton included appeals to workers signed by Lenin and Trotsky, urging the overthrow of the Constitutional (lovernment and appealing t.i workers to follow the example of their comrades in Bussia, Hungar-. aid M-Dingfors.-IA. and N.Z. Cable. I
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 191, 13 August 1919, Page 8
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