BOLSHEVIK MASSACRE

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 201, 25 August 1919, Page 5

BOLSHEVIK MASSACRE

600 PERSIANS KILLED. MORE ARMENIAN HORRORS. (Received 9.50 a.m.) LONDON, August 24. Advices have been received that when the Bolsheviks occupied Armaviv, in Anm-nia. they hauled down the flag of the Persian Consulate, shot down the Consul though he was wearing an official uniform, mutilated his body, and looted the buildings, taking much valuable proper:. '-' '-.-•-.• also turned machine guns on : ■ " <■ n Mohammedans and 21 l !:'■•-- •'.. > were sheltering in the CV-. :-.-... i, iiing and wounding them en !:>;. -.-. --• Reuter. | """IRES THOUSAND FACTORY j HANDS SHOT. OMSK, Aurrust 21. j It is reported that Bolsheviks shot three thousand factory hands in Ekaterinburg, for refusing to rise against Kolt- j <mak.— (United Service.) 3ATTLESHXPS SUNK. j LONDON, August 22. A Bolshevik wireless messige denies that two battleships were sunk at Kronstadfc The Pervozvanni received slight damage, and can he repaired in a few days.— (A. and N.Z. Cable,) HOME RULE FOR SCOTLAND. DELEGATE IN AMERICA. (Reecived 9.45 a.m.) WASHINGTON, August 24. Mr. (roorgo Bruce (American representative of the Scottish National Committee I ha-s asked Senator Lodge that he be allowed to present .Scoland's case for self-determination before . the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. — (A. and N.Z. Cable. I