TROTSKY DICTATOR IN RUSSIA

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 90, 10 January 1919, Page 5

TROTSKY DICTATOR IN RUSSIA

LENIN ARRESTED . LATEST REPORTS ON THE SITUATION By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright London, January 8. It is reported from Moscow that Trotsky has assumed the Dictatorship of Russia, after arresting Lenin.—Aus.-N.Z.' Cable A6sn. REPORTS OF JHTRED REGIME BOLSHEVIK TYRANNY. Helsingfors, January 7. Mem'bers of the Danish Legation, from Petrograd, state that British civil ami military officials, who are kept imprisoned in Moscow, are being tyranically treated. The real Dictator of Petrograd is a woman,aged 22, named Jacobleva, the chief of the Anti-counter Rcvolutionary Committee. Her crueltj surpasses, all existing legends. Many people die of starvation in the streets daily. The population has sunk to 800,000. Threequarters of the 6hops are closed; the tramway service is suspended, and electric light mayi only be used for two hours a day. The Bed Guards in the Petrograd district number 50,000.— Eeuter. THE AMAZING BOLSHEVIK HOW HE CONSCRIPTS PUBLIC OPINION. (Rec. January 9,. 7.30 p.m.) Amsterdam, January 8. Among the" amazing doings of the Russian Bolsheviki is the action of the Petrograd Soviet in transforming twenty-one churches into picture palaces for propaganda purposes. One hundred and fifty thousand prisoners had arrived from Germany. Those hostile to Bolshevism were forced to attend 'lectures on the principles of Soviet rule.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. RUSSIAN COMMITTEE IN LONDON TO WATCH. (Rec. January 9, 8.30 p.'m.) London, January 8. 'i A Central Committee, composed of (ending Russians, has been' formed to watch Russian interests at the ' Peace Conference. Princo Lvoff is president, and is supported by the Ambassadors at London, Paris, Rome, and Madrid. M. Snzanoff is expected shortly to join tho committee, as representing the Governments sitting south of the Caucasus, and Kolchak's Government at Omsk. Tho well-kuown revolutionary but anti-Bol-shevik, Tchailowski, head of the Archangel Government, lias also been invited to join tho committee. Well-informed quarters regard the committee as a coalition which will seek to arrive at a common programme for submission to tho Allies for their decision.—Reuter. deadlFaliye? MYSTERY OF THE EX-TSAR. London, January 8. The "Morning Post's" Archangel correspondent relates a sensational story that the Tsar is not dead. The Grand Duko Cyril, he says, slates that he had a letter in November from the Princess Tatiana, the Tsar's daughter, stating that the Emperor, the Empress, and 'their daughters' are nil alive.. The Bolshevik'officer who was ordered to carry out the deathnselitenceitold the Emperor: "It is a matter of indifference to mo who I shoot. I have only to produce tho corpses.', A bullet in tho head will make the identification of the viotims impossible." Count 1\ offered to sacrifice himself. Tho Tsar protested, but the Count overruled him, and' the Tsar escaped. His whereabouts is unknown.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Asm.