RUSSIAN RESTORATION

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 121, 16 February 1920, Page 7

RUSSIAN RESTORATION

« NEW SOVIET DECREE LABOUR BOOKLET AS PASSPORT (Roc. February 15, 5.5 p.m.) London, February 14. A Moscow wireless message states that a decree has been issued which compels all persons over 1G years of .age to carry a labour booklet, which serves as a passport and ensures universal productive work. Citizens unable to produce a booklet are put to manual_ labour, Lenin, in appealing for- economic restoration, declared that, tile twofold victory—the Bed Army's successes and the raising of the blockade—was "due solely to tho sympathy the Soviet inspires in the workmen of hostiio countries. Our nropaganda has deprived the Entente of tho possibility of using their armies."—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. THE KOLCHAK SUMMARILY SHOT IN PRISON. (Roc. February 15, 5.5 p.m.) London, February 13. Definite news has been received concerning the shooting of Kalchak and his Prime Minister. They, with the members of their staff, were imprisoned at Irkutsk. Ivolchalc and I lie Prime Minister on the morning of February 7 were charged with conducting a counterBolshevik revolution and both were summarily shot in tlio prison yard.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. japaneselTsibema GOVERNMENT HESITATION. Tokio, February 11. The Government's hcsitnncy on the question of continuance of intervention or withdrawal from Siberia is -producing confusion and. cross-currents of opinion. Tho "Asahi," among other journals advocating withdrawal, declares that the Red regime to which the Americans are giving encouragement, is fast spreading and securing supremacy in Siberia. Japan must lose the leadership, of the East if she further hesitates, out of consideration for other countries, to declare her policy. The newspaper "Kokumin" publishes an article, written by the Government Publicity Commissioner, advocating evacuation, and contending that Bolshevism cannot bo checked by military measures. The community in Vladivostok regards tho prospect _ with alarm, and has petitioned the Diet to continue Japanese protection.—"Times.