THE RUSSIAN CHAOS
BOLSHEVIK RULE DOOMED
MEANWHILE ANARCHY
FLOURISHES.
(PUBLISHED IN THE TIMES.)
(Eeceived August 16, 2.30 p.m.)
LONDON, 15th August.
The Stockholm correspondent of The Times states that armed bands of peasants arc inarching on. Petrograd, clamouring for food. The Soviet Government has issued a proclamation declaring that the Republic is endangered. The Soviet authority is failing throughout Russia, and armed marauding peasant bands are again gaining the upper hand in many districts. Bolshevikism is doomed, but it is impossible to forecast the form in which government is likely to emerge from the chaos. Russian Karelia (southeast Finland) is in a state of complete starvation, and robbery, and the whole population is armed in w\ldefence.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 41, 16 August 1918, Page 8
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