BOLSHEVIKS' APPROACHING END

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 42, 17 August 1918, Page 7

BOLSHEVIKS' APPROACHING END

TERROR RIFE IN RUSSIA,

LONDON, 15th August. The Daily Chronicle's Stockholm correspondent states that a diplomat from Petrograd who^was interviewed says the ■population is unnerved by rumours, and awaits the future with terror, because the Bolsheviks, seeing they are neiuing the end of their reign, may commit atrocities surpassing those of any previous rulers. The diplomat says that Lenin, addressing the last meeting of the Executive, declared : 'We may be compelled to leave, but we shall close the door behind us with such force that they will long remember us." The Bolsheviks feel that they are caught between two fires. They fear the German occupation of Petrograd, also the Entente push at Murman. The Bolsheviks have suppressed all the Petrogvad and Moscow newspapers except their own. They have placarded the streets, threatening the direst penalties to anyone spreading disquietening rumours. Conversation in public is carried on mostly in whispers/ owing to the feai' of espionage. Telegraphic communication with the Entente countries has ceased.

The Entente proclamation referring to Murman and Vladivostok is not' yet known. A state of siege has been proclaimed over a vast area, but nothing can prevent the approaching Bolshevik catastrophe.