PEASANTS MARCHING ON MOSCOW

Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 23, 29 July 1921, Page 7

PEASANTS MARCHING ON MOSCOW

LENIN'S PROPOSAL TO OBTAIN

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(Received July 28, 9 a.m.)

COPENHAGEN, 28th July.

The Politiken states that reports from Moscow show that, in order to obtain foreign help, Lenin proposes to recognise the Russian pnblic debt, which the Bolsheviks repudiated when assumed power, but not to commence payment hi interest before 1925. A conference of Soviet delegates and foreign representatives will be convened to fix the amount of the debt, and arrange for the immediate resumption of cooI'osoic relations between Russia, and the European States.

LONDON, 28th July.

The Morning Post's correspondent reports that hordes of starving Russian peasants are marching on Moscow, destroying everything on route. They have entirely devastated the town of Tamboff, 300 miles south-east of Moscow, overwhelming a Red army sent to stop them. Tho peasants have killed and' eaten the horses of the Bolshevik cavalry, the""nre brigades, and municipal services. Red troops refused to shoot. After hunger demonstrations and strikes, thousands of women were shot in Petrograd. * Tho Daily Express's correspondent at Berlin states that the Soviets have proclaimed a state of siege in Petrograd and Moscow. A Russian paper in Berlin re- .. ports that Trotsky has been arrested.