RUSSIA

Evening Star, Issue 17824, 22 November 1921, Page 5

RUSSIA

REVOLT IN KARELIA. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright HELSINGFORS, November 19. Tho Karelian peasantry are defeating tho Bolsheviks, and have already captured four towns. They are now marching southward. Tho leaders offer to negotiate with the Soviet Government conditionally on a National Assembly being convoked and Karelia cleared of foreign troops.-A, and N.Z. Cable. [Karelia is an old name for the southeast part of Finland, which was annexed to Russia by Peter the Great in h'2,l. The Karelians properly so-called are. a branch of tho Finnic race, about 303,000 in number, who dwell in tho eastern parts of Finland and the adjoining provinces oi Russia from Archangel to Tver.] SIR PHILIP GIBBS'S IMPRESSIONS. APPEAL TO AN INDIFFERENT WORLD. LONDON, November 20. Sir Philip Gibbs concluded his narrative thus: Now the enow has stopped movement’of refugees. If Moscow is all they have seen, careless observers have seen no famine; but directly one conics to Samara, Saratorff, Simbirsk, or-Ryazan he finds •scores of thousands of deserted children, many wearing only ragged shirts, arid looking like monkeys with grey, wizened faces, watchful eyes, and clawlike hands. They are now being fed once a day by the British and American Relief Society. I write hoping to touch the heart of tho world, to rouse it from its damnable, deadly indifference to the fate of millions. Unless the Powers act quickly, leaving politics aside, hundreds of thousands must perish. Western Europe will then ho punished by a pestilence, ami it will ■jieservs it.—A. and N.Z. Cable.