UNHAPPY RUSSIA

Evening Star, Issue 18259, 26 April 1923, Page 10

UNHAPPY RUSSIA

EFFECTS OF BOLSHEVIK RULE. THE PEOPLE’S SUFFERINGS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, LONDON, April 21. The veil of mystery surrounding Die great, Russian cities under Bolshevik rule Kao been lifted at Odessa, savs the London ‘Daily Mail.’ A prominent official, who has returned to Constantinople from a visit there, describes the city as in an evil plight. The harbors are lined with desolate, wrecked villas. The water is laid on for only one hour daily. The people aro shabby, wretched, and depressed. Industry is at a standstill, and food is so dear that many are dying of starvation. The peasants’ oxen have been commandeered, and consequently (hey aro able to supply only their own needs. They turn the soil with their sons harnessed to the plough. Soldiers to the number of 130,000, who aro billeted in Odessa, aro the host fed people in the city. The “Choka” (secret police) holds executions regularly on Fridays. The Soviet political department announces 212 executions at Petrograd. TERRORIST METHODS, MINISTERS IN REVOLT. RIGA, April 22. Reports from Moscow state that MM. Tchitcherin, Kras,sin, and Krcstiusty have made ■representations to the Government against the renewed terrorist methods as undermining foreign confidences. M. Krassin threatens to resign if this policy is continued. —A. and N.Z. Cable. THE TORTURE CHAMBER. HORRIBLE, IF TRUE. LONDON, April 24. * The Times’s ’ Riga correspondent reported from Moscow that torture is being used to induce the Patriarch Tikhon to confess the offences which he never committed, to revoke anathema, and to declare that he considers the Bolshevik revolution justified.—‘ Times.’ COMMUNIST CONGRESS. RIGA, April 22. The Communist Congress at Moscow adopted a resolution in favor of strengthening the Red army and supporting nil parties abroad who aro opposing the capitalistic Governments. It also advocated the continuance of the Government’s foreign trade monopoly and an_ increased export on corn. —A. and N.Z. Cable. AGREEMENT WITH DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, April 2-3. A Danish-Rnssian agreement signed at Moscow establishes definite de facto relations. It allows mutual representation by resident delegations and also Danish trading in Russia, with security against the obligation to surrender property without fulTcompensation. The question of citizens’ claims for compensation or restitution was discussed, but no agreement was reached. —A. and N.Z, Cable.