Bloodstained Bolshevism

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 231, 12 September 1922, Page 5

Bloodstained Bolshevism

HOW COMMUNISM SURVIVES. SLAUGHTER OF OPPONENTS. EXECUTIONS TOTAL NEARLY TWO MILLIONS. [By Cable.—Press Association^—Copyright.] London Sept. 10. Advices from Moscow’ snow, according to the Bolsheviks’ own figures, that the executions by the official anti-revolutionary organisation since December, 1917, totalled close upon I,7so.ooo.—(Recter.)

CHILDREN'S CONGRESS. CORRUPTION OF YOUTH. London, Sept. 11. The “Morning Post’s” Helsingfors correspondent says: “It is reported from Kharkoff that the latest Bolshevik crime is the convocation by the Government of Podolia of a ten-year-old children’s congress, the president being a little girl of eleven. The paper ‘Kommunist’ declares that tlie congress is discussing quite a number of important questions,’ but the congress is part of the Bolshevik propaganda for the corruption of youth.— (A. ad N.Z.)

DEVELOPMENT OF SIBERIA. OPERATIONS OF RUSSO-ASIATIC COMPANY. A FIFTY-SIX MILLION DEAL. Berlin, Sept. 10. The sum of £56,000,000 is involved in the deal between Mr. Leslie Urquhart, on behalf of the Russo-Asiatic Company, and M. Krassin, on behalf of the Soviet Government.—(A. and N.Z.) [Yesterday a cable stated: An agreemen was signed here to-dav by Mr. Leslie Urquhart, on behalf of the Russo-Asiatic Consolidated Company, and M. Krassin, on behalf of the Soviet Government, whereby the former obtains a 99 years’ lease of property in the Urals, Siberia, which the company previously owned or leased. The company secures the right to make its own arrangements with workmen on the usual British trade union terms, and receives compensation partly in bonds for damage done to the properties through destruction or nationalisation.]