RUSSIA.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 4 March 1919, Page 8

RUSSIA.

REIGN OF TERROR CONTINUES.

DESPERATE SITUATION

GERMAN TROOPS REPORTED AT LIBAU. I BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT ] STOCKHOLM, March. 2. Travellers from Petrograd state that iiie situation is desperate, Human beings, thin as laths, wander about the streets, but their swollen faces are a sign of approaching starvationLenin has been imprisoned for three days for a speech with reconciliatory tendency. The Bolsheviks bombarded Narva .with 5000 sheik, killing many people and emptying the town. The Bolsheviks committed awful outrages at Dorpat. They ordered a large aumber of the leading citizens into a cellar, forced them to strip naked, and then shot every one with dumdum bullets. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Association. STOCKHOLM, Feb. 27. A decree by the People's Commissarieß announces that owing to the inability of the Soviet Republic to carry on certain industrial enterprises, concessions will be granted to foreigners, especially with a view to the construction of the great northern railway and the development of vast stretches of Russian forest land.—Reuter. PARIS, March 1. Tie Echo de Paris publishes a Stockholm message, under reserve, that three German transports landed eight thousand troops under Yon der Golts at Lifcau, with the intention of reoceupying Jtiga.