EXTRA EDITION DISTRESS IN RUSSIA
GREAT FIRES ADD TO DISTRESS
SOVIET'S METHODS
JBY CABLE—PBESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received Aug. 15, £»5 a.m. LONDON, Aug. 13. According to reports from Moscow, •disastrous tires have added to Russia's • other troubles. Eighteen oil wells at -Baku are aflame, with no means of v Quelling the fires, and the inhabitants • are evacuating the town. Another fire -destroyed a'large portion-of the city • ofPinsk. . The All Russian Central Committee :at Moscow, instead of imprisoning con- ' victed social revolutionaries and Men- ■ shevikSj is sending them to cholera -stricken regions to work.. The evacuation committee has; commenced the' -systematic removal of 100,000 peasants j ifrqm the famine areas. Central Soviet are being sent to Poland, Latvia, and Lithuania. A Times message from London states ■ that Miss Florence Turner, the cinema star, who is visiting London, was found -bound and gagged at Hampstead. She -was robbed of £1000 * in jewels and vinoney. .
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 15 August 1921, Page 7
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151EXTRA EDITION DISTRESS IN RUSSIA Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 15 August 1921, Page 7
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