BRITISH IN RUSSIA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16950, 9 September 1918, Page 6

BRITISH IN RUSSIA.

GRAVE FEARS FOR SAFETY.

BOLSHEVIK HOSTILITY.

ARRESTS IN PETROGRAD.

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed., 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 7.

The Daily Express states that grave news of the position of British residents in Russia, received yesterday, caused the authorities great anxiety. The entire colony in Petrograd is wider arrest, while the Bolsheviks in Moscow are acting with frenzied hostility towards tho British and French. Details are lacking, but enough is known to give rise to very grave fears. Mr. J. A. R Rinsomo, the wellknown pro-Bolshevik correspondent of the Daily News, writing from Petrograd, states that the Moscow Pravda gives details of the search of the British Embassy which resulted in tho death of Captain Cromie and of three searchers. The Pravda asserts that 40 people wero arrested at the Embassy, including Prince Shakov6koi, an extreme counter-revolu-tionary. Mr. Ransomo says tho presence of the Prince was quito enough to justify the Soviet's suspicions that some sort of dealings were going on with the anti-Soviet parties. It is evident the Soviet Secret Service had something to go on. Unless carefully handled by both sides this tragic affair may have a terrible result in mutual reprisals.

Mr. Pansome pays a tribute to Captain Cromie as one of the most heroic and straightost-thinking men ho had ever met.