BOLSHEVIK BLOOD LUST.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16966, 27 September 1918, Page 5

BOLSHEVIK BLOOD LUST.

INCITING TERRORISM. APPALLING WINTER PROSPECT. LONDON, Sept. 16. The Amsterdam correspondent of tie Times states'that Lenin has announced that the Soviet Government's security depends upon securing an alliance with some imperialistic power. Shootings continue at Moscow, but on a somewhat reduced scale. The hostages include many women and children. Numerous families/ been expelled, and their furniture find belongings divided amongst the proletariat. The International Socialist Party, which was hitherto friendly to the Bolsheviks, has protested against the reign of terror. Neutral Consuls have received vague promises in response to protests. The Stockholm correspondent of the Times says that the appalling prospect of wholesale mortality in famine-stricken Russia during the coming winter absorbs the attention of the people to the exclusion of everything else. The majority do not respond to the incitements to terrorism made by the Bolsheviks, who are daily issuing appeals in prose and verse for the savage suppression of the bourgcoise, the Entente, and other antiBolshevik forces. For instance, they urged the people to '.urn their hearts to steel and drown their opponents by thousands in their own blood. Other proclamations call for a bullet in the heart of every enemy of the people. Travellers from Pctrograd say thai, only the Bolshevik-paid officials and followers are infected with the blood-lust. Others regard the attack on Lenin with indifference, and say that it means the writing on the wall for the Leninites.