PLOT AGAINST SOVIET.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17881, 8 September 1921, Page 5

PLOT AGAINST SOVIET.

RENEWAL 01 THE TERROR.

61 EXECUTED IN PETROGRAD.

ALLEGED AMERICAN AID. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. A. and N.Z.-Beuter. LONDON, Sept 6.

According to advices from Helsingfors another wave of terror is sweeping Petrograd. The Soviet newspaper Pravda publishes a list of the names of 61 persons shot, following a recent conspiracy against the Soviet regime. The victims include a number of eminent artists, scientists, and men of letters, also officers, students, sailors, and several women. Of 800 alleged conspirators, 80 per cent, were Soviet officers.

According to advices from Moscow, Bolshevik newspapers assert that American agents participated in the revolutionary plot recently discovered in Petrograd. Captain Kilpatrick, of the American Red Cross, has arrived in Paris after nine months' detention in prisons in Russia. He says that in Moscow alone between 150,000 and 200,000 prisoners of 30 nationalities are suffering untold misery.

RELIEF OF THE FAMINE.

£10,000,000 CREDIT SOUGHT.

FOREIGN SUPERVISION ALLOWED. A. and N.Z.—Reuter. LONDON, Sept. 6. Under an agreement arrived at between Or F. Nansen, head of the international Red Cross organisation for relief of the Russian famine, and the Russian Soviet Government, the latter requests Dr. Nansen to ask the Governments of Europe in its name for credits totalling £10,000,000. The Soviet Government declares that it is ready to assume the obligations demanded of it by the Governments to provide the credits. The distribution of the help will be carried out through an international executive for Russian help in Moscow, assisted by a limited number of representatives of the leading Governments. It is reported in Paris that Red so'diery who were recently concentrated at Yamburg, south-west of Petrograd, seized the first shipment of American food for relief of the famine when en route from Riga to Moscow.