RED RUSSIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 10085, 25 September 1918, Page 6

RED RUSSIA

A SANGUINARY DICTATOR ABSOLUTE POWER OVER LIFE AND DEATH. Australian unci N.Z CoMf* Association- , NEW YORK, Scptembcr-23., Mr Arno Do-ch Flourot, telegraphs from Stockholm... “The. . most awful I figure in the Russian-Rod Terror is a dapper little blond Lott named Peters, tie is tho Commissioner Extraordinary against the counter-revolution. Peters lived in England for. many years, and speaks Russian with an English accent. Ho daily Signs away lives of scores of men and women he has never seen, because they were suspected oi being against the Bolshevik. •■Peters has absolute power over the life and death ol anybody in Russia. A neutral who had been before him many tunes pleading''for "the UVe s oi innocent persons told me that Peters would become a furious little animal. He signs death warrants all day. Bitting in tho Kremlin on one occasion he signed away tho 'lives of seventytwo officers without glancing at the paper.” ALLIES TAKE CONTROL IN ,'J.Tm NORTH. Australian and" X.Z. Cable Association NEW YORK, September 23. Delayed press dispatches from Archangel say that the Allied diplomatic and military staffs have assumed temporary control following- on the attempted overthrow of the Tschaikovsky Government, and have established a protectorate region behind tho Allied front, which will'be relinqnished'when order is restored; Tschaikovsky and the members of his Cabinet are now under Allied-protection. Colonel T.. Chaplin, leader of the abortive coup d’etat, has resigned the post of Commander-in-Chief of Russian Armies. Order is being maintained in the "city IRASPUTIN KILLED TO SAVE RUSSIA. Australian and N.Z, Cable -.Association NEW YORK, September 23. Dr Stanislaus Lazevert, a Russian colonel, who, commanded the sanitary section of the Red Cross, has arrived to see President Wilson in connection with the situation in Siberia. Dr Lazevert asserts that he, wth four others—the Grand Duke Dmitri Paul,, a Captain of the Guard, M. Poun=chkschoatch, and a second Grand Duke (to be nameless) —killed Rasputin outside the Duke’s palace in order to save Russia from defeat. The report that Rasputin was lured into a house and then -shot was untrue. - ES-CZAR’S BODY ONCE MORE DISINTERRED. (Received September 24, 7.20 p.m.) . AMSTERDAM, September 23. The ex-Ozar s body has been exhumed from.the forest, where he was executed and ceremoniously conveyed to Ekaterinburg, where the corpse will lie in state at the cathedral prior to temporary interment. ATTEMPT ON TROTSKY’S LIFE. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received September 24. 7.20 p-m.) STOCKHOLM. September 23. An unsucessful attempt was made to shoot Trotsky at Kursk. ACTIVITY OF JAPANESE CAVALRY. - Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received September 24, IT p.m.) LONDON, September 23. Tho Press Bureau reports; The' Japanese Military Attache states that Japanese cavalry occupied Blagovistchensk and Alexeievsk on September 18th. Two thousand Austro-German prisoners surrendered nt Kokka, on tho right bank of the Amur. . , GERMANY'S RUSSIAN REPRESENTATIVE RETIRES. Reuter's Telegrams. (Received September 24. 11.50 p.m.) AMSTERDAM. September 24. Dr Helfferich’s resignation of the post of German representatives in Russia has been accepted. It is recalled that Dr Helfferich subseciuent to the assassination of Mirbach went to Moscow and fled from that city after a few days. FRESH SOVIET REPRISALS. Australian and - X./. r 'n Wr Association. (Received September 24... 11.50 p.m.) MOSCOW. September 24. Alleging fresh attempts to assassinate members of the Soviet, if is announced that fresh reprisals will bo carried out. MILITARY GROSS AWARDS TO NEW ZEALANDERS. LONDON, September 23. Military Crosses havo been awarded to the following New Zealanders: Rifle Brigade.—Captain 11. W. Kennedy, Lieutenants M. Macdonald, H. T. Marshall, J. A. Roy, M. A- Stedman. Infantry.—Captain J. R. Leys, Lieutenant N. H. Harper. Mounted Rifles.—Lieutenants El R. Black, P. O. Doherty,, a. S. Herbert. Camel Corps.—Lieutenant . A. Crawford. . . - Machine-gunners. , Lieutenant C. Harris. Chaplins.—M. Mnllineaux and C. B. Seton. ■ ITALIAN CAMPAIGN ENEMY’S LINES DEEPLY PENETRATED. A us. and N.Z. Cable Assn, and Eeutcr. LONDON, September 23. An Italian official report states: On the Asiagb Plateau the French, by a brilliant coup do main east of Siscmol, penetrated, deeply into the enemy’s lines. The British raided, tho lines north of Asiago and brought back prisoners.