MARCH ON MOSCOW
BY STARVING PEASANTS RED ARMY OVERWHELMED AT TAMBOFF. TROTSKY ARRESTED. Bv Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Oiblo Association. (Received July 2S, 5.20 p.m.) LONDON, July 28. The “Morning Post's” correspondent reports that hordes of starving Russian peasants are marching on Moscow, destroying everything en route. They entirely devastated the town of Tamhoff, 300 miles south-east of Moscow, overwhelming the Red army sent to stop them. Peasants have killed and eaten the horses of the Bolshevik cavalry, fir© brigades, and municipal services. The Red troops refused to shoot. After hunger demonstrations and strikes 20,618 women were shot in rogradThe “Daily Express” Berlin correspondent states that the Soviets proclaimed a. state of siege in Petrograd and Moscow. Tlio Russian paper in Berlin reports that Trotsky has been arrested.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10965, 29 July 1921, Page 5
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