RUSSIA'S PROBLEMS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17423, 18 September 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA'S PROBLEMS

A FRENZY OF TERRORISM. ASSASSINATION A REGULAR POLICY. EXTERMINATING THE BOURGEOISIE. Tlio Times. STOCKHOLM, September 16. ~ Terroism in Russia has reached a stage f of absolute frenzy. The correspondent of one Stockholm newspaper likens the bloodj thirsty Soviets' rutliiessness to rabies. i Daily the spectacle is witnessed of numerI ous corpses floating down the Neva mouths r and being washed towards Kronstadt and i swept ashore. Another ghastly sight was _ that of six priests roped together and flung into the river, and the tide later j threw their bodies uu on the beach. Tumbrils can be heard rolling all nightthrough the < streets of Petrograd laden with corpses from the prison courtyards. 4 Priests and officers are the chief victims, g but others, principally of the hated bourgeoisie class, are snot on the least suspicion on anti-Bolshevist tendencies,; Over 100 engineers and foremen at the Putiloff works were murdered because they displeased the manager. Assassination became the regular policy when the executive apointed Lenin. Trotsky, and Sinobleff to protect tottering Bolshevism. These men were assisted by " Uritskv, Minister of the Interior, who is a nicknamed " the Bolshevist Marat." The r result of Uritsky's proclamation demandt ing the shooting of everyone convicted of anti-Bolshevist sentiments was that the Red Guards and the rabble carried out his orders with savage alertness. A young student named Ranneyeishes acted as Uritsky's " Charlotte Corday." Fiftytwo victims were listed at first, but after1. wards they became so numerous that no further lists were published. The murders or imprisoning of hostages greatly increased after Uritsky's death. Thus a situation o£ extreme tension r and peril has been created, and a revolt may break out at any moment, which even supporters of the Soviet dread. The city is paraded bv artillery in all directions, and machine guns are posted on 0 every corner. Highly-paid Red Guards ._ and Chinese serve as a bodyguard to •_ surround every commissioner's residence ir and office. SOME BOLSHEVIST DOCUMENTS. COMPLETE PROOF OF TREACHERY. LEADERS IN GERMAN PAY. 5 * Au«lndian utd N.Z. Cable Association. NEW YORK, September 16. ~ Bolshevist documents were obtained by Mr Edgar Sisson, the Committee of Public ,r Information's special representative at Furria (?) in the winter of 1917-18, which further prove that German army men were used by the Bolshevists as directors of their foreign, military, and ' domestic affairs. One of the documents (which is a photograph of the original) is a report to the Bolshevist leaders by their subordinates, saying that an order oil the German 1mII perial Bank, allowing money to comrades h Lenin, Trotsky, and others for peace proo paganda in Russia, had been removed from e the archives of the Russian Ministry of Justice in order to conceal the transy action. At the same time certain bocks in a Stockholm bank were "audited," in orr'ev conceal a payment of money to Lenin, Trotsky, and others, by order of the Imperial Bank. Another document shows that certain incriminating German circulars, proving that Germany was preparing for war in June, 1914, were'returned to the German authorities with the consent of the 801, , shevist leaders. n Another of the Bolshevist documents ° is an order from the German General Staff to the High Sea Fleet in November, 1914, ordering fhe " mobilisation of all destructive agents and observers" in the United States, and recommending the use of " anarchists and escaped crimiivils to cause explosions, delays, en broil menis, and strikes." • fc DEVELOPMENT OF- SIBERIA. '• RUSSO-JAPANESE ORGANISATION. Renter's Telegrams. TOKIO, September 16. « (Received Sept. 13, at 1.55 a.m.l I The organisation of a Riisso-Jajvtneae j economic corporation for the commercial j r and industrial development of Siberia has i J been practically completed, with a capital j of between JO and 20 million jonblea. '