RUSSIA'S PROBLEMS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17482, 26 November 1918, Page 4

RUSSIA'S PROBLEMS

BOLSHEVIST EXCESSES.

FEARS OF COUNTER-REVOLUTION.

AMSTERDAM, November 23. Tlie Bolshevists have been guilty of terrible excesses jin Petrograd during the last few days. luve hundred ex-officers havo been murdered. Arrested foreigners are being employed as street cleaners. The 14 members of the Petrograd Soviet live in hourly fear of a counter-revolution. Hie crmser Aurora is lying at the mouth of the Neva with steam up, ready to go to Copenhagen at the shortest notice. If the 14 Soviet members are denied a landing there the voyage will be continued to Brazil.—A. and N.Z. Cable

ALL-RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT.

ITS PROSPECTS NOT KNOWN.

COPENHAGEN, November 23. What is called tho All-Russian Government has been formed at Ekateriondar (Northern Causasia). It is composed of members of the General Staff of the old volunteer army, with M. Ludonoff as Minister of Foreign Affairs, with a view to re-establishing a united Russia on federative principles, and keeping the Bolshevists out of the Ukraine. The strength and prospects of the new Government aro unknown. —Renter.

BREST-LITOVSK TREATY DE-

NOUNCED.

BOLSHEVISTS ASK FOR NEW ONE.

AMSTERDAM, November 23. The Bolshevist Government states that Russia has declared the Brest-Litovsk treaty null and void, and has requested the German Government to conclude newpeace proposals for all countries in Eastern, and Central Europe on the basis of Bolshevist principles. Germany rejected the proposal, and stated that the Brest-Litovsk treaty must be dealt with at the General Peace Conference.

The German Government declined tho Russian proposal to send grain to Germany.—A. and N.Z. Cable.

LTVONIAN REPUBLIC. LONDON, November 23. _A republic has been proclaimed in Livonia.—A. and N.Z. Cable.

RUSSIA'S FEARFUL CONDITION.

UNCIYELTSED ELEIMENTS IN POWER.

OUTSIDE ASSISTANCE NECESSARY.

LONDON, November 24. (Received Nov. 25, at 7.30 p.m.) The awful plight of Russia under Bolshevist rule_ is emphasised in the course of an interview with a distinguished Russian, who has just escaped from Petrograd. He says that Russia is now in such a condition that no one element in her is sufficiently powerful to work her regeneration. She must have help from outside. The uncivilised elements are in complete control. Soldiers who beat back the Germans with sticks are now in th« Red Guards, because there alone can they find money and food. Officers join the Bolshevist army, because they have to choose between that and being shot.— Reuter.