TRAGEDY OF RUSSIA
STARVING PEASANTS
A TRAIL OF DESOLATION.
TOWN OF TAMBOFF DEVASTATED
Frees Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.
LONDON, July 2b. (Received July 28, at 8.20 p.m.) 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 Tamboff, 300 miles southeast of Moscow, overwhelming the. Red Army, which was sent to stop them. The peasants have killed and eaten the horses of the Bolshevist cavalry, Fire Brigades, and municipal services. Red troops refused to shoot. After hunger demonstrations and strikes, 20,618 women were shot in Petrograd. The Daily Express’s Berlin correspondent states that the Soviets have proclaimed a state of siege in Petrograd and Moscow.
A Russian paper in Berlin reports that General Trotsky has been arrested.—A. and N. Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18310, 29 July 1921, Page 5
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