NORTHERN RUSSIA.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14986, 13 August 1919, Page 3

NORTHERN RUSSIA.

PROTEST AGAINST ABANDONMENT. STIRRING APPEAL TO ALLIES. .Elec. Tel. Copyright— United Press Ast.n. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association) (Received August 13, 10.10 a.m.) LONDON, August 11. Archangel advises that a moving appeal has been issued to the Western democracies by the President of the Zemstvos of ' Northern Russia against the withdrawal of troops, thus leaving the population at th© mercy of the Bolshevists. The appeal recalls .the crimes of the Bolshevists; their dispersal of the Constituent Assembly, and the wholesale murderß of those demonstrating m favor >f the Assembly signing the BrestLitovsk treaty; the dissolution of the workers and peasants' organisations ; iheir shooting of everybody who criti 3ised them, and the arrest and expu! sioni of non-Bolshevik Socialists. "Despite the terrorism, however, the peasants m various parts of Russia rose to fight for the Constituent Assembly. Now they heard the Allies were leaving Russia. This moral and material blow will make the struggle against Bolshevism beyond our strength." "We shall not give up the fight, but we ask you to remember that help not only callß forth gratitude but brings certain responsibilities to the helper. "Consider those thousands of. executions of old men and,, women, those sufferings of hunger, the absence of elementary justice and freedom which undoubtedly will result from the departure of the Allies. , We ask, we demand, that Western democracies think what this blow will mean. We appeal to those feelings of human justice which never can die m the hearts of free democracies."