THE RUSSIAN SITUATION.
“UNSPEAKABLE CHAOS.”
WHOLESALE SLAUGHTER OF CIVILIANS.
LONDON, Feb. 20.
Delayed messages from Petrograd reflect unspeakable chaos owing to the unbridled license of hordes of Red Guards, wholesale robberies and confiscations.
Owners of more than three horses, or four sheep, or two pigs, are heavily taxed, 'i'he Soviets and Peasants’ Committee get 25 per cent, of the proceeds.
A perfect saturnalia of murder, outrage, and robbery continues. As the result of the simplification of divorce proceedings there have been 38,000 applications for divorce in three months.
The Bolsheviki are despatching numerous Cossack battalions to the Don to assist the workers against Kaledin.
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Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 30, Issue 16, 26 February 1918, Page 3
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104THE RUSSIAN SITUATION. Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 30, Issue 16, 26 February 1918, Page 3
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