Russia

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 43, 16 September 1918, Page 5

Russia

AMERICANS AT ARCHANCEL. FRENCH GENERAL IN COMMAND, Press Association—Copyright Austrtu lian and N.Z. Cable Association. \ViJ>.]:i;-.;rtn:i, September 12. The \Ya,r Depart nient liiis announced tiial Ainei ican troop* from Kranco have landed at Archangel. The size o!' Mi.- Force his not been disclosed. .\iii.i 'i■•('■e , !"!'iil .i;iniii. of the French \riiiy, has arrived from France. Fie : going to Siberia to take command el the (V.echo-Sii vak arm. Officials say that the (V.echn-Sfovaks will continue operations all through the winIKE BOLSHEVIKS. i LEADERS READY FOR FLICHT. Press Association—Copyright, Au*<t.r>> lian und N Z. Habl* Ap«fwiaHnr London, September If. Latest official cables received in London confirm the impression that. ih,. Bolshevik Government is breaking up. It has been known for a month thai Lenin and Trotsky have everything prepared for flight to Switzerland.

The Committor of Public fnformai ion in tho Cnited States has published deeuments proving that Lenin, Trotsky, and their associates arc German agents; that the Genua 11 staff arranged the Bolshevik revolution, which was financed by the German Imperial Bank and others; that German army officers were secretly received by the Bolshoviki and allowed to spy on the Allied Embassies.

.Mr Doseli Fleiirot, writing from Stockholm, says that the United States Consul, -Mr Poole, was arrested nl Moscow and accused of implication in a plot to bribe Lettish troops to abandon the Bolsheviks. This is absurd, for long before I left Russia the Letts told nie they were unwilling to light against the Allies, because they were against the Bolsheviks, and would help them to regain the Fatherland from Germany. There iias been the closest co-operation r.t Moscow between the Allied and American officials, and the Bolsheviks are futilely trying to break the solidarity of the Allies by causing illfeeling between them.

THE CZECHO SLOVAKS. SENSATION IN AUSTRIA-HUN-GARY. "refts Association—Cor" 'glit, Anntri* lian and N.Z. Cable Association New York, September 13. The Xew York Times' Washington correspondent states that diplomaticadvices say that all the clergy in the Bohemian dioceses have unanimously approved the declaration of the Czech deputies favoring the establishment of a united, independent Czechoslovak nation. This action has caused a sensation in Austria-Hun-gary. JAPANESE CAPTURES. SUCCESS AT KHABAROVSK. Press Assn.—Copyright.—Australian and N 5?. Cable Assn, and Reuter. London, September 13. ' ; A Japanese communique from : Tokio stales: The captures at Khabarovsk include- lot) prisoners, some German officers, 17 river gunboats, and 12(1 guns. BOLSHEVIK ATROCITIES. Press Assn.—Copyright.—Australia nnd N.Z. Cable Assn. and Renter. Copenhagen, September 14. General Bvusiloff was shot at Moscow, outside Tugan prison. Tchitsherin denies the murder of the Tsarit/n and her daughters. A message received, at Amsterdam! reports that the Bolsheviks have ar-1 rested Co::.-nil [vurop.ttkin. THE !!EW COMMAND. Press Association—Copyright. Published in "Tho Times." 'Received <),10 a.m.') Harbin. September l.">. Deitrieh voluntarily resigned and handed over the command Lo Colonel Carda, thinking that the Czech leader would be more likely lo be in accord with the Czech national sentiment. FUGITIVES' SOMBRE STORIES. AWFUL STATE OF PETROCRAO. HORRIBLE HUN BRUTALITY. Press Association—v;npyngi>t Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 9.•1t) a.m.) London. September 10. fugitives living in London tell sombre- stories of the horrors of Russia, I fully confirming the constant butcheries, burnings, and shootings. Petro-

grad Is starving like a beleaguered I garrison; bands are marauding the peasants, and robbers holding the roads outside. A curious German-Bolshevik alliance exists within the. city, holding together for mutual protection against the growing hatred by all classes of the Bolsheviks who are acting under German orders. German officers are commanding the troops, and generally directing the outrages and arrests. They are conducting daily hunt-, for Allied officers and partisans, whose life consists of hairbreadth escapes, being compelled to change their sleeping apartments nightly and adopt disguises. The Germans were responsible for the recent arrest of seven thousand Russian officers. Horrible brutality was inflicted on the officers. Many are legless or armless, are herded in small dungeons without food or drink. There is no sanitation, and hundreds are tlying from dysentery and starvation. Kuropatkin was arrested on a charge of participation in a British conspiracy against the Bolsheviks

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