SOVIET RULE.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume VI, Issue 1577, 4 March 1919, Page 5

SOVIET RULE.

HOW RUSSIA FARES. BOLSHEVIK ATROCITIES. (A. & N.Z.) STOCKHOLM, March 2. Travellers from Petrograd state that the situation is desperate. Human beings as thin as laths wander about the streets, but their swollen faces are a sign of approaching death from starvation. Lenin has been imprisoned for three days for a speech with a reconciliatory tendency. The Bolsheviks bombarded Narva with 5000 shells, killing many people and emptying the town. They committed awful outrages at Dorpat. They ordered a large number of leading citizens into a cellar and forced them to strip. They then sbot every one with dumdum bullets.

CHINESE AFFECTED. ADOPT EXTREMIST IDEAS. (Router) PETROGRAD, Feh. 27. Representatives of the Chinese workmen's organisations in Russia have formed an association consisting of 60,000 members, with the object of conducting revolutionary propaganda. They have issued an appeal to the Chinese people to fight the Government in Northern China and establish Soviets throughout the Empire. CONFESSION OF WEAKNESS. FOREIGN CAPITAL WANTED. (Hcuter) STOCKHOLM, Feh. 27. A decree issued by the People's Commissaries announces that, owing to the inability of the Soviet republic to carry on certain industrial enterprises, concessions will J- •• granted to foreigners, especially v .1 a view lo the construction of a great northern railway and the development of vast stretches of Russian forest land.