A BOLSHEVIST STATEMENT.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14859, 5 September 1918, Page 5

A BOLSHEVIST STATEMENT.

SEARCH OP THE EMBASSY

SLAUGHTER OP RUSSIAN

OFFICERS

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

(Received Sept. 4, 7..20 p.m.) Petrograd, Sept. 3. The newspaper "Pravda" states that after the murder of TJritski, Commissioner of Home Affairs, who was in company with Lenin when the latter was shot, the authorities ordered a general examination of houses in P'etrograd. The British Embassy was

searched, several shots being fired therein. One Englishman and also one Bolshevik vse-rc on. the examining committee. Two others were killed. Several arrests were made. Bolsheviki troops occupied the Embassy, where' documents, weapons, and food were seized. The slaughter of thousands of officers in various parts of Russia is reported, i

CABX^NEWS.

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