INDESCRIBABLE CHAOS AND TERRORISM.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14865, 12 September 1918, Page 5

INDESCRIBABLE CHAOS AND TERRORISM.

ALLIED NATIONALS' LIVES HANGING BY A THREAD.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association

New York, Sept. 10.

Mr Arno Doseh Fleurot, the "New York World's" correspondent at Stockholm, who has just arrived from Petrograd and Moscow with.a party of -Allied nationals and refugees, cables that ho is afraid to tell tho truth about the horrors of Russia, bec£fcus& the Bolsheviki may take .vengeance on- the remaining Allied nationals,: whoso; lives hang on a thread.

The correspondent continues; "Executions in. Moscow by order of the Bolshoviki tribunal are so frequent that Maxim silencers are used to prevent the sounds reaching the masses. Lettish executioners in the army refused to shoot any more victims. Chinese troops are now the Bolshevists' executioners.

"There are similar scenes in every Russian city. The conditions are even worse in the provinces.

"The Bolsheviki Government, abandoned by the peasants, realises that unleßs it rules by terror it will be tillable to govern the people. The struggle is past the stage of a class conflict. Every Bolsheviki is now at the throat of every other man. I have never seen such scenes, which are only comparable to the Reign of Terror in JTrance, and in some respects are worse.

"The peasants were revolting every-, wht're for three weeks before I left Petrograd. There was constant sanguinaryl fighting; between the peasants and the Red Guards: fifty miles south from the city. The' Red Army, however, is so weak that it is only able to hold the front against the Czechoslovaks because the latter are advancing slowly and reorganising the country as they advance.. •

"Thousands of soldiers are deserting; from the Red Army, which is hopelessly disorganised. Everyone An Russia knows that the Allies or the Czechoslovaks, with 20,000 men, could capure Moscow with little difficulty."

The United Press Washington correspondent says the State Department has received advices that Germany and the Bolsheviki have signed an offensive treaty against' the Allies in North Russia.