A BOLSHEVIKI APOLOGIST.

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

A BOLSHEVIKI APOLOGIST.

MR RANSOME ON THE SITUATION

MURDERS MET BY EXECUTIONS

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

London, Sept. 10. Mr Ransome says the Bolsheviki, be- ; lieving that if they go under the revo- : lution will.strangle itself or be strangled !by forces outside Russia, now take less 'account of human lives in what they regard as a sacred effort to save the intellect of the revolution from approaching delirium. If the Soviet Go.ivernment have a proscribed list their : opponents have another. Murder on one side meets executions" on the other. i While this bloody, drama is being '■■ played in the towns the dreadful search-for food continues. All the Moscow restaurants are closed. Scraps of salt fish and other substitutes replace bread.

cable News. •

[Pbess Association.—Copyright.]

. Czechs, Cossacks, and Germans bar the roads to the national food supplies, while the Soviet's internal enemies blow up bridges and organise disorders to hamper the distribution of what little food the Soviets possess1.

The Germans, while they can, arc trying to wring money from a desperate Government which struggles 'to keep control. The Germans know Russia cannot pay, and they want to strengthen their hold on their unfortunate debtors.