RUSSIA.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14868, 17 September 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

FUGITIVES REACHING LONDON.

TALES OF HORROR.

TERRORISM AND FAMINE AT

PETROGRAD

BOLSHEVISTS UNDER GERMa2?

DIRECTION.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

London, Sept. 15,

Fugitives arriving in London tell sombre stories of the horrors of Russia, fully confirming the constant butcheries^ burnings and shootings. .'

Petrograd.... is . .starving like/ a beleaguered, garcison. Bands of maraud?, ing peasants and robbers. are; holding the roads, outside. '

A curious German-Bolsheviki alliance exists within the city, holding together for mutual protection against the growing hatred of all classes for the Bo\sheviki, who are acting under German orders. German officers are commanding the troops and generally directing the outrages and arrests, and conducting daily hunts for Allied officers and partisans, whose life consists of hairbreadth escapes, they being compelled to change their sleeping apartments nightly and to adopt disguises.

Germans were responsible for the* recent arest of 7000 Russian officers. Horrible brutality was inflicted on the officers, many of whom are legless or armless. They were herded in small dungeons without food or drink, and no sanitation. Hundreds are dying of dysentery and starvation. Kuropatkin was arrested on a charge of participation in a, British conspiracy against the Bokheviki Government. Litvinoff has been released-from Brixton Prison, and allowed /bo live in his private residence under police supervision.