RUSSIA.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14875, 25 September 1918, Page 5

RUSSIA.

SITUATION AT ARCHANGEL.

ALLIED PROTECTORATE ESTAB-

LISHED

DIRECTOR OF THE RED TERROR

A BLOODTHIRSTY LETT.

Anstmhan BJ3*i N.Z. Gehtf* teeociation

New York, Sept. 23

j Delayed press despatches from Arch- , angel say' that the Allied diplomatic I and military staffs have assigned tcrnjporary control, following the .attempted .overthrow of the Tscheikovsky Govern- ' ment, and have established a protectorate, in the. region behind the Allied .front, which will bo relinquished- when 6'-der is restored. Tscheikovsky and the members of his Cabinet are now under Allied protection. Colonel Chapplin, leader of an 'hovfcive coup d'etat, reined'the post r.f commander-in-c-hief rf the Russian :ir"-des until order is maintained in the city. Mr Do-sch Fleurot, writing from Stockholm, snys:— ur£he most awful fi^ire of the Russian £°<1 Terror is a dapper little blonde Lett named Peters. He is Commissioner Extraordinary against the counter-revolution. Peters

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lived in England for many years, and speaks Russian with an English accent. He daily signs away the lives of scores of men and women lie has never seen' because they are suspected of being against the Bolsheviki. Peters has absolute power of life and death over anybody in Russia.

"A neutral who has been before him many times pleading for the lives of innocent persons told me that Peters became furious. The little animal signs death warrants all day, sitting in the Kremlin. On one occasion he signed away the lives of 72 officers without glancing at the paper."

Dr. Stanislaus Lazevert, a Russian colonel, has arrived to see President Wilson in connection with Siberia. He asserts that he with four others (twp of whom were Grand Dukes) killed Rasputin outside the Grand Duke Paul's palace, in order to save Russia from defeat. Colonel Stanislaus Lazevert was commander of the sanitary section of the Russian Red Cross. He said the report that Rasputin was lured into a house and then shot was untrue.