THE BOLSHEVIST REGIME.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 15040, 7 April 1919, Page 5

THE BOLSHEVIST REGIME.

BRITISH WHITE BOOK

tAPPALLING RECORD OF ATROCITIES.

[Australian and N.Z.. Cable Association and Iteuter.)

(Received April 6, 5.5 p.m.) London, April 4 A Foreign Office "White Book contains a collection of British official and othe> reports covering the Bolsheviki regime ; from the summer of 1918 to the present date. ) It is issued in accordance with ; the decision of the War Cabinet last January. It is an appalling story of atrocities and misery. A Britisher who left Moscow in December says that thousands of the inhabitants have been hanged. He mentions that 15 ORussian officers imprisoned at Pskoff were sawn to pieces by Mongolian soldiers. The British Consul at Ekaterinburg on January 13th reports that hundreds of civilians were murdered in the Ural towns. Captured officers had their shoulder straps nailed to their shoulders Some civilians had their eyes gouged out, and others' noses were cut oif. Others were dipped in rivers till they ; were frozen to death. , The Dutch Minister at Petrograd did his utmost to succour British and other Allied subjects, who were arrested , wholesale at Moscow in the panio following the attempt to assassinate Lenin. He repeatedly interviewed Tchitcherin, whom he impressed with power, saying that the time | had come when the Soviet authorities must pay individually for acts of terrorism ; but it was impossible to obtain definite promises from Tchitcherin regarding the fate of the British. The measures adopted by the Bolsheviki can only end in bankruptcy, though the resources of the country are such that there is still scope for continuance of Bolshevist rule. Nevertheless the position of agriculture is monthly more acute, and eventually seed grain must be consumed. Food stocks and live stock are exhausted.