SOVIET TROUBLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 November 1921, Page 5

SOVIET TROUBLES.

ATTEMPT ON TCHITOHERIN’S LIFE. ARRESTS IN MOSCOW. By Telegraph.—Press As.sn.—Copyright Paris, Nov. 12. Advices received via Riga from Moscow state that a member of the Menshevik or Socialist Revolutionary Party attempted to assassinate Tchiteherin, the foreign commissary, in the latter’s reception room, firing two shots, which missed. The assailant was arrested, and declared that he acted by orders of his party. Within two hours 3000 Mensheviks were arrested and house-to-hous? searches were,carried out for two days in Moscow and elsewhere, resulting in further wholesale arrefits. Two Communist leaders, Lunacharski and Sklianski, and many Bolsheviks, were also arrested on unknown charges. Great dissension exists in the Soviet Government circles. The message adds that Tdhitcherin, on the occasion of the fourth anniversary of the Communist revolution, held an official reception at his residence. The British agent was among those present. DISORDERS IN THE UKRAINE. REDS DEMORALISED. London, Nov. 13. News from the Ukraine indicates a further successful development of the anti-Bolshevik movement to the left bank of the Dnieper south of Dieff, and the ejection of the Bolsheviks from the whole district from the river Ibrut to the Polish frontier. The Reds are reported to be demoralised, refusing to obey orders and killing numbers of Jewish military commissars. The Ukrainian paper reports that several Red infantry divisions nave been surrounded and disarmed.