TERRIBLE MASSACRES.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 September 1924, Page 5

TERRIBLE MASSACRES.

PEASANTS KILLED BY REDS. VILLAGES SET ON FIRE. SMALL REPUBLIC SWEPT. APPEAL TO THE ALLIES. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright Received Sept. 17, 5.5 p.m. Paris, Sept. 16. M. Jordania. President of Georgia, makes a moving appeal for English and French intervention in the RussoGeorgian conflict in order to reach a pacific settlement. He says: "The Bolsheviks, reinforced from the sea, are descending on Batoum, bloodily massacring old people, women and children, whose bodies are thickly strewn along the railway. Houses are burning and neighbouring villages have been put to fire and sword. All the population able to bear arms have entered into the struggle. The most sanguinary phases of Georgian history pall before the unheard of barbarism now practised-” M. Jordania declares that the Bolsheviks are forcing Georgia to join the Soviet Federation, though each republic n supposed to be able to leave freely when it desires to do so. TO SUPPRESS REVOLT. SEVERE METHODS ORDERED. Received Sept- 17, 9.40 p.m. Moscow, Sept. 16. Parties of the cruellist members of the Cheka secret police, including Chinese, have set out for the Caucasus to suppress the Georgian revolt with the geverest measures if necessary.