RUSSIA.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16608, 4 December 1919, Page 7

RUSSIA.

MOKE BOLSHEVIK OUTRAGES. GERMAN 7 SPIES ASSIST. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received Deo. 4. 1.25 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 1. A message from Reval dated Nov. 30 states that, following the latest series of political murders in Petrograd, the Reds arrested 500 or 600 connected with three anti-Bolshevik organisations. Fischer, a member of the German Secret Service, denounced Eiisarov, an exsoldier who acted as a connecting link between the organisations. Eiisarov refused to give information and tortures were inflicted with thumbscrews. Strips of flesh were also cut oil and baked in his presence. This secured the names of many anti-Bolshevist officers. British agents estimate that the Reds executed over 1300 in - the Petrograd district in November. Recent stages of the tragic history illustrate the cynical German plan, first to secure the extermination of the Russian intelligentsia officers then to betray the Bolsheviks themselves. SOVIET AGENT. AND BRITISHTIioUR PAPER. (Received Deo. 4, 1.25 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 1. The Daily Herald interviewed Litvinoff, who denied that Russia had relations with Germany. For economic reasons she would far prefer relations with Britain or America. The real reason for the Allied intervention could be summed up in the word “concessions,” and the Bolsheviks, being realists, preferred- to grant concessions to wasting Russian strength in endless war. He demanded a full investigation regarding the alleged atrocities. I