RUSSIA'S STATE OF HORROR
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NEW YORK. October 4
Mons Dosch Fleurot, writing irom Stockholm, states: WI learn from a neutral diplomat who has anuved from Moscow if Mr Pwle had reached tha Finnish frontier two houra later than wheih j»e eeotiped from Russia, he) would' ha.ye been arrested and oonfiniedi in, the Fortress Peter and Paul. The order for his arrest was given by tha Extraordinary Commission ugiainst the counter -i-e----volutioai.
A diploma* said liiw in Petrograd was unendurable. The Red terror wua growing worse daily. Lenin. tried to prevent the wholesale! executions of innocent Bourgjeoise, bufc the Extraordinary Commission is more powerful than, he. In all the cities and. provinces the educated cdasseß aire being: murdered.
Tho head of the Extraordinary Commiission iim Pofcrograd is "**"! Shiataff, formerly a New York anarcihisti. According to neuta-al r reports he has had executed eight mierabeirs of the Imperial family in Spaeskaia prison. Ma.ny Bolshevik officials a,re grafters. It was discovered: after Ouritsky's deaith. *hab they had; amassed fouir million roublesi by spsouiation, and wore ordered to bet executed. —A. and N.Z. Cable. MOSCOW, October 5' It is reported that General Gutneihroff, former Minister for y has been murdered. —Times Service.
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Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13819, 8 October 1918, Page 2
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