THE BOLSHEVIKS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12569, 5 March 1919, Page 3

THE BOLSHEVIKS.

REIGN OF TERROR. LENIN APPREHENSIVE. COPENHAGEN’ March 3. Brigandage in the streets of Petroguul is general. Parties consisting of lit teen or twenty Red Guards each go about at night terrorising the populatmn and pillaging private houses and public buildings. ~.p‘, in a speech at Moscow said: i lie oulj tiling io do is to shoot Severn 1 hundreds of our own officials in J etrograd and Moscow in one dav. otherwise our own fate will be sealed/’ Lenin also .stated that the production ot .-.evict bank notes exceeds £000,000,000 monthly. Among-the hostages whom the Bolsheviks recently killed were Generals Rimsky and Dimitrieff. They, with a nunclrod others* wore shot down with machine-guns. Those found to be still alive wore hacked to pieces with swordsI ho peasants refused to pay all taxes resisting their collection by force of arms. (Received March 5. 12.3-5 a.m.) „ COPENHAGEN, March 3. the Lithuanians, pursuing the defeated Bolsheviks, reached a line twenty-two kilometres eastward of Vilna. PEACE WITH THE ALLIES. WASHINGTON, March 3. Despatches from Archangel state that M. Zuiovicli, Governor Pf Petrograd, m a speech, said that the Bolsheviks were unwilling to attend the Prince’s island conference because any peace signed with the Allies would not bo considered binding. It would serve tho purpose of alleviating the food shortage Inn would not proven j; the continued organisation of the Red Army and tho spread of Bolshevism.