THE BOLSHEVIKS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12571, 7 March 1919, Page 3

THE BOLSHEVIKS.

.... “COMPLETE VICTORY ASSURED.’’ HELSINGFORS, March 8. Trotsky assured tho Pan-Russian Sopot Congress that the critical moment had passed. Complete victory was assured for the Bolsheviks as the Allies were Unwilling to intervene. The military situation was satisfactory. Thero wore four tasks ahead: to occupy the Murmon and Archangel coasts, seize the river exits on tho Black Sea, reach the Prussian frontier and chase the enemy heyond the Urals. “We shall achieve these tasks at any cost,” said Trotsky. A Bolshevik communique states that at Riga all men up to forty-seven years of age and officers up to fifty-five will be called up. The Lettish Soviet Government has established three great concentration onmps for the internment of the middle classes. , COPENHAGEN, March 4. When the Bolsheviks entered Kieff they transferred the population from the slum quarters .te the houses of wealthy people and vice versa. They also made a levy on the city amounting to 200,000,000 roubles. ■ French troops hold Odessa and a small surrounding belt. PREVENTIVE MEASURES IN SWITZERLAND. BERNE, March 4, The Federal Council has prohibited the formation of Soldiers’ Councils under a penalty of imprisonment for two years. The Council has also ordered severe punishment for the dissemination of .false news likely to prejudice the discipline of the army or alarm Hie population.