RUSSIAN REVOLT.
SCHEME TO OUST SOVIET. ; COMMUNISTS HANGED. B v Telegraph—-Pre«i3 Association—Copyright “ Times ” Service. (Received Juiv 18. 10.30 a.m.) LONDON. July 17. The Riga correspondent of “ The Times’’ says:—“A message from a tiustworthy Petrograd source confirms the recent reports that new and wellorganised anti-Bolshevik groups have been active in various parts of NorthWestern Russia. Towards the end of June they Jbegan operations simultaneously in the Vitebsk, Tver, Pskoff, Petrograd and Novgorod provinces, and last week raided the towns of Jyliolm Velezh, Ostaslikov and Rzlieff, where they occupied the Soviet buildings, hanged Communists, freed prisoners and then retired to the forest. Their objects are to make the position of the Communists, outside the big centres, difficult without considerable * , military support, and to convince the ! Soviet masses that the Moscow Government is impotent against determined organised action. Thereby they hope to gain recruits for further action on
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17345, 18 July 1924, Page 7
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