RUSSIAN SITUATION.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 15971, 13 November 1919, Page 3

RUSSIAN SITUATION.

TO BE REFERRED TO LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association, NEW YORK, November 10.

It is understood that the Russian problems will be referred to the League of Nations, which will give mandates' over different sections of non-Bolshevik Russia. Itj is suggested that England become mandatory for Northern Russia, the United States and Japan for Siberia, and France for Ukraine. It is said that the League, assisted by a Russian Council sitting in Paris, will be able to direct operations against the Bolsheviks without necessarily granting recognition to any one Russian Government.

THE FIENDISH BOLSHEVIKS,

TERRIBLE ATROCITIES

SYDNEY, November 12,

Mr Harold Tanner has arrived from Finland with the object of developing trade between Australia and Finland. He assisted in fighting the Bolsheviks in Finland. He gives a blood-curdling account of atrocities by the Bolsheviks. Their favourite method was to nail whole families to tables by spikes through their tongues.' People were crucified in churches, and others suspended by the feet till they died. Many had deep incisions cut in their bodies and salt rubbed into the wounds. The whole thing was too horrible for anyone to have imagined possible. Bolshevism in Russia had degenerated to a bestial, elemental stage, when everyone had to fight to live.