AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA

Waikato Times, Volume 89, Issue 13886, 11 October 1918, Page 5

AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA

SLAUGHTER AND ARRESTS DIMINISHING. (The Times.) Received October 10, 5.5 p.m. STOCKHOLM, October 9. Advices from Petrograd confirm the execution of Gutchkoff, but the execution ot Kuropotkin has not been confirmed, and it is believed that le is still imprisoned, refusing Lenin'f ofier of Liberation conditionally on his recognition of the Soviet jrovernmeut. The wholesale slaughter and arrests pre diminishing. A Soviet army of 300,000 is daily exercised in the streets of Moscow and Petrograd, and appears well fed, clothed and disciplined. Lenin is delighted with Germany's political changes, regarding these as the l>eginning of a triumph for the proletariat of the world. LATER LITVINOFF'S BANKING OPERATIONS. (Australian and N.Z. Coble Assn.) Received October 10, 7.10 p.m. LONDON, October 9. Litvinoff, the liolshevik representative in England, kept an account at a London bank and drew cheques in favour of noted agitators. He also kept a second account at the Russian Dank, from which he drew £IO,OOO, but always in notes. GERMANY'S INTENTIONS. REPLACING THE BOLSHEVIKS. WITH A CADET GOVERNMENT. ALLIED SUBJECTS SAFE. 'Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received October 11, 10.15 a.m. NEW YORK, Oct. 9. M. Fleurat cables from Stockholm that lie learns from a reliable source that the Germans are contemplating the overthrow of the Bolshevik regime shortly, replacing it by a Cadet Government. Cadet leaders, among whom is M. Miliukoff, are now visiting Berlin. WASHINGTON, Oct. 9. State Department advices from Norway say that British and French cilizens who took refuge in the American Legation at Petrograd, were allowed to leave unharmed by the Bolsheviks. BOLSHEVIK PROPAGANDA IN ENGLAND. « ENTENTE POLTCY ASSAILED. (Australian and N.Z. Cabl° Assn.) Received October 11, 11.10 a.m. LONDON, October 10. Jbe South Wales Labour leaders and ninny workers have received a printed circular by post from London with tinsignatures of Lenin and Trotsky attached, attacking the Entente policy in Russia. The circular says: "Tho-- • lie who declare that Germany will Inbeaten. The only wav to end the w.-r is for the workers of all countries to combine," and appeals to them to save the Russian revolution and the Bolshevik movement. GERMAN EVACUATION (Australian and N.Z. CabiP Af>sn ) Received October 11, 1.10 p.m. LONDON. October 10. The Daily News' Stockholm correspondent says that the Germans are evacuating portions of Russia, after removing everything valuable.