RED RUSSIA

Waikato Times, Volume 89, Issue 13893, 19 October 1918, Page 5

RED RUSSIA

BOLSHEVIK EXCESSES. HUNDREDS OF REFUGEES SHOT. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received October 18, 5.5 p.m. NEW YORK, October 17. Mr Arno Doesehfleurot, the. NewYork World's Russian correspondent, who is now in Christiania, cables that the Bolsheviks are killing millowners and engineers who arc capable of reorganising the disrupted Russian industries. A trainload of refugees from Moscow report that refugees are being shot by the hundred. More than "0 Allied Officials have been imprisi ned. The refugees here include the British, and French Consular officials. The British Consul-General (Mr Lockhart), interviewed, said: An attempt was made on August 30 to assassinate Lenin. The same night the British Embassy at Petrograd was raided. I was twice arrested and kept for the days in close confinement th"n sent to a condemned cell in the K-em--1 in. but was afterwards liberated. The cells were overcrowded, and 1 could not even sit down. The con'Htions were appalling and the food revolting. Several inmates went insane. General Lavergne and the British officials escaped to the Norwegian Consulate when the Embassy was raide!, but were besieged by Bolsheviks and the food and water supply cut oh' for several days." Other refugees interviewed s.vd that the Bolsheviks were stronger than ever and conditions were almost hopeless. Well-known persons in Petrograd continue to mysteriously disappear. Received October 17, 7.30 p.m. LONDON, October 17. A Russian message states that (irar.d Duke Nicholas has been condemned to • death.