RUSSIAN SITUATION"

Waikato Times, Volume 91, Issue 14232, 5 December 1919, Page 5

RUSSIAN SITUATION"

EFFECT OF PEACE NEGOTIATIONS.

TRIUMPH FOR RED ARMY. CYNICAL GERMAN PLANS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) LONDON, November 30. A Moscow wireless message boasls of the triumph of the Red Army in the two years' struggle against the Home and Foreign Count Revolutionaries efforts to strangle the Soviet Republic. Our victories have humbled the pride of the haughty international capitalists, who are now seemingly willing to enter into peace negotiations with the Soviet. Russia wants peace, and she is prepared to pay her debts and grant other concessio'ns, but will not 'accept a peace enslaving or strangling the Republic. LONDON, December 3. A message from Reval dated Saturday states that following the latest series of political murders in Petrograd, the Reds arrested between 500 and 600 connected with three antiBolshevik organisations. Fischer, a member of the German Secret Service, denounced Elisarov, an ex-soldier who acted as the connecting link between the organisations. Elisarov refused information. Tortures were inflicted with thumbscrews, strips of flesh being cut off and baked in his presence. The torturers secured the names of many anti-Bolshevik officers. British agents estimated that the Reds executed over 1300 in the Petrograd district in November. Recent stages of the tragic history illustrate the cynical German plan first to secure extermination of the Russian intelligence officers and then betray the Bolsheviks themselves. ANGLO-AMERICAN RELATIONS. REASONS FOR INTERVENTION. (Received Dec. 4, 5.5 p.m.) COPENHAGEN, Dec. 1. The Daily Herald interviewed Litvinoff, who denied that Russia had relations with Britain or America. The real teason for Allied intervention could be summed up in the word "concessions." The Bolsheviks preferred to' grant concessions to wasting the Russian strength in an endless war. They demanded a full investigation regarding the alleged atrocities.