CONDITIONS IN RUSSIA
MARCH OF THE PEASANT RED ARMY OVERWHELMED. HORRORS IN PETRuGRAD. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received July 28, 5.5 p.m. LONDON, July 28. The Morning Post's correspondent reports Uiat hordes of starving Russian peasants arc inarching on Moscow, destroying everything en route. They have entirely devastated the town of Tamboff, 300 miles south-east of Moscow, overwhelming the Red army sent to stop them.
The peasants have killed and eaten the horses of the Bolshevik cavalry, the lire brigades, and municipal services. The Red troops refused to shoot.
After hunger demonstrations and strikes, 20,618 women were shot in Pelrograd.
The Daily Express 1 Berlin correspondent states that the Soviets have proclaimed a State siege in Petrograd and Moscow.
A Russian paper in Berlin reports that Trotsky has been arrested.
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Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14712, 29 July 1921, Page 5
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