Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-11-24 | Page 3 | 500 Massacred by Bolsheviki

500 massacred BY HEII Men and Dogs Battle for Horseflesh in Pet-rograd. Pet-rograd. WASHINGTON, Nov. 23. Dispatches reaching the state department today from Stockholm say a Helslngfors newspaper prints an account of a terrific Bolshevik massacre at Petrograd. Five hundred former officers were reported marked for murder, and foreigners returning from the interior of Russia were said to be in grave clanger. All the wholesale and retail establishments establish-ments have been nationalized and by putting put-ting Bolshevik committees in charge of all residences, M. Zinovieff, the food administrator, ad-ministrator, has effected a complete secret service system of food. The transport trans-port of food into Petrograd is under close supervision, cutting off the last source Jvvallable to non-Bolshevlki. The friction between Zinovieff and the if Moscow authorities continues, Zinovieff insisting that the northern commune should be independent. The Bolshevlki are executing many prisoners and are making no attempt to conceal that such action has been forced upon them In order to conserve food. The British narrator says that the Bol- i shevik strength in Petrograd as well as I in Moscow has increased since the attempts at-tempts on Lenlne'a life and the advances '.t in the Volga region, largely because many Hussian liberals believe that they must V choose between the Bolshevlki and the extreme reactionaries, as none of the faction fac-tion leaders in the center show strength. Maxim Gorky has joined the Bolsheviki y and has accepted a position in the department de-partment of education. Many others who were at first opposed to the Bolsheviki are taking Bitnilar action. The Petrograd commune recently required re-quired householders to give over their blankets, presumably for the army, under un-der a heavy penalty, and a great scandal lias developed through the discovery by sailors of a tralnload of blankets destined for Germany. Tn spite of the widespread desolation, the commune Is supporting the national opera, the ballet and the theaters, glv-1 ing free performances to soldiers, sailors and school children.