The daily times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1902-1936, 1918-09-28

he question was discussed az q
meeting Of the Central Committees
of the Soviet, the newspaper says,
and when Premier Lenine expressed
an earnest desire to return to order
ly methods of government a major
lty of those present supported him.
Washington, Sept. 2S.-Coinci-
dental with the safe arrival at Stock
nolm Of De Witt C. Poole, the Acting
American Consul General at Moscow,
Who left Russia under instructions
rom Secretary Lansing, the State
Department has received further in
formation regarding the Russian
reign of terror.
This covers the reports of massa-
cres and other atrocities made ia
miliar in press dispatches from
Stockholm and elsewhere, and con-
firms the statements that in the
Fortress of st. Peter and st. Paul in
Petrograd there have been lately in
termed several hundred English and
French, including officials. Ten or
more are crowded into room un-
Ill there is no space remaining in
which they can be seated or lie
down. and the unfortunates are COM
oelled to remain standing without
food or care.
Recently, owing to lack of space in
Petrograd prisoners were sent to
Moscow, where the British Consul
uocknart is interned in the Krem-
lin without even bed clothing.
Tchicherin the Foreign Commits
;ary, told the neutral Consuls that
he regarded foreign journalists as
spies, who would be treated accord
ingly. A recent decree prescribed
the same punishment for aliens as
for Russians suspected of counter
revolutionary participation.
The Russian Embassy has received
and tonight made public cabled re-
ports showing that the new centr i
government Of Russia. organized at
Ufa by members of the National Con-
stituent Assembly, which was elected
last fall, is in the form of directo-
rate of FIVE members, among whom
are the present or former heads of
the three main sectional govern
ments at Archangel, Omsk. and Sa-
mara. They are Avksentieff, Astrof,
Vologodsky Tschaikovsky, and Lieut..
Gen. Boldireff.
Avsentieff, head of the director.
ate, is a member of the Constitu-
tional Democrats of the Left and was
Minister of Agriculture in the Ke-
rensky Provisional government.
Astrof formerly was Mayor of Mos
COW, and both he and Tschaikovsky,
who formerly was head of the Arch
angel government ARE Social Revo-
lutionists of the Right. Lieut.. Gen.
Boldiroff Is a new figure to Wash
ington. He was formerly profess
sor in the Military Academy of Rus
sia and represents the military in
the new government.
The conference at Ufa, which es-
tablshed the directorate, the cable
grams say was made up of mem
bers OF the Constituent Assembly,
delegates of organs Of provincial au-
thorities and of the Siberian govern
ment, representatives of the Social
Revolutionists and of Social Demo-
cratic parties, and delegates of the
"Union of Liberty of the People, :"
and of the Group of Renaissance. =
The two latter organizations proba-
by represent bourgeois democratic
groups.
The program of the new govern
ment as indicated a few days ago in
press dispatches, is united Russia,
reputation of separate peace and
of the Brest-Litovsk treaties, loyalty
to the Allies, and continuance of the
war against Germany in alliance
with the Czecho-slovac forces.
The Russian Embassy has also
been Informed by cable from the
Russian Legation at Peking of a
statement made to the allied repre-
sentatives there by Foreign Minister