Evening Star Newspaper, November 28, 1924, Page 4

PEASANT REVOLT ALARMS MOSCOW Georgia Uprising Put Down Ruthlessly—1,000 Reported & Slain by Chekas. - By Cable to The Star and RIGA, November 28. sernment statements co recent Georgian uprising have greatly | understated the seriousness of the affair and most forelgn reports have greatly overpainted it. The writer has heard several ac- counts from people there Russian gov- erning the | fighting and nothing battle, even on against the present regime, with its high taxation, lack of freedom and meddlesome interference by bol- shevist committees. Had the affair been better planned the whole Cau- casus might have been In revolt. The uprising gave local Chekas the power of exercising wids vengeancs, which they did in wholesale fashion. These Chekas still possess the power of Inflicting death without the judicial controi once possessed by the Moscow Cheisa. They aryested every pers: unacceptable to them, shooting them promptly without mercy. The lowest estimate of the number of shootings were 700 and the high- est estimate 6,000 actually Killed. There were about one thousand actu- ally killed. Figures pubtished ofii- cially in Moscow were 24. Besides these, large numbers were sent into Arctic exile. Three groups of exiles, numbering altogether than one thousand, were shipped nort from Tomsk in September. Many ot | the Georglans killed or exiled include | the best people by “(Copyright, ago Duily News Co.) REVOLT IS SPREADING. Brazil Rebels Get Additions, Is TENANTS’ LEAGUE PLANS TO REOPEN RENT WAR| Two Meetings Scheduled for Re- view of Causes Back of Contro- vérsy With Landlords. While the tenants and landlord con- troversy dled down over the Thanks- giving festivities, plans for theuctivi- ties of the Tenants' League for this week end threaten to even surpase the exciting events of last Saturday night Two meetings are planned. An open forum, to which the landlords and ants have been invited in order t pre-s their views, will be held street. Mrs. Henry C. Brown will ad- dress the meeting on “Why a Ten- ant ue in Washington.” ol w night a_ mass meeting will be held by the Tenants' League in the auditorium of Central High I at 8 pm. An appeal has been t out by the Tenants' League to the general public urging attendance tonight at the Penguin Club, 1712 1} Open Until 9 Saturday Night. NACHMAN 8th and Penna. Ave. S.E. AL GIFT for the LT T T e ORUMBO OVERCOAT ' Reduced to = UL | actual uprising soon as it began. Communists were able to d the situation. but 4,000 troops were | sent there later. | Revolt Alarms Soviet. showed, to | £ tw vl S R authoritie! tillery regiment and a fiyi ds insist that employes’ population of do not vary more than 30 v dlscontented u week. at_the nreeting. Various plans for the “relief of nts” will be submitted by the emonstration that a ency exists in Wash- | Report. 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