12 OCTOBER 1918, Page 21

In the September number of Les Peuples Libres, a valuable

monthly published at Lausanne and also by Messrs. Hachette of Paris, there is a noteworthy article on the Bolsheviks by M. Semionov, who shows by quotations from the Russian Press that the Bolsheviks are in no sense representative of the masses, but have, on the contrary, tileated the working men and the middle class with equal violence. He shows, too, that in many districts the peasantry have left their land unfilled, so that the winter will bring famine on an unexampled scale in Great Russia.