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BOLSHEVISMUS.

Valparaiso, April 18th. (By special cable to The Daily Thrill.)—­Three men, named Fedor Popemoff, Leon Strunski and Igor Wunderbaum, were arrested here this morning on suspicion of being Bolshevist agents.  Their lodging was searched and a quantity of seditious literature, a portmanteau full of Browning pistols and some hanks of dried caviare removed.  At a preliminary examination they claimed that they had been sent to Chile by the Siberian Red Cross to establish a co-operative guinea-pig ranch for indigent Grand Dukes.  The police believe that Wunderbaum is no other than the notorious McDuff, the Peebles anarchist, who, when not actively engaged in preaching revolution, used to earn a precarious livelihood contributing to the Scottish comic papers.

Moscow, April 17th (delayed). (By the Special Correspondent of The Morning Roast.)—­By intervening in Russia at once the Allies can destroy Bolshevism at a blow.  Three days hence the Red hordes may be sweeping across Western Europe in an irresistible flood.  At the present moment Trotsky has less than one thousand one hundred and thirty-five trustworthy troops all told, mostly Chinese, with a smattering of Army Service Corps.  In a month’s time he will have a million and a half of well-trained soldiers at his beck.  Don’t ask me how he does it.  He has plenty of money and his Army is well paid.  Only yesterday I saw a private of the Red Guards pay five roubles for a hair-cut.  Will it be another case of “Too late”?

New York, April 18th. (By special cable to The Daily Thrill.)—­While truffle-tracking in the Saratoga forest a corporal and three men of the United States Marines came upon what is believed to be a cache of Bolshevist arms.  The cache contained six 9-inch howitzers, two hundred thousand rifles and a million rounds of ammunition, and was skilfully concealed under the bole of a tree.  Secret service men claim that this is part of a gigantic plot for the disorganization of traffic, the nationalization of cocktails and the wresting of Ireland from the strangulating grip of the Anglo-Saxon party.  Two men have been arrested in Seattle in connection with the affair.  On one of them was found Bolshevist literature and two hundred million francs in notes of the Deutsche Bank.  He admitted that his name was not Devlin and said that the money had been given to him to hold by an Australian soldier who had not returned for it.

Moscow, April 19th. (From the Special Correspondent of The Daily Blues.)—­I have just had a chat with Hackoff, the confidant of Trotsky.  He indignantly denied that Russia was in a state of anarchy and pointed out that one hundred and twenty-three thousand one hundred and nine persons had already been executed for conduct likely to cause a breach of the peace.  There can be no question that the man is sincere.  He was very despondent, and stated