RUSSIAN AFFAIRS

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16411, 3 January 1919, Page 7

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS

DISAPPOINTED CZECHS. HELP NOT FORTHCOMING. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Association.) (Received January 2nd, 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, January 1. Mr Ackerman, cabling from Vladivostok, points out how the Czechs saved Siberia from Germany and Bolshevik domination. He says: "On November 2nd, 1918, the official representatives of the United States sent a message from which the Czechs concluded that American troops would be sent to help them. Help, however, never came. The Czechs now feel that they were deserted by th 6 Allies. Trotsky, after granting the Czechs a passage through Russia, put everything in the way to delay them. All the Soviets were instructed to disarm the Czechs or shoot them on sight if they were armed. Tunnels were ordered to be blown up to throw trains off the tracks, and instructions were given to send the men to prison camps."

GOVERNMENT TROOPS ADVANCING. (Australian and N.-. Cable Association.) (Renter's TelegTama.) LONDON, January 1. A Russian wireless communique states: —In the Petchora and Mezen (North Russia) region we are continuing to advance, capturing several villages, after fierce fighting. In the Reval region the enemy landed 500 men and four guns. In the direction of Riga we captured twenty guns. On the southern front a strong enemy force pressed us back to Grenevsk. (Received January 2nd, 11.50 p.m.) LONDON, January 1. A Russian wireless message states: — We advanced towards Reval to the Lokska-Kolk line. W© captured Romotz Koo, near Wenden (about 50 miles north-east of Riga), also Romorshof, on the Dvina, and Ussiasny, on the Sventziany-Ponevesh railway. We have taken Ufa, which is the capital of the White Guards, westward of the Urals. The Lithuanian bourgeois Government has left Vilna for Kovno.

A TRADES UNION RESOLUTION. (Eeuter's Telegrams.) (Received January 2nd, 11.50 pan.) DURBAN, January 1. The Trade Union Congress adopted, by 32 votes to 1, a resolution in favour of the withdrawal of Allied troops from Russia. PEASANT REVOLT SUPPRESSED. WHOLESALE MASSACRES AND BURNING. (Beater's Telegram*.) (Received January 2nd, 11.20 p.m.) PARIS, December 31. "Le Journal" publishes a letter from Petrograd showing that the Red Guards suppressed a big revolt of the peasants against the Bolsheviks in the Moscow district rocently, with frightful cruelties, including wholesale massacres and burnings. SOVIET SUCCESSES. (Anatrtlian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Beuter's Telegrams.) (Received January 2nd, 11.20 pan.) LONDON, January 1. A wireless Russian official message says: The Ukrainian Soviet troops have taken several villages in the neighbourhood of Nagrodan, Kliarkoff, afld Trupansk. The Germans fleeing from Kbirkoff abked for the rolling-stock which the railwaymen agreed to supply provided the Germans gave up their arms. The German evacuation of Vilna will be completed by January sth. Chaos and anarchy reign at BrestLitovsk, where the fortresses have been dismantled. THE RESTORATION OF ORDER. Renter, via America. (Received January 2nd, 11.20 p.m.) STOCKHOLM, December 31. Swedish volunteer troops have landed at Esthonia. French transports with two battalions of Turcos, Arabs, and Algerians have arrived at Odessa. British troops will occupy Warsaw. REPORTED ASSASSINATION OF ADMIRAL KOLC2AK. (Beuter's Telegram*.) (Received January 2nd, 11.20 p.m.) LONDON, January 1. Reports from Siberia state that Admiral Kolchak has bean assassinated.