RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16412, 4 January 1919, Page 9

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

«CZECHO-SLOVAKS CAPTURE PERM.

BOLSHEVIK ARMY DESTROYED.

(By Cable.—Press Aseociation.— Copyright) and Is./. Cuble Asaociation. VLADIVOSTOK, January 2. General Gaida, head of the -j Slovaks, has captured Perm ing the Bolshevik army and 30,000 prisoners. General Gaida captured an armoured train, from k" l ™ Lenin barely succeeded in escaping.. Several of his party were taken prisoner. Hundreds of machine-guns ana light artillery were captured. AT J.TED TROOPS ADVANCING. NEW YORK, January 2. The Allied troops have advanced fourteen miles along the road to tho Onega river. They have captured more than twelve villages, and are still advancing. . , Despatches from Archangel state that American troops have capered the village of Kadish. On the northern Russian front they have advanced their lines two miles. ANXIETY OF THE ALLIES. LONDON, January 2. The "Daily Mail" says:— l "Affairs in Russia are causing deep anxietv to the Allies, and the Russian question is likely to be the first discussed at the Peace Conference._ Britain ja against a major expedition to Russia, preferring to see the establishment of a Russian Government, but is unable, however, to discover where the elements necessary to give stability to such Government exist. A SENATOR'S PROTEST. WASHINGTON. January 2. In the Senate Senator Johnston protested against any further shedding of American blood in Russia. He said the United States had no business to interfere there. SWEDISH MTNTSTTTR ADVOCATES INTERVENTION. (Australian and N.Z. C&bl© Association.) (Received January 3rd, 8.20 p.m.) STOCKHOLM, January 1. Hjalmar Branting, Minister of Finance, in his paper "Social Domocraten" advooates intervention against Bolshevism in Russia, because of the almost total stoppage of industrial and agricultural activity, condemning the Russian people to starvation and death. The present regime no longer represents any vital revolutionary forces, supported only by bayonets.