RUSSIAN AFFAIRS

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16451, 19 February 1919, Page 8

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS

AMERICAN TROOPS TO BE WITHDRAWN.

A£ *°ciatiOD.—<CopjriffhM (Australian and X.Z. Cs bl 9 Association) WASHINGTON. February 17. y,.* Newton D. Baker, Secretary for t. ,jV\ i ' aVS i i * thc American troops "ill be withaiaun from Northern Russia in the spring. The present force -n 11 ? endangered. Reinforcements will be despatched in order to facilitate toe Withdrawal. THE ROMANOFFS. ("The limes.") ~ , TOKIO, Februarr. 16. .trustworthy authorities -who have ar- | rived from Siberia insist that £he rei Ported executions of the Romanoffs at ; I'.katerinburg were really an elaborate \ piece ot stage management. They doi that friendly Bolshevists and j orthodox Russians smuggled the exi j 1 A Way ,' n t^ic of a merchant, | and that he is now in the Kremlin. I e x-pzanna and her family aro inM m e(1 ' n , B monastery at Sergievskv, j versts from Moscow. £ ! • Bolshevists aro spreading a rej j port that Lenin will ultimately transfer s j his power only to the monarch, recall- ■ the .stetoment published in "Tlkj iii fimcs ' in August, 1918, in which it j J | was alleged that Lenin told the CostU that tho Bolshevists would restore I' 1 . e Czar to the throne after suppress*j 1&Z tbc bourgeoisie influence. •jj BRITISH ACTIVITY. 'j | (Reuter'i T«legram«.) v j', (Received February 18th, 8 p.m.) j'! ) BERNE, February 16. Jj The "Hamburger Fremdemblatt" I' states that the Bolshevists have desert- ' |;' «d Windan owing to the bombardment |i by British warships. ' 1' It is reported from Constantinople the ! | .British have occupied Nikomedia, An- ( I; gora, and Konieh. ' r , — ;; UKRAINIANS v. POLES. < | . (Received February 18th, 8 p.m.) * : WARSAW, February 16. j j The inter-Allied Commissions are a I sending an Allied delegation, includ- T , ing a British general, to Lemberg to I endeavour to arrange an armistice be- s tween the Poles and the "Ukrainians. 1 i The Poles, with only three thousand ? i regular troops, end a few guns, are de- a Lembeig valiantly against the p krainians, who are well equipped fprifch Austrian artillery. Polish women Pl L and children are participating in tho j] ! fighting, and many Polish soldiers are v , ' without greatcoats, though there are oi £42 degrees of frost. K

!denekin advances. ("Th« Time*.") February 18th, 7.30 p.m.) CONSTANTINOPLE, February 16. The Advance of .General Periekin's my aloig the Stavropol-Baku railway ems to have paralysed all opposition, e is expected momentarily to reach stroush, thus establishing a solid ont between --the Caspian and the lack Seas. Since February 3rd he ts taken prisoner 31,000, exclusive of lousands of sick and wounded. His .ptures include 267 guns.' His whole iccess is due to the Bolshevist army's ansport being cut off. The Cossacks it' the enemy's communications be?een Foskend and Renburg, and compiled the Ural Cossacks to fall back to urier, on the north coast of tho Casan Sea, which General Tolstoff is holdINTERTENTION URGED. (Renter'* Received February 19th, 1.40 a.m.) PAHIS, February,l7. Renewed pressure is being exerted on e "War Council for immediate interintion in Russia. The French are ging military action against the Bolovists on a largo scale. The Amerins continue their opposition to tho ilitary policy.