BOLSHEVISM.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16725, 7 January 1920, Page 7

BOLSHEVISM.

THE RED ADVANCE. (By (.'illo-rri-n Association—Copyright.) ''The Timr«."! LONDON. Jannary 5. j Advices fmm Russia state the ; Beds are completely in possession of 1 tho Donriz coal basin. Their cavalry is 20 n-.iles from Taganrog. General : Donikin's troopri arc fleeing panic- ! stricken. and have evacuated Tsaritsvn, w 1;i,"11 was the principal bulwark of Genera! Donikin's right wins. Tlie ( Heds are at tho gates of tho Cossack ; capital of Novocherkassk. General Donikin's overthrow is not ' confirmed, b;:t the po.-ition of his i armies is desperate. The Allies are I I j> steaim-i s to evacuate the j i civilians from Odessa. j | Dr. Harold V.'illi.ams, in a delayed j l telegram from RostofT. nives a glimpse ; <>f tho vast retreat in bitter winter over ; the icy Russian steppes. A great ] migration precedes tlie soldiers. ; Traders, workmen, women and children ' : are abandoning everything, hurrying [ away in trains, carts and afoot. The . I peasants and Cossacks aro moving I southwards in great caravans, with I berds of cattle, horses and camels, as | though flving from a terror. I'non the ] issue rferorriq the stability of Europe, for the Bolsheviks are certain to turn elsewhere for further conquests. ''The Times." in an editorial, says:—. '"Surely none can suppose that j triumphant Bolshevism will wnllnw contortedly until it dies from its own putridity. The more it decavs at the i centre the more it; will press out- I wards into China. Poland, Armenia, J and India." A Teheran message states that Soviet troops captured Krasnovod«k, on the east coast of the Caspian Sea, aid aro reported to be predominant at Baku. (Australian and X.Z. Cn.ble Association.) LONDON, January 4. A BolMiovik wirele=s message states that, owing to bis defeats, a new Government has been established at General Penikin's hcadouarters. with General RomonnfFsky replacing Genera] Denikin. fUni'td Servient j LONDON. January 4. Mr J. I/. Garvin, writing in tho "Observer." says the effective hemming in of the Bolsheviks is possible onlv by the co-operation of Japan and India on one. side, and Germanv on the other, lie' suggests that the Allies seenro Germany's assistance by offering modifications' of the territorial and indemnity provisions of tho Pence Treaty which are untenable. In any rase it is futile to deny that " Lenin and Trotzky aro thorough lcadera, and have proved bril.iant t organisers and strategists, who have utterlv outmatched their opponents. 1 a UNITED STATES ROUND-UP. r TiF. A TYPHIS ARRESTED. J NFAV YORK, Januaij 5. n Gregory "\Veinstcin, the associate or n Clarions the Soviet Ambassador, has v been arrested on a deportation warrant. h Weinstcin is tho lender of the Rusn si an Communists in the United States. fA previous mossage said the de- . portation of Martens was pending.]