REDS' ADVANCE.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16728, 10 January 1920, Page 9

REDS' ADVANCE.

DESIGNS IN CENTRAL ASIA

t"By C.ib'.o - Pmas Association —Copyright.) j (Australian ar.-i N'.Z. Cable AwocUtior..) [ LONDON, January S. ft is authoritatively .stated that thei Bol.sh-jvik negotiations with Lithuania j have broken down, and that their re-j sumption is improbable. I fioneral Deiiikin's military situation | i i yoing from had to worse. Tho JVol-1 .-hi'vil; claims of largo raptures of men and material leave little hope that CJrn-j eral LYnikin will .-aeceod in keeping! back the overwhelming Reds. Tho j North. Caspian Re.L have taken C.uriet, tho base ot the I'ral Coisacks, unti j aro converging on Sergiotiol. (ioncrnli Dutov is threatened everywhere. and; it is doubtful il" in- nil! | ( e able to withdraw oxeopt into Chinese Mongolia. The Hods are hack Admiral Koltr-Jmk'fi main body which has practically reused to count as a military factor. A Hod column far north in Siberia I orcupi"d Borezov, Ill') miles north of ; TohoLk. I 1 lie B-dshoviks have entered tho! hitherto neutral zone rf Bokhara, there-1 by securing direct railway communication between Tran-easnia and European Russia, via Ta-hk r nd and Samarkand, 1 which will facilitate the concentration of troops in Turkestan for proserin in>_' the far-reaching d.v-iirns of tho Bolsheviks who are striving to hrihe Bokhara nnd Afghanistan to accept their papr»r eurrruey I v lnr::o territorial conressions. The Bokharans do not appear to have assented, while tho friction between the BoM:eviks nnd Afghans is increasing. The Bolshevik depirns, after th'> shortly o-«cpoot<>d fall of Krosnovodsk, evidently include control of the Caspian, the occupation of Baku. the penetration of Persia from the South Caspian, and n rear attnek on the volunteor army. They will also, doubtless, aim at direct penetration of Persia, via Khornssnn nnd a largo antiBritish move towards Tndia. in conjunction with Afghanistan and others affected |,y tho pan-Islamic movement. Swarms of agents are receiving intensive training in propaganda. awl some have already been sent to Persia and the Caucasus with large supplies of forged English money. (router's Te!e;rrani».) (Received January Oth. f) p.m.l BERLIN, January 7. Tiie Ukrainian Legation states that General T)enikin is retreating towards Odessa. Much railway mnterial, mostly of Enclish origin. is falling into the hands of tho Ukrainians. A REPORT T>ENIET). (Renter's Telcfrra ma.) (Received January Oth. 9 p.m.) LONDON, January 7. The report that Colonel Tallent is bringing a 'Bolshevik peace offer is officially denied. fA message from Stockholm on Wednesday said: An Ksthonian paper announces tliat the Rritish representative in the Baltic countries, Colonol Tallent, lias started for London to transmit a new peaco offer from Lenin, containing a promiso to abolisli terrorism.] JAPAN ANT> SIBERIA. (Received January 10tb, 12.'15 a.m.) LONDON, January 7. The Australian Press Association is officially informed that tho Japaneso trrops were sent to Irkutsk, not as a fighting force, but merely to protect tho Japanese residents. THE POLISH OFFENSIVE. (Rocoived January 10th, 1.45 a.m.) COPENHAGEN, January 7. The Lettish and Polish forces aro continuing their advanee. They hnve reestablished railway communication betw»v>n lliga, lJvinsk, and Warsaw. BOLSHEVISM IN. AMERICA. (Received January 10th, 1.-15 a.m.) WASHINGTON, January 7. The arrest of Martons, tho Soviet Ambassador, has been ordered in connexion with tho disclosures of Soviet propaganda in tho TJnitod Statoa. ABOLITION OF TERRORISM. (Received Jnnuarv lfftli, 12.-15 a.m.) ItISVAL, January 7. nowspnpors assert that Lenin. Trotsky, nnd Tchitcherin aTo prepared to discontinue flio present terrorism nnd to abolish the Revolutionary Tribunals. AN ENCLTSHMAN'S FATE. (Received January 10fh, 1.30 a.m.) COPENHAGEN, January 7. Bolshevik newspapers stato that Mr Arthur Macpheraon, a well-known roemhor of the British Colony at Petrograd, has been killed by the Bolsheviks.