BOLSHEVISM IN RUSSIA

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 80, 30 December 1918, Page 5

BOLSHEVISM IN RUSSIA

PRINCE LVOFF INTERVIEWED

IMMEDIATE INTERVENTION THE ONLY WAY

1 '' I ' 87 Telegraph-Press Association-Oopyrlsht Paris, December 27. On being interviewed, Prince Lyoif said the only solution of the Russian problem is the .immediate intervention of' the United States and Japanese armies. Unless tho Bolshevik! are conquered their insidious propaganda would again inevitably.' threaten the world's peace. Two hundred thousand men would be sufficient to put down the Boleheviki now, but three months later a. vastly larger force would be necessary. The Bolsheviki hold only the interior, and it is necessary to eject them from Petrograd and .Moscow. The downfall of Bolshevism•! would result in the institution of a Republican Government in Russia.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. . BOLSHEVIK RISING IN OMSK LEADERS ARRESTED AND. SHOT. New York, December 26. The correspondent 'of the New York "Times" at Washington says that advices received by | tho Russian Embassy reported an ■unsuccessful Bolshevik uprising against the All-Russian Government at Omsk, on December 22. Twelve Bolsheviki were court-martialled, and shot.—Aus.-JvY Cable Assn, ■ 1 ■; SEMEXv : ■■ WOUNDED. i New York, December 26 y The Peking correspondent of the New York "Times" states that dispatches from Chita (Siberia). say that; General Semenoif (anti-Bolshevik military leader at Omsk) was wounded in the leg at the theatre when a bomb was thrown.—Aus.N.Z. Cable A.ssn. ;. • AT, ODESSA {Rec. December 29,' 11.10 p.m.) 1 ' Odessa, December 28. French troops and friendly Russians ore fighting the Bolsheviki in the streets. There have been runny casualties.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. . THE BOLSHEVIK DEFEAT AT PERM ;' ! ' -BIG. HAUL' OF BOOTY. : (Rec. December 29, 5.5" p.m.) • 1 ' ■ New York, Deoember 27. The Ru6«jan Embassy-at Washington announces that dispatches received from thei All-Russian Government at Omsk say that the Siberian troops captured Perm on December_S4. More than eight hundred Bolsheviki were captured as'well ae guns and an qnormous quantity of ammuni-tion.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ' ' , ■ bolshevjk~navTlreverse

• BRITISH CAPTURE TWO DESTROYERS. ~ (Rec. December 29, 5,5 p.m. ) '■'mi. ' . / . , '■""'ton. December 28!' iThe Admiralty states that Captain Thesiger, commanding the Calypso, reports that he has captured two Bolshevik oestroyers, one of which was engaged in bombarding a lighthouse in the vicinity of Reval. The officers and men were taken prisoner.-Aus.'-N.Z. Cable Assn.- . Eeuter. . . ■ I THE BOLSHEVhTpEACE NOTE • VEILED. THREAT OP FUHTHER .;' TERRORISM.. (Rec. December 29, 5.5 p.m.) ti. ..r, ■." L ordon i December 27^ ■ei i\ , aliy News " correspondent at , Stockholm saya that M. Litvinoff, (the Eussian Bolshevik Government's envoy Y l ., London) has delivered a Note to the ■■ 1 ! 65, l . The t"' '"elude the definition ■ r of .frontiers, some form of compensation • ( • tor debts/ mining, concessions, guarantees' ; of nou-interference in the internal affairs ; of other countries, and trading facilities. - ,„.}•• Litvinoff also addressed President Wilson pointing out that the Red Teri Tor followed the intervention of the ■•■ Powers and was likely to recur with in- , cneased violence if intervention contirTied. Intervention could only end in a , .military dictatorship or a restored mon""oy. with girantic , slaughter .-Aus.-' ■ Is./. Cable Assn. . -

ALLIES' POLICY OF INTERVENTION SHARP GRITICISM IN PARIS PRESS. • (Rec. December 28, 3.30 p.m.) - mi. •■ ~ 'Paris, December 27. _~I " < J Pans Press sharply criticises M i J icnon 6 announcement that the Allies are unwilling to dispatch large forces to Russia. It is pointed out that the i-sthonians have been left defenceless against the Bolsheviki owing to the retreat of the Gcrmnn troops and the lat,ler carrying off suppliea.-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.- .. POLAND AND THE BOLSHEVIKI , ULTIMATUM TO GERMANY. • (Rec. December 29, 5.5' p.m.) ■ ■ Warsaw, December 28. The Polish Government has issued; an ultimatum to Germany demanding the right of passage for Polish troops over German-held railways to Velua, which is threatened by the Bolsheriki. The Gei> niang. have asked for an extension of time to reply to the ultimatum.—Reuter. ■ (Rec. December 29, 5.5 p.m.) . : London, December 28. A Russian wireless 'report states that the Bolsheviki disarmed the .Government's militia in the district of Tpniashaov, in A regular battle' occurred between the Bolsheviki and Polish troops in the district .of Donibrova.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.-Eeuter.

THEjEX-TSAR . ■ . ASSERTED TO BE STILL ALIVE. New York, December 27. Michael Tehikachef,'a nephow of General Skoropadski, has strenuously asserted to an American correspondent at Warsaw that the ex-Tsar ofßussia and his family are still alive. Tchilmt:hef, who recently escaped, from the Ukraine, alleges that the Allied Governments arts aware of the whereabouts of the Eomanoffs. The 'Bolsheriki had executed Talichef, tho Tsar's personal aide-de-camp, and gave out for propaganda purposes a report that they had executed the Tsar: Documents describing . the Tsar's escape, were in the po'aenion ot the German 'Consul at Petrngrad, who would forward them to Berlin.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Aesn..