BOLSHEVIK DEFEAT AT PERM

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 85, 4 January 1919, Page 7

BOLSHEVIK DEFEAT AT PERM

GAIDA'S CZECHO-SLOVAKS TAKE 30,000 PRISONERS NARROW ESCAPE OF LENIN • ■' ■ ■'~.; By Teleeraph-Press Association-Oopyrlfht Vladivostok, Joriuary i. General Gaida, head- of the Czechoslovaks, has captured Perm, destroying the Bolshevik' army and' taking thirty thousand,prispners. General Gaida captured an armoured train from which Lenin barely succeeded in escaping, and several of hia party were taken prisoner. Hundreds of machine-guns and much light' artillery were captured.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. . . . ■ - ALLIED ADVANCE IN NORTH '■•'.. RUSSIA. ; New York, January 1. Dispatches' from Archangel state that American troops have captured the village of Kadish on the northern Russian front, and advanced'the lines two miles.. Allied troops' have advanced fourteen miles along the road to the Onega River and captured more than twelve villages/ and are still advancing.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable AssW ■■•;..'".' POLISH INVASION OF GERMANY London, January 1. Polish troops are reported to be advancing froni Pbsen, and have entered Frankfort-on-Oder. —Aus.-N.Z-. Cable Assn, •■ [Frimkfort-on-Oder is 100 miles west of Posen, in Eastern Germany, and is 50 miles:east, of Berlin.] .. INVASION WILL BE RESISTED. • , New York, January 1. The Rotterdam correspondent of the New York "Times" says he learns on j excellent authority that the new German Government will organise a volunteer army of veterans,, who will be eent to the eastern frontier to fight the Poles. Herr Noske. (Minister of Army and Navy) announced that the Government will not allow the Poles, to invade German territory.—Aus.-N.Z; Cable Assn. .. THE CASE FOR INTERVENTION ■-■ RUSSIA FACING STARVATION. (Rec. January 3, '7.i5 p.m.) Stockholm,-January 1. ; Herr Brantihg's paper, the "Social Democraten," ' advocates intervention , against Bolshevism: in -Russia because' the almost total stoppage of industrial and agricultural activity is condemning the Russian people to starvation and' death. The present regime no longer represents ' any vital revolutionary force,. 'but is'supported only by bayonets.—Aus.N.Z.. Cable Aesh.,' Washington, January 2. -Speaking in the Senate, 'Senator John; ■fiton protested against the further shedding of American blood in Russia. The United States, he said,, had no business to interfere there.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.