THE BOLSHEVJKI
DENOUNCED BY PATRIACH OF ALL RUSSIA FORCED THE COUNTRY INTO FRATRICIDAL STRIFE fly Telecraph-Press 'Aesociatlon-OopyTiitlit Copenhagen, January 26. The Patriarch of All Russia has issued a scathing denunciation of the Bolsheviki. Taking as his text "All they that take (he''sword shall perish with the sword," he declared that the Bolsheviki had forced the country into unheard-of fratricidal strife. All live in terror of inquisition, plunder, xapine, imprisonment, and death. Hundreds , of defenceless innocents have been made to rot for months in dungeons or die on the scaffold without trial. Bishops, priests, and nuns have been slaughtered on vague charges. The counter-revolutionary actions of the Bolsheviki have taught the ignorant masses that open,- barefaced robbery and famine menace the towns and villages.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. FINNISH VOLUiNTEEIiS' CAPTURE NARVA BOLSHEVIK! ADVANCING ON . LII3AU. Copenhagsn, January 26. Finnish volunteers have captured Narva (100 miles west of Petrograd, and near the coast of the Gulf of Finland). The Red Guards plundered the city befoip it was taken, and murdered the bourgeoisie who could not escape. They also killed the entire population of neighbouring villages, owing to their inability to pay the heavy taxes they imposed. The Bolsheviki are now advancing upon Libau, which a British squadron has decided to defend.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
FIGHTING ON NORTHERN FRONT THE WITHDRAWAL OP THE ALLIED. TROOPS. London, January 27. A British official report from Northern Russia states: The Bolsheviki exacted continued pressure on the Slienkursk front. Considerable forces attacked on January 22 and 23, after a , three days' bombardment. Our forces, consisting principally of Americans and Russians, withdrew to the Slienkursk defences to avoid being outflanked by superior numbers. Later they evacuated the town and tho defences, taking up a shorter line to the northward—Aus.-N.55. Cable Assn. BOLSHEVIKI DRIVEN BACK. Washington, January 28. British nnd American troops drove Off the Bolshevik! in a battle on tho TulsrasDwina River front.—Aus.-N.Z. Circle Assn. FIGHTING IN SIBERIA ANGLO-FRENCH FORCE TO' BE SENT. (Rec. January 29, 8.45 p.m.) Now York, January 27. Dispatches from Omsk state that a small Anglo-French force will be sent to uiil General Diitoft', who is holding Old- , enburj? against superior Bolshevik forces, Other messages report that the Boleheriki have captured Ufa.—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn. WAR PRISONERS COMMISSION LEAVES AUSTRIA UNDER PRESSURE. • (Rec. January 29, 10.50 p.m.) Amsterdam, January 28. A Vienna message states that under pressure from tho authorities tho Russion War Prisoners Commission, which recently has been mostly occupied in disseminating Bolshevist propaganda, has left the country. Some of the leaders were arrested in Prague and Budapest, at the wtiucst of the commanders of tho Entente troops.—Router.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 107, 30 January 1919, Page 5
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