THE RUSSIAN CHAOS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 124, 19 February 1919, Page 7

THE RUSSIAN CHAOS

ALLIED ARMY IN THE NORTH

AMERICANS TO BE WITHDRAWN IN SPRING

Washington, February 17.

It ia announced by the Secretary for War (Mr. K. D. Baker) titat the Americans will be withdrawn from Northern Russia in the spring. At present th-3 force !s not in danger. Reinforcements will be dispatched to facilitate the with-drawal,—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. . BOLSHEVIK! WITHDRAW FROM . . , ' WINDAU. (Rec. February 18, 8 p.m.)Berne, February 16. The "Hamburger Jfremdenblatt" states {bat the Bolslieviki have deserted Windau owing to the bombardment by British warships.—Keuter. THE POLES~AND~UKRAINfANS EFFORT TO ARRANGE AN AE-MIS- , ... .. TICK' (Rec. February 18, 8 p.m.) »' Warsaw, February 16. ■ Inter-Allied Commissions are sending .ati Allied delegation, including a British general, to Lembcrg, to endeavour to arrange an armistice between the Poles and tho Ukrainians. Tho Poles, with only three thousand regular troops and a few guns, are defending Lemberg valiantly against the Ukrainians, who are well equipped with Austrian artillery. Polish women and children are participating in the fighting, and many Polish soldiers are without greatcoats, though forty-two degrees of frost have been registered.—Reuter.

ADVANCE OF DENIKIN'S ARMY

BOLSHEVIK ARMY'S TRANSPORT COT. ■ (Rec. February 18, 7.30 p.m.) Constantinopie, February IC. The advance of General Denekin's army along the Stavropol-Baku railway seems to have paralysed all opposition. He is expected momentarily to reach Petroush, thus establishing a solid front between tho Caspian Sea. and the Black Sea. Since February 3ho has taken 21,000 prisoners, exclusive of thousands of sick and wounded. The captures includo 267 guns. The whole success is due to tho Bolshevik army's transport being cut off. Tho Cossacks havo cut the enemy's..' communications between Tashkend and Orenburg, and compelled the Ural Cossaoks to fall back to Gnriev, on tho north coast of the Caspian Sea, which. General Tolstoft' is holding.—"The Times."