RUSSIAN BOLSHEVIKI

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 135, 3 March 1919, Page 5

RUSSIAN BOLSHEVIKI

MILITARY PLANS FOR 1919

REVEALED IN CAPTURED DOCUMENTS By Telegraph-Press Aasociation-Copyrisht London, February 27. The Australian Press Association learns .that a captured document reveals the plans of the Russian Military Commission at Moscow for 1919. Recent Bolnhevik attacks show that these plans were carried out more or less successfully on several Russian, fronts, particularly in the Ukraine, though the plans for Esthonia and the Northern Cauoasus have thus far failed. Evidence is accumulating that the Bolshevik forces are.massing on the Archangel front, while on the Murmansk front the enemy has retired twenty miles, blowing' up a large quantity of stores. The Esthonians captured Arensburg, on Oesel Island. The Bolshevril definitely possess Kieff. Petlnra's force consists of about 40,000, but only 10,000 remain loyal.. Bolshevik forces are threatening the Isthmus of Perekop, giving access to the Crimea. The operations north of the Caucasus.have-ended in the defeat of the Bolshoviki. Forty thousand have been taken prisoner. Unimpeachable evidence has been obtained of wholesale atrocities committed by the Bolsheviki when they occupied Perm and Ekaterinburg.—Aus.< N.Z, Cable Assn.

New York, February 27. Dispatches from London state that the . Germans have captured Libau-and Windan from the Bolsheviki. French, Rumanian, and Greek troops are advanoing along the Dniester. The Bolsheviki are - fleeing fifty-three miles north of Odessa —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. - : ON THE NoSeRN FRONT BOLSHEVIK COUNTER-ATTACKS. FAIL. < . (Rec. March 2, 5.5 p.m.) New York, February 28. Dispatches from Archangel state that strong counter-attacks by the Bolsheviki against the positions newly gained by the 'Allies on the Murmansk front failed, heavy losses'' being inflicted on the 801/. / . sheviki.-Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn. i . MILLIONS OF RMS STARVING BUT BOLSHEVIK ARMY WELL PED AND EQUIPPED. (Rec. March 2. 5.5 p.m.) New York, February 28.In an interview Dr. Cresson, Director of the French Medical Organisation in ftnssia, said that though millions of Russians were actually starving, the Bol-shevik-army had grown from a feeble body to more than a million well-fed and equipped men, officered by the best, soldiers of the old regime, with German drill-masters. The Bolshevist regime had ' lieen able to care for the army by stripping the country of available supplies.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. :'. REVOLUTIONARIES 7 PLOT FAILS 'ATTEMPT TO SEIZE LENIN AND OTHER BOLSHEVIK CHIEFS. (Eec. March 2, 5.5 p.m.) Copenhagen, February 2G. A Helsingfors telegram - reports that fifty leaders, including Kanokeff and Marie Spiridonova, have been arrested in connection with a plot hatched by tho revolutionaries who seceded from the Bolsheviki, supported by many sailors, to seize .Lenin and other Bolshevik chiefs assembled in Moscow. Tho plotters secured admittance to the Kremlin while, the Government was sitting, but their plans failed.-"The Times." BRITISH lUISSTON"TO SIBERIA (Rec. March 2, 5.5 p.m.) London, March 1. The. Press Bureau 'states that a British Mission will shortly proceed to Siberia to-investigate^the.damage resulting from enemy occupation, and to ascertain the extent of reconstruction necessary and the materials required. The mission will also examine the general and economic conditions and the prospects for British.trade development—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-Reuter. .-■■''