FIERCE FIGHTING IN RUSSIA

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 141, 10 March 1919, Page 5

FIERCE FIGHTING IN RUSSIA

PROLONGED BATTLE ON ARCHANGEL FRONT ENEMY WITHDRAWING By Tolesrapii—Press Association—Copyright London, March 7. Bolshevik forces reattacked 011 Iho Archangel front on the March 1. After a heavy bombardment of the Riga sector they captured the village of Ycvseiwskaya, from which the Allies, after a day-long and night-long resistance, withdrew about a mile alter inflicting heavy casualties on the enemy. Allied blockhouses and a village were burned out during tho fighting on the Murmansk front. Tho Allies inflicted heavy casualties on the Bolshuvilti, of whom three leading commanders were killed. _ . The enemy is now withdrawing.—Reuter. HEAVY FIGHTING IN THE RIGA REGION. London, March 7. Heavy fighting on tho shores of Iho Gulf of Riga is reported. German troops have retaken Windau from the Bol-siieviki.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. situatiopTsuhmed up

Copenhagen, March 7. The situation in Russia is at present as follows:—In the Northern Urals the Siberian troops are continuing their successful movement 60uth-\vest of Kungur and south of tho Vietmka-Perm railway and are advancing on Sarapol, in the Southern Urals. The Siberian taroppg have occupied Nikolskoe, fifty-two miles east by south of Birsk. General DutoS's Cossacks have cut the Tashked-Orenburgr ailway. The Bolshevik forces in the above regions are estimated at a thousand. They are well disciplined. A Red Force of 7000 men, with artillery, is crossing the Bug and advancing towards Odessa. Franco-Polish troops have completely occupied the Bender-Tiraspol-Odessa railway, inflicting severe losses qn the Bolsheviks.—Reuter. TERRIBLE POGROMS , Stockholm, March 7. The Vienna. "Yiddischo Morgenport" reports terrible pogroms in East Galicia and the Ukraine.. Pout hundred families at Proskurow were killed.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. A RED ANNIVERSARY BOMBASTIC PROPHECY. (Rec. March 9, 5.6' p.m.) Helsingfors, March 7. Advices state that Petrograd was decorated and illuminated on the anniversary of the assassination of the exTsar. Thirty thousand Red Guards paraded at the Winter Palace, when 31. Zinovieff bombastically declared that the Red Army was destined to fight not only in Russia, but in the streets of London, Paris, and Rome. 1 It is stated that two Bolshevist propagandists have left Moscow with orders to create a base in Spain, and then blow up the EiiTel Tower while the Peace Conference is sitting. A Petrograd message asserts that the Bolshevists' spent five million sterling on stirring up trouble in Ireland.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.