KOITCHAK'S MARCH TO MOSCOW

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 179, 24 April 1919, Page 5

KOITCHAK'S MARCH TO MOSCOW

RAPID ADVANCE

REDS OUTMANOEUVRED

By Teleerarh-Prcss Asecciatlon-Copirielit

Omsk, April 18. General Koltchak has eaptuml StilHtamak, rendering the Bolshevik position critical on the Urensburg front and cutting off the entire Bolshevik i*ouv. Where possible the Red Guards are precipitately retreating, while the Chinese, Magyar, and Lettish Mercenaries, whoso retreat is blocked, are standing desperately. The Sonet Commissaries have deserted the troops and are rushing for safety beyond the Volga while tho ice holds. General Koltchak's rapid advance was possible owing to the plenitude of his reserves and supplies. The Bolsheviks lost hundreds of guns and ten thousand prisoners, while a. number were killed. The greater advance has now reached a point 100 niilca from tho Volga. Optimists predict the complete collapse of the Bolsheviki, and believe that Moscow will be reached in two months.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

SUPPLIES FOR KOLTCHAK. New York, April 22. The New York "World's" Washington correspondent states that when the Allies and the United States leeoguwe the Omsk Government, General Koltchak will be furnished with all the military equipment he is able to utilise against the Bolsheviks.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Aesn.

NEAR LAKE ONEGA. •London, April 22. The Russians have readied within etriking distance of Lake Onega. 1 IMPORTANT GAINS BY THE BRITISH FIGHTING IN NORTH SUSSIA. (Res. April l>3, 10 p.in.) London, April 22. An olhcinl report from British Headquarters in North Russia states :-"Rns.vian troops under General Mnynard successlully l attacked Vojmosalnii, at the south-eastern end of Lake Vigozero, on Aptil 17. The occupation of this poinf Will give thi> Allies complete control of Lake Vigozero and the main road from thj south to the "White Sm.-Aus.N.Z. Uaile Assn.-Router.

BOLSHEVISTDEFEATON THE DNEISTER (Rec. April 23, 11.10 p.m.) ~ Paris, April 20. Reports Bucharest state that a sanguinary fight occurred betwen Rumanian troops and the Bolshevist forces on the east bank of the Dniester, near the Bessarabian frontier, and resulted in the total defeat of the Bolshevist?, many of whom were killed, and several hundred wounded.—Renter. REVOLUTIONARY COUP IN BALTIC 'PROVINCES LETTISH GOVERNMENT OVERTHROWN. Amsterdam, April 18. Adviceß have been received stating that the Lettish Government lias been .overthrown by troops of the levy of the Russian people which returned to Libau from the front. The .Prime Minister and the British Commissioner escaped, but the Minister.- for tho Interior was arrested.— Aus.-A'.Z. Cable Assn.

; A GERMAN INTRIGUE. DETAILS OP THE PLOT. London, April 18. Tho "Daily Telograph's" Copenhagencorrespondent states that the. Lettish legation has been informed of a serious and long-prepared German plot at Libau. Tho German troops of occupation penetrated the barracks, greatly outnumbering the Lettish garrison, whom they disarmed; and they also killed and' wounded some Lettish troops. . Tho Premier, Ulmann, on learning of the attack, went to Von der Goltz, , tho German commander, who pretended to be greatly surprised. Tho Germans subsequently arrested the Lettish Home Secretary, Walther, and removed all >the Lettish Guards outeide the Government Buildings. The German Guards occupied all the positions in the town, and German civilians spread the rumour' that the Lettish troops' had revolted. This the Lettish Government characterised as an infamous lie. The ringleader of the plot is the German Baltic Baron Manteuffel. Baron Manteuffel's mauagor, Zimmerman,' left Libiun for Eiga to start a similar rebellion there and at Eeval. The Lettish Government learns that a' lawyer, co-operating- with the Germans, has drawn up a constitution for a new Baltic State under German rule. A subsequent telegram says that the Germane at Libau demand one-third of the offices in the new Lettish Ministry, but tho existing Lettisli Government refuses oil agreements with the Germans. The latter had profited by the absence of the British Military Mission, which had temporarily left Libau for Kovno. The mission has now returned and British warships ore anchored off Libau. It is hoped thnt the Lettish Gorernmont will be able to master tho situation.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Aara,

LEAUBKS , HESITATING. Copenhagen, April 18. The chief ringleaders of the Libau plot are hesitating and havd begun to return arms to the Lettish Government troops, whom they had intorned, — Au.s.-N,Z. Cable Assn. MILITARY INTRIGUE SCOTCHED GERMANS MUST NOT SERVE ABROAD. (Rec. April 23,'9.5 p.m.) Paris, April 22. Iμ consequence of the fact that many Gcrmnn officers are sorvingMvith the Bolshevist army, a clause irill be inserted in tho military terms of the Peace Treaty forbidding Gerninn military missions abroad for tho purpose of training foreign avmles.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ■RE.US LOSE VIL.VA. Washington, April 22. ,A Russian wireless message states that the Boleheviki have lost Vilna.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. , . SATURNALIA AT RIGA. Reo. April 23, 11.10 p.m.) Amsterdam, April 19. During the montli of April one thousand people were shot in Riga.—Ans.-N.Z. Cablo Absd. RUSSIAN IMPERIAL REFUGEES ' SAFE ARRIVAL AT PRINCES ISLANDS. (Reo. April 23, 8 p.m.) ■ Constantinople, April 20. Tho Dowager Empress of Russia, the Grand Diiko Nicholas, nnd other, members of tho Russian Imperial family, have arrived at Prinkipo (Princes Islands) from Yalta, on board a British warship. The Dowager Empress will shortly proceed to England, en route to Copenhagen, A_ number of British arid otter Allied subjects, with many Russians, were taken from Yalta in British vessels.-Reuter.