RUSSIAN REDS DEFEATED

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 185, 1 May 1919, Page 5

RUSSIAN REDS DEFEATED

- ■ - - ' \ HEAVY FIGHTING IN NORTH RUSSIA ENEMY'S TORPEDO CRAFT SEIZED GENERAL RETIREMENT By Tcleeraph-Press Aseoctatian-Copyrlß'ftt, Loncjon, April 29.' Stockholm' messages state that the British at. Sheheiikylos heavily defeated a Bolshevist effort to rush' -reinforcements to'Oloiißfe. The , ■Bolshevists aro now speedily retiring along'the l Onega J(iver, to' prevent being- trapped. Other Finnish forces- have reached tne JMurmau railway junction at Ladeinoi Polio and captured tlie Bolsheviks' ice-bound torpedo flotilla. Others are advancing on Petrovodsk. The wholo of the western portion of the Olonete province has now been cleared. Russian messages indicate that the Bolshevists, are suffering defeat on" all fronts and are retreating pell-mell between the .Arctic and- the Caspian- Seas, after unsuccessfully attempting'-'to make' a stand to the eastward of Kazan. The Poles'continue to advance 'frani "Viliia. The British success in the White: Sea region has isolated the-Bolshevist force in dole's, which the Kims captured'. Uneasiness prevails thronghouj the Soviet territories, where peasant risings are reported.

A German wireless message, states: that ; tho Eastern Karelian peasants,' supported by Finnish- volunteers, have captured Olonets, taking, prisoner eix hundred 80l- ' 0 shoyiki. The Karelians have established . a Provisional Government at Olonets until the National Assembly ineets to" determine the future constitution on a, basis, of self-determination.— Au3.-N.Z> . Cable Assn. - , FRESH REVERSES. . ' (Rec. April 30,10 p.m.) ' London, April 29, ' Official dispatches from Warsaw, report \ that an anti-Bolshevik offensive has dpeiw ' ed, with good results. Vilna, with the towns of Lida, Novogrodek, and Barano- • vichi to the southward, have been -captured, iwith 2000 prisoners—Auß.-N.Z, i Cable Assn. . ' . V',.; , (Reo. May 1, 1.15 ' a.m.J'-V , ' . , ,v' London, April 29, A Ukrainian official Teport states:— "Tho Bolshevik army operating in the region of Cornel, consisting mainly o£ peasants, surrendered with 20,(100.rifles, 200 nyiehino-guns, and 35 field' giins. ' Many of the prisoners offered to join the , ~ .Ukrainians. There is fighting against V. the fiolsheviki in tho Zitomir dstret:— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. . : . /•' NEW. GOVERNMENT AT LIBAU' . (Rec. April 30, 5.5 p'.m.) ' London, April 29. Advices from libau state that a new . Government has been formed, composed of six Letts, and four Germans, with the<*: • ; Eev. M. Needrn as Premier. Jews and - : workmen-nre not'represented in the Goternment.—Reuter. GRAND DUKeIJOLAS AT GENOA . . Milan, April 29, ■ • •The Grand Duke Nicholas, who with' his 'family has. .been a prisoner in the , "■ Crimea since 1917, suffering- the.greatest indignities and the most severe hardships, ■ arrived at , Genoa on April 23.—Aus.-N.Z.-Cable Assn. ' ■' : "-';. : '-"