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BRITISH POLICY IN RUSSIA

AN EARLY WITHDRAWAL NEW ARMY OF RUSSIA DEVELOPING KOLTCHAK FORCING A i DECISION By Telegraph-Press Assoctatlon-OopyrteW (Rec. May 12, 8.45 p.m.) London, May 6 (delayed). Great Britain intends to withdraw all her forces from North Russia at the earliest opjwrtunity. The recent reinforcements signed for one year's service. The Russian Army is growing, aud training under British officers. It is expected that when the British withdraw a. 6uffioient,Russian forco will have been established for the defence of the population. Several thousand British troops have , been retained in the Caucasus region to • keep order. They will act under the Leaguo of Nations' if the latter requires a force there. Britain has no intention of being drawn into internal disputes in the Caucasus. The :Bolshevists everywhere m Russia ; are displaying great military weakening. Admiral Koltehak, who may be termed the "Beatty of Russia," has by his sweepin;; victories lessened the Bolshevik power, and dramatic events may be expected soon, preparing the way for a united country .-Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn. ALLIED MUSTEr¥"hELSINGFORS REPORTED PLANS TO ATTACKPETROGRAD. (Rec. May 12, 10.15 p.m.) London, May 11. A message from Helsingfors reports that the Entente Powers are preparing for military operations, with Helsingfors as the base.. Foreigners have been ordered to-leave at short notice/ Fifty thousand troops are assembling with the reported object of attacKiflg Petrograd. Fronoh cruisers are lying off HelsingforSj and twenty British shipsaro expected.—AU6.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ALLIED SUCCESSIN~NORTH RUSSIA London, May 8. An official telegram states that troops in Murmansk captured Mcselskaya on the railway, twenty-five miles to the south of Uroso&ero, after .'a strong re-sistance.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ANOTHER BOLSHEVIK DEFEAT.(Rec May 12, 8 p.m.) London, May 10. Advices from Novorossik state that Kuban Cossacks, headed the cavalry trader Genoral Sofcuvb, and destroyed .the Bolshevik forces on General Deniken'e flank, capturing Mariopol, on the Sea of Azof, and taking six thousand prisoners. General Deniken, vastly outnumbered, is still holding his own with his back to ' the wall.—United Service. , STATiIEN?BY LENIN Stockholm, May.G.(delayed). A speech by Lenin has been placarded throughout Petrogiad, in which 'he declared that tho Bolsheviks had performed half their task of ..securing .victory over the bourgeoisie. The more difficult half was only beginning. The world revolution depended upon Bolshevik victory over Imperialism. The Bolsheviks were resorting to every means of mobilisation, but the results were most unsatisfactory. The regiments proceeding to the front were barely 600 strong, and half of them deserted en route.—Reuter. PRO-SOVIET YOTeTn AUSTRALIA AT EAILWAYMEN'S CONGRESS. Melbourne, May 12. The annual" conference of the Victorian Railwaynion's Union carried a resolution affirming faith in the Russian Soviet Republic as a means to achieve tho aims of true democracy, and opposing any movement menacing its continuance.— Press Assn.

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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 195, 13 May 1919, Page 5

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BRITISH POLICY IN RUSSIA Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 195, 13 May 1919, Page 5

BRITISH POLICY IN RUSSIA Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 195, 13 May 1919, Page 5

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