WITHIN A FEW MILES OF PETROGRAD

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 199, 17 May 1919, Page 7

WITHIN A FEW MILES OF PETROGRAD

MANNERHEI'S FINNISH ARMY

BOLSHEVIST LEADERS DEPART By ToloEraph-Pross Association-Copyright (Em. May 10, Y. 15 p.m.) Copenhagen, May 11. General Mannerlieim's army is within a few miles of Petrograd, where panic prevails. The Bolshevist leaders have do. parted, and tlife Bolshevist troops in North Russia are preparing to retreat.--Aus.-N.Z.. Cable Assn. STATEMENT BY BOLSHEVIK MINISTER "GEOWINGLY SUCCESSFUL ' STRUGGLE." I (Rcc. May 1(5, 8.30 p.m.) Paris, May 13. A Russian wireless message stales that M. 'I'chicherin expresses the willingness of the Soviets to receive rerictualling supplies, but decline to accept them asw condition precedent to the cessation of hostilities. 11. Tchieherin declares that the Bolshevists will not bo dnped by a uiixture of humanitarianism with politics, but must sustain, the growingly successful straggle alii*: with Admiral Kolchak, General Denikin, the White Guards, and the Entente , troops.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. DREADFUL STORY FROM MOSCOW FOUR THOUSAND DEAD IN THE ■ ■ STREETS. (Rec. May 16, 8.30 p.m.) The Hague, May 13. Polish uowspapers etate that the corpses of four-thousand, people, shot by the Red Guards in' Moscow during the hunger riots, remained in the streets for several .days until .the. "intellectuals" were harnessed to carts and compelled to remove them. Those refusing this work were shot—United Service.