FIGHTING IN NORTH RUSSIA

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 200, 19 May 1919, Page 5

FIGHTING IN NORTH RUSSIA

BOLSHEVIK ATTACK DEFEATED KOLCHAK CAPTURES SAMARA by Teloffraph-ProBS Association- Copyright London, May 9 (delayed). General Ironside reports that the Bol* sheyists heavily bombajded the British positions on the river Vaga and attempts ed two infantry attacks, : both of which were firoken. up, ■ • v ; General Maynard reports that he has cleared the. Bplshovists out, of all-the villages around Lake. Segozero.—Aus-.-N.Z. Cable Assn. x BRITISH OFFICIAL REPORT. (Rec. May 18, 11 pjn.) ■ . London, .May 17.Official advices from North Buesia state that the Bolsheviki attacked General Maynai'd's positions at Lake Segonevo. "Our counter-attack on both flanks was carried out -with great daah. The enemy fled southward, leaving fifty dead.''—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Asm. .-' THEOFpsivWPETRfIGRAD AiIERICA WILL NOT PARTICIPATE. (Rec- May 18, s.s:p.m'J ■.•■,■■■• Paris, May 17. America will not narticipate-in any offensive towards Petrograd.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. . IN THE BALTICPROVINCES BOLSHEVISTS ABANDON RIGA. Copenhagen. May 16. The Bolshevist have, retaken Narva, and the Estonians are retreating. Since tho Bolshevists abandoned Riga, owing_ to lack of food, tbe plight of tho starving inhabitants has been terribly aggravated, —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ...

CALLOUS BARBARITY. . London, May !) (delayed). The Australian Press learne by message's frdnivKiga of tho desperate situation , The Bolshvists, who are treating the f civilians with horrible cruelty, placed 30,000 women and children on a barren island in the river. No arrangements were made to feed these unfortunate people, who are starving.—Aus.fflZ. CaMd Assn.

KOLCHAK'S ADVANCE CAPTURE OF SAMARA Paris, May 16. General Kolchak has captured Snniara, on the left bank of the Volga, 650 miles fo tho south-east of Moscow.—Aue.-N.Z. Cable Assn. RED COLLAPSE IN SIGHT; Tokio, May 9. Japanese correspondents at Omsk report that the "Reds" are retreating'and the Soviot commissaries are deserting. The Chinese, Lettish, and Magyar mercenaries are resisting desperately, biit tho other forces are melting away. A Bolshevist collapse is foreshadowed. General Kolchak expects to reach Moscow in three months.—Aus.-N.Z.' Cable Aesn. A GHASTLY CRIME REVEALED BY A GRAVE-DIGGER. (Rcc. May IS, 5.5 p.m.) London, May 8 (delayed). Advices from Ekiiterinodar, in the Kuban province of Ciscaucasia, state that a grave-digger at Paitigorsk, whore goner, als and ex-Ministers, including Russky and pomitrieff, were massasred during the Bolshevik regime, narrated how he was awakened at midnight by Red Guards carrying naked swords, and ordered to accompany them to a largo grave, where thirty-live prisoners, old and .young, wero ordered to bare their necks and kneel. The loader commanded his followers to begin from tho left, and five of the Red Guards proceeded to carry out the- execution in a leisurely manner, like butchers chopping meat, oflen missing tho neck and slashing the face. Some of (lie victims fell outside the grave, 'and wore kicked in. When the work was'Tmishrd the Red Guards lit cigarettes, and laughed and iesled. while groans wcro audililo beneath the earth as the grave was filled. Another thirty victims worn treated in a similar fashion an hour later.—Router.