THE BALTIC BATTLE
ILL-STARRED BOLSHEVIK NAVAL SORTIE BIG ROUND-UP BY DENIKIN _ By Telefrrapli-Press Association—Copyright London, May 19. The naval engagement in the Baltic lasted thirty-five minutes. One of the cleaning enemy ships ran ashore.—Aus.- '. N.Z. Cable Assn. Copenhagen, Hay 19. Five Bolshevik cruisers bffifab'afded tho Finnish coast. Three British "light cruisers came up'ami .sank one cf.j:he Bolshevik vessels, and almost the'wholo ofthe crew were drowned. Tho rest of the Bolshevik snips fled to Kronstadt —Aus.N.Z. Cable A'jiu. "REDS" USINGIoiSON GAS:,■-.; RETALIATORY MEASURES IN TRAIN. London, May. 19., In tho House of Commons Captain Guest slated that tho Bolsheviki have . adopted poison gas on the North Russian front. We were preparing to re-taliate.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assu. ■i'..~- ; DIUVING THE REDS. (Kcc. May 20, 5.5 p.m.) New York, May 12 (delayed), ,: Dispatches from Archangel stats ,/tnat >■ the Allied forces in Murmansk are driving the . Bolshevists southward.—Aus.-, N.Z. Cable Assn, DENIKifTSMANCE BIG HAUL OP PRISONERS AND BOOTY. . London, May '19. Official: General Denikin is personally conducting tho operations at Tsaxitsin. . (on the Volga), and has already captured 10,000 prisoners, 28 guns, and 120 machine-, guns.—Ans.-N.Z. Cable Assn. FRIGHTFUL TERRORISM AT RIGA i Copenhagen, May 12 (delayed). Tho Bolslieviki are exercising a frightful reign of terror at Riga, and aro murdering many people without sentences. Tho "Reds" carry off their victims in motors at night and slaughter them in tho suburbs, and countenanca wholesale plundering. An epidemic is raging, including smallpox, black plague, and spotted typhus, and the death-roll is heavy. There is great shortage.of medi< cine and doctors.— Cable Ass»-
j HUNGER TOLL IN PETEOGEAD. Stockholm, May 12 (delayed). It is reported 1 that 30,000 people a-rd,. dying" of starvation every week in Petro-grad.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. .
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 202, 21 May 1919, Page 7
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282THE BALTIC BATTLE Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 202, 21 May 1919, Page 7
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