WAR AGAINST THE REDS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 241, 5 July 1919, Page 7

WAR AGAINST THE REDS

POLISH ARMY ALLOWED TO OCCUPY GALICIA ■ LITTLE CHANGE IN THE , RUSSIAN SITUATION By TelotrapU-Tfegfl AESociation-Oopyrigh* London, July 3. The Australian Press Agency learns that owing to Petloura (leader of the revolutionaries in the Ukraine) milking a 'compart with the Bolshevists against the Poles, and collecting ten thousand troops at Proskurov, the Peace Conference has allowed General Hal'.er's army to occupy Galicia' pending (be granting' of selfdetermination lo the people. ■The .Rumanians have informed, the Entente that they will not withdraw from.Hungary until Hungary carries out her engagements. - The situation in Russia generally is unchanged. .There is such unrest-in the lied Army that the leaders consider it dangerous to arm the newsy-mobilised men, aud are sending them lo the front without'rifles. AVeapons are issued after their arrival. General Deniken is now twenty miles beyond KbarkolV. He controls the mainland communication with the Crimea, which the Bolshevists are evacuating-. It is likely that Admiral Kolchak's southern, iiriny will soon effect .a junction with Deniken's troops—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. BOLSHEVISTS DRIVEN FROM ODESSA APTEIt A SANGUINARY BATTLE, (liec. July I, ]].:)5 p.m.) London, July 3. X Merlin telegram states thaj the Ukriuiian Hetman, Grigorieft', reports ■'that he captured Odessa, after a sanguinary battle, the Bolshevists Hoeing'in' disorder—Aus.-N./.. Cable Assn. ; .GERMAN LAnWeHR DEFEATED BY KSTHONIAN AN"]) LETTISH TROOPS. ' (Rec. July !, T.JO p.iii/i Copenhagen, June 30. The-Lettish Press Bureau states- that' tlie German Baltic Landwehr were three times defeated by the Esthonian and l.et■tiah troops last week, and practically destroyed.' The- Lettish .troops reached Jaegel, nine miles from Riga. The Germans are • evacuating Riga, where the Needra Ministry has been dissolved. The War Minister has been arrested. Needra fled to- Libau, where be was arrested, but scaped, and is now refuging with tho Imnerial German troops encamped si.v miles from Libau.—Henter.