THE THROES OP CIVIL ' WAR

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 244, 9 July 1919, Page 7

THE THROES OP CIVIL ' WAR

' PEN-PICTURE FROM KOLCBAK'S FRONT RAVAGES OF TYPHUS (By Telcgraph-Frcsß Aesociation-CopyrieM London, July' i. Mr. Wilton, who traversed Kolchak's front and joined fleaiken's armies, telegraphs; "This civil war is terrible— typhus-stricken and replsto with wounds and death. Yet, unlike ether wars, there are no trenches aud no front line. The opposing forces hold villages from where they throw out pickets periodically,-, attempting to capture other villages; maybe miles away. The white forces show sterling spirit, both Christians and Moslems. The whole population of the Urals districts demanded to 1)6 mobilised to protect their families from Bokhevik reprisals. I Wlmt they need are shirts to give them a chance of escaping typhus, which is (illing the ho?pitais quicker thar wounds."—"Tho Times."

GERMANS AND KSTHONIANS j AN ARMISTICE SIGNED. *' \ Coponhaijsn, July i. As tho result of Allied mediation, an ; armistice between the Ksthouians and the •; German troops was, signed at Riga on : July. 3. It provides that the German j troops shall evacuate Letthnd quickly, and that both the Imp'rial German ) troops and the Baltic Landeswehr shall 'j leave Riga by July s.—ltau-sr. ■; THE CAPTURE OF PETROGRAD } PREVENTED BY DIPLOMATISTS IN -I PARIS. ■ ' ■ London, July 4. The Helsingfors correspondent of'"The Times" states that the diplomats in Paris ( alono prevent tho capture of Perjograd. ; The reason is obscure, but •uiless it is taken in two months it. will be too late ' ; to avoid another terrible winter of star- , ■ vation.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.