TRUCULENT GERMAN GENERAL

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 270, 11 August 1919, Page 5

TRUCULENT GERMAN GENERAL

. DEFIES ALLIES NOTICE TO QUIT TROUBLE OVER THE BALTIC PROVINCES Bj Telegraph-Press AssomUon-CoDrriglH (Eee. August !), 9.5 p.m.) London, August 6. General Gough, who is representing the Allios at Libin, has had several stormy interviews with General von tier Goltz owing to the failure of the German troops to evacuate Latvia in accordance with Marshal Foch's demand. The Germans continue their intrigues with tho Baltic land barons, offering Gorman volunteers for grants of land. Thus a considerable German force remains at. Latvia. The Supreme Allied Council has sent an ultimatum to tlie Germans that they must evacuate by August 20.-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. A FLAT REFUSAL. (Rec. August 10, 5.5 p.m.) London, August 6. Rumania's defiance of tho Allies' authority in the Hungarian situation hair strengthened the resistance of von deiGoltz, who flatly declines to obev tho Allied plans and evacuate the Baltic provinces by August 20—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

RUSSIAN NORTHERN ARM'/ IN RETREAT (Rec. August 10, 5.5 p.m.) London, August 8. An Esthonian communique states that the Russian north-west army, under Bolshevik pressure, continues to retreat on the Esthonian frontier. The Bolshevists now threaten Yambnrh,—Router. POLES OCCUPY MINSK. (Rec. August 10, 11.5 p.m.) Copenhagen, August 8. The Poles have occupied Minsk.—Aus.N.Z. Cable'Assn. TRAFFIC lIOLD-UP ON TRANS- ' SIBERIAN LINE. (Bee. August 10, 5.5 p.m.) Now York, August 7. A dispatch from Peking states that all traffic on the trans-Siberian railroad is tied up, owing to the employees striking. The employees demajid payment in tho old currency instead of m Siberian notes.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

SECRET MUBDSB LEAGUE (Rec. August JO, 11.5 p.m.) Copenhagen, August 8. An investigation of ArdnsjefTs murder revenls tho existence of an international league for the re-establishment of the Russian monarchy. The league killed Kttinger, a former Russian naval officer, and Lehrs, an American subject, for tho alleged.murder of four people. A sccret committee of tho lesiguo the vic 7 tuns—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.