DENIKIN'S MARCH

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 281, 23 August 1919, Page 7

DENIKIN'S MARCH

; 4 — ; BRILLIANT SUCCESS OF OPERATIONS THE BIG ATTACK ON ! PETRGGRAD i By TclsEramh-Presa Association-Oopyrielit London, August. 21. Interest in the Russian operations centres for tho moment: on Detiikin's western . front. Prubably his successes will shortly bring him into touch with the left flank of the Allied troops, which i wilT'give the signal for the rising of tho wholo of the Ukraine. • ' 1 The latest, information shows that tho total number of Bolshevik troops on nil fronts is 485,000, with. 727,000 troops, ot an inferior kind in the interior. ' . The Bolsheviks havo completely devastated the villages of the Upper Hon, and the population has undergone unspeak- ' able cruelties. Children were killed m the cradles, and old people' surrounded with straw and burned, and 5000 people have been executed ill Migulinskeya and Kazanskaya.'.and .9-12:, men..were shot.in three other places. : Tho War Office confirms the Bolshevik admissions that Denikins left wing is continuing to advance brilliantly and successfully. Further to. the north lie has occupied Tcherkasy, where, the last railway in Bolshevik possession'crosses the . Dnieper. Although tho Bolshevik evacuation of Odessa is unconfirmed, there is i no doubt its fate is now. sealed, .thus Soviet. Russia will lose its last footing.on the Black Sea. — Cable Assn. RUMANIAN-UKRAINIAN PACT (Rec. August 22, 9.45 p.m.) I,ondon, August 21. The Rumanian and Ukranian Governments have reached a settlement amounting to a recognition oF-the .Ukraines independence. Each country agree.? not to fight the other.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. THE ATTACK ON PETROGRAD A COUNCIL. OF .WAR. Copenhagen, August.2o. Tho Premier of the new North-West Russian State and other leaders of tho Russian Constitutionalists are conferring in Stockholm, and lujve formulated plans for an early joint attack on Petrograd. The Grand Duke Nicholas,-will shortly arrive, but his share in the pending, operations has not been disclosed. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ■ . WAR OFFICE COMMUNIQUE. (Rcc. August 22, 9.10 p.m.) London, August 21. A War Office communique-states: Following an artillery bombardment we attacked seven miles southward, of Kapasolga, oil tho Murraan front, and drove out and pursued the enemy for sevoral miles, capturing prisoners and ipflicUng losses. Our Russian troops dispersed the enemy in'the Shunga Peninsula.. taking fifty-nine prisoners, and .also captured a village southward of Shunga. Two : enemy forces eastward of Lake Onega attempted to attack a village in our possession. They lost their direction and attacked each other, suffering severe losses.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.' SUPREME COUNCH/SMYER OF ACTION LIMITED BY AMERICA'S POLICY. . Paris, August 21. The power of action of the Supremo Council, in respect to the proposal io economically isolate 13olshevik llussia, is limited, bccause the United States does not recoirniae a 6taie of war between tho Entente Powers and "Russia, and'Tefnses to ipin in the blockade or to render help against tho .Bolshevists. —lieuter. THE TERROR IN NORTH RUSSIA T.ITEOUS APPEAL TO THE' ALLIES. Archanael, August 21. Another piteous appeal lias been issued by representatives of t the entiro population of Northern-Russia to the Allied democracies not to leave them at tho mercy of tho .Bolsheviks. In the name of justice and humanity and lor. the sake of the sanctity of . human life, it. urges/that the Allied troops should not be withdrawn and the population thus left lo massacre, starvation, and ruin. The appeal concludes:/'We to hear this cry of despair and paiu."—Aus.N.Z.' Cable Assn. - . CIVILIANS.TO BE TAKEN TO SOUTH IttJSSIA. London, August 21. . Britain has allocated ships to remove those civilians who desire to leave North Kussia before tho British troops are withdrawn. uud several thousand fnniilies will iio shipped later to South Russia, Aus.N T ./i. Cable Assn. NEW OUTBURST OF RED TERRORISM (Rec. August "2, 9.-15 p.m.) Holsingfors, August 21. fugitives from Petrograd report a _l\ed terror of unprecedented, dimensions; Peters! Chief of Internal Defenco at Petrograd, is carrying out in ass executions continuously for trivial offences. Even the possession of a telescope is punishable by death. One of Peters methods is to seize the victims during the night time, club them until they aro unconscious, and throw the .bodies info tho Noya.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable As»n.