OUTLOOK IN NORTH RUSSIA

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 293, 6 September 1919, Page 7

OUTLOOK IN NORTH RUSSIA

6—. BRITISH PLANS FOR THE EVACUATION denikin's Campaign t " By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, Kept ember 4. The British troops in North Russia will lie evacuated beioro tho ico blocks tho . route. Some misconception exists over tho evacuation. Tho policy is not beinsr hastened, because tho Government dfisires to do tho utmost posible to cnalilo tho residents to resist the Bolshevik advance bv inflicting the maximum dam- . ace o,u tho enemy. A tliirtv-dav armistice, has been arranged between the Poles and Ukrainians, subject, to abrogation at five days' notice. It is nrobable that Demkin has already cained a footing in Kielf. His advance towards Kursk has received a severe check, although the Bolsheviks have not , broken through. Reports from Transcasoia state that the Bolsheviks were severelv defeated near Ivoliata, suffering 700 casualties, and are new withdrawing towards Merv. —Aus.-N.!-'. Cable Assn. (Rec. September 5, 11.10 p.m.) London, Scpte/.ber 4. Official.—"General Denikin has occupied ICieff after two days' Heavy fight- . ing."—Ans.-N.Z. Cablo Assn. ; RED ATROCIfiES~!NQtIIRED INTO ' REPULSIVE DISCLOSURES, i London, September •!•. Tlis Munich correspondent of "The Times" states that a Court is investigat- ]. ine the'murders and outrages committed unon host«;ii(i under Soviet rule, and there have been repulsive disclosures. Twentv-hvo people were -confined in a small room with no windows. AVheu thev comnlained of the miserable, conditions thev wero told ii; was superfluous to i complain, as lliey would be "marched i i round tho corner to-morrow.". The order condemning them to be. shot wits endorsed on the back. "Pick out the finest.') The. violation of the. Countess Westarji (who was executed) prior to her trial was admitted.—'"The Times." MURDERS AT PSKOPP. (Rec. September a, 5.5 p.m.) Copenhanen, September •). A > refugee states that tho Bolslieviki on entering Pskolf murdered 250 men and women—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.