KOLCHAK VICTORY

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 297, 11 September 1919, Page 5

KOLCHAK VICTORY

SWEEPING SUCCESSES ALONG j WHOLE FRONT RED PEACE. PROPOSALS REPORTED ! ■ I Außtrallan-New Zealand Cable Association. (Rec. September 11, 1 a.m.; ■ Paris, September 10. Admiral Kolchak reports sweeping successes on the whole Siberian front. Tho enemy, repulsed with great losses, is fleeing everywhere and abandoning prisoners, and war material— Aus.--N.Sj. Cable jVssn. BOLSHEVIK NEGOTIATIONS WITH ESTHONIA London, September 0. A wireless message from Moscow states - that the Soviet Government has accepted Bsthonia's proposal to negotiate for peace at Pskoff on September 10.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. REPORTED NEGOTIATIONS WITH LITHUANIA. (Rec. September 11, 0.15 a.m.) Paris, September 10. It is reported that peace negotiations between the Lithuanians and the Bolsheyiki are imminent.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assu. (Rec. September 11, 2 a.m.) Stockholm, September 10. It is reported that the Lithuanians havo captured Dvinsk, inflicting a severe defeat on the Bolsheviki. This explains the latter's anxiety to negotiate for peace.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. BOLSHEVIK ADVANCE CLAIMED. ! London, September 0. A Bolshevik commuuiquo claims that an advance has been made on both banks of the Dvina.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. MESSAGE TO TRAdYUnION CONGRESS "GET OL'R MEN OUT OF NORTH RUSSIA:" London, September 0. Colonel Sherwood Kelly, in a message to Trade Union Congress, says:—"Don't forgot-your brothers across the sea. You must get our men out of North Russia. Get them out quick, or it will bo wo late."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. rLieiit.-Colond Sherwood-Kelly, V.C., in a letter to the "Daily Express" said, that he volunteered for service iii North Russia .believing that by so doing ho was assisting in the withdrawal of sorelytried troops. He found tnat plana had been laid for nn ambitious campaign, the interior nature of which was kept secret. The so-called Royal Russian army was always mutinous and utterly unreliable. The puppet Government established at Archangel had no public support, and would surely fall when British protection was withdrawn.] a guhpselfthe fighting AUSTRALIAN VOLUNTEER'S STORY. (Rec. September 10, 7.25 pjn.) London, September 9. A member of the firai Australian contingent which went to North Russia has returned to England, convalescent from, a leg wound. His contingent joined the" Forty-Fifth Fusiliers' at Ossinova, on like Dwina. He describes the fighting on August 10, in which the Australians participated. The attack was a characteristically daring exploit on tho part of tho British, as the Bolsheviki ou!> numbered them tenfold. When Hie bar rage ceased, twenty cheering Diggers led the company through village after village on tho bank of the Dwina, taking fifty prisoners. There was fighting of a desperate kind in tho forest country and swamps, ill which many perished. . Jhe offensive demoralised the enemy, who fled over forty miles, leaving nineteen guns and ovei' two thousand prisoners. A senior British .officer attributed the bayontti successes to the devilish, keen spirits of tho "Aussies."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. GERMAN DOUBLWLING IN RUSSIA Stockholm, September !). Refugees are arriving in Poland from Russia in great numbers. They state that German agents in small towns have established anti-Bolshevik societies and hold meetings of a semi-public character. The Germans are therefore simultaneously officering the Bolshevik army and fighting 'the Bolsheviks and instigating civil opposition against the Bolshevik Government.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ANTI-CHINESE BOYCOTT IN MEXICO « ■ A COMPLAINT TO CHINA. New York, September 9. The Peking correspondent of the Chicago "Tribune" states that Chinese merchants in Mexico have appealed to the Chinese Government for protection. Tho. merchants 6ay that they have been compelled to discontinue industrial and business undertakings owing to anti-Chinese feeling and activities throughout Mexico--Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.