VON DER GOLTZ & THE BALTIC STATES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 308, 24 September 1919, Page 7

VON DER GOLTZ & THE BALTIC STATES

FOCH'S THIRD ULTIMATUM

PROMISES, BUT NO FULFILMENT .■•;:■-.'

5j ToletriDh-Press Asiooifttioh^OoiyTiihl Paris, September 22. • •The Supreme Council is"discussing the | situation in the Bailie provinces and the action of von <ler Golb, whose army of a hundred thousand has refused to with- I draw. General Gougli, at tlio end of i July, handed von der 001(7, Jl.-ir.shal Foeh's tliird ultimatum ordering a total ; evacuation by the end of August, and the abandonment of all material. The Allies' visit exasperated von der Gollvwho got ' into a violent temper. General. Gough. was impassive, and repeated ' the de- j mands. Von der Gollz finally accepted .'.: the agreement, but.not the least clause .' i of it has yet been fulfilled, while' the < army continues to grow.—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo j Assi). j BALTIC STATES AND THE i BOLSHEYIKI '.; Paris, September 22. "*-- ; It is stated in Peace Conference circle* . thai the Baltic countries have agreed 1 not : to make a separate peace with the Bolsheviki without the assent- of the' Entente Powers.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ; Copenhagen, .September 21. i The Lettish Information. Bureau says , that the armistice conditions to be pre. j seated to Soviet Russia, 'by the thrco Bal- j tic States include the regulation.of tho j frontier on an ethnographic basis, the j creation, of a neutral zone in which a I neutral Tower will maintain order, and ! the surrender of tho Bolshevik ilect to ] a neutral Power.—■ Router. ■ ' j Helsingfors, September 21. j It was decided at tho Pskoff Confer- ■ once that tho Esthoman, Latvian, aiid j Lithuanian, delegates should meet the-. ; Bolshevik delegates at Yuriev in a fort- '■•-] night_to discuss pence. '' '■ ! It, is likely, that Finland may be. I forced to join, and thus tho entire i Western anti-Bolshevik policy will col- | lapse, leaving a neutral zone in which, | Germany may secure a predominant in- \ fluence in the.. Baltic region.—"The ! Times." ' ■ ''. ■ 1 KOLCIIAK'S CAMPAIGN | London, September 22. . i The Bolsheviki admit the abandon- 1 ! liientof lyjrsk and also report that Gen. J era!-'Kolchak':. has informed tho Allien ] that he has relinquished the title of I chief ruler in favour of General Deni- , i keii.—Aiis.-N.Z. Cable Assn. "" ■ ' , KOLCHAIv AGAIN .ADVANCING. : (Eec. September 23, 8.55 p.m.) Washington, September 22. According to advices received by the • Slate Department, Kolchak is advancing 'on tho whole Siberian front. A t largo anti-Bolshevik uprising in European ■■• 'Russia, from Tambov to Kozlov, is re-p-'ded. Its forces are about to..unite wTTIi General Denikeri's forces.—Aus.« .N.H.; Cable .-ten. ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION, . ■ (Rec, 'September 23, 11.15 p.m.) Moscow, September 22. .■ A wireless report states that. Kolchak has resigned the position of chief ruler ; in favour of Denikin. The assassination . of Kolchak was attempted', biit there are no details—Aiis.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ! - "■ (Rec'. September 2-1, 0.20 ;a.m.) V , London, September 22. The War Office announces that General Denikiii's successes continue. In addition .to Hie.capture of Kursk,.which is an iin- : porta lit j miction on'the Kharkov-Moscow ; railway, the volunteers are progressing on the whole, front between Kiev, and the Black Sea. Mamontov's operations behind tho Bolshevik lines continue successfully. Mamontov's anti-Bolshevik force has occupied .PensKi and Sarato'v.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ' ■, CZECH-SLOVAKS TO BE" SENT* HOME 'V ' FROM SIBERIA".": ,: Paris, September 22. j The Supreme Council has decided to- • ' repatriate • tho - • Czecho-Slovaks from : Siberia immediately.—A'us.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ' . '■'- • awful; frospectTfaces PETROGRAD .1 London; September 21. ; "Tho Times" correspondent at Helsingfors telegraphs n statement by an Englishman, Paul Dukes, who escaped'from j Petrograd on September 2, that the city : had then only n fortnight's supply of ! fuel, and no hope of getting move. A '-i ghastly.- catastrophe was inevitable. ! Wooden houses were being demolished • for fuel. Dukes Ogives awful details of j the torturing audi executions. The liar- . vest was' magnificent,-but tho scantiest ; supplies survive Urn raihva- plunderers. ■ j A truck of 'flour is worth five million j roubles.. . The- population of Petrograd, ! which is lion- 350,000,' must perish from . .} cold and famine.—"The. Times," , j RED .pVERTORESTpTffE UKRAINIANS . j (Rcc.-'Scpfcmbr: 23, 11.15 p.m.) j : -.'j ; • r Moscow, September 22. ■ -'j A Bolshevik, delegation has proposed ■ peace with'-.tho Ukrainians 011 the basis .-.! of Hie independence of the Ukraine and j conditional'on the.hitter's neutrality in ■'j tlie struggle against. Deniken and Kol- i chnk. The'delegation declared that the- 'i Moscow Government, had docided to con- ,j cludo peace with all the National Gov- ■! ernmeiitfl. in order-to crush the counterrcvolu.lioii:—lteiiter. '■-./'■ ; CHURCHILL'SIuSsTaN.POLICY A i FAILURE ."' ! London, September 22. ■ | Considerable, comment -has 'been . j nroused by the forecast - of the "Sunday ! Times" l.ha.t: lord Rotliermerc (formerly ! Mr. H.' S. Harmsworth, and brother of Lord Northcliffe) will slio'rtly be on- ! ■Irusle.d willv the War Ollioe, where Mr, Churchill has succeeded only, in adding j to hi - ; unpopularity. He is credited with j the chief responsibility, for the military ' meddling and muddling in Russia—Au6.., : N./.. Cable Assn. , . 1