DENIKIN'S GREAT ADVANCE

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 309, 25 September 1919, Page 7

DENIKIN'S GREAT ADVANCE

ONE QUARTER OF EUROPEAN' RUSSIA CONQUERED

NOW COMMANDS NEARLY

400,000 TROOPS

By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright (lice. September 25, 1.25 a.m.)London, September' 23. . It. is authoritatively, announced that General Denikin lias won about, onequarter of European Russia, with a population of thirty millions, from the Bolsheviki, and occupies the third, fourth, ami fifth greatest cities of Russia. His armies number from three to four hundred thousand—Eeuter.

GENERAL' ADVANCE BY KOLCHAFS

FORCES

v Omsk, September 23.. . Kolclutk is advancing- on all. parts- of the tront. There is fierce lighting' in the direction of Kurgan.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. i ,

THE ASSASSINATION PLOT. London, September 23. A wireless message from Moscow states thit a bomb was thrown into-the-guard-room of. tho promises occupied by Kolchak and six men wero killed and twelve injured.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

JAPANESE TO RELIEVE THE CZECHO-SLOVAKS.

Paris, September' 23. Japan will plaee troops at the Allies' disuosal to relievo the Czecho-Slovaks in Siberia.—Aus.-N.Z! Cable Assn. .

A CITY OF DREADFUL NIGHT

KIEFF UNDER THE BOLSHEVIKI. London, September 23. A i "Times" correspondent describes KiefF as a city of horrors. During tlie seven months tho Bolsheviks were in occupation they earned' out hundreds of executions a day. were' left lying in the 6treets in a horrible stiata of putrefaction, and 140 corpses of pris-, oners locked in a small apartment were ; left to rot. The walls of a garage bo- . ljind a. gloomy, tree-shaded house, used * i.as a place of execution, were pitted frith revolver'bullets, and splashed with blood. An English governess who lived nearby, was kept awake all night by awful shrieks'. The executioners, including 'a female named Rosa Schwartz, lived above . tho shambles. Their rooms Avere found V. littered with playing cards, gramophones, / and doer-eared novels.—"The Times."

ANTI-SOVIET ORGANISATION DISCOVERED

MANY EXECUTIONS IN MOSCOW. - _• Moscow, September 23. The All-Russian Commission has discovered an anti-Soviet organisation called "The National Centre," with widespread ratifications.. It is chiefly composed of "Cadets" (Constitutional Democrats) and also a few moderate Monarchists' and Mensheviki. Documents havo been found proving communication with Denikin. The Commission executed .sixtysis people, including M. Stchepkhi, an ex-member of the Duma, who was chairman of tho National Centre; Professors Astrof! and Tolkoffj Prince Obolensky, and two generals. Those still awaiting trial include .Prince Andronikoff (allegedly one of Rasputin's accomplices) and Rozamoff. a Menshevik.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.