BOLSHEVIK WAR

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 79, 29 December 1919, Page 5

BOLSHEVIK WAR

DECISIVE OPERATIONS IN SOUTH RUSSIA O REDS NEARING END OF RESOURCES (By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright London, December 24. There are indication.- tlrat decisive operations have begun in South Denikin's wireless reports state (lint the L'olsheviki have brought up reinforcements, amounting' to nearly forty infantry and seven cavalry divisions, from the Siberian and northern fronls, with a view to crushing the anti-Bolsheviki. Denikin claims that be has repulsed the first shock, inflicting enormous . losses. British officers who have recently arrived from Russia stale that the Bolshovilci realise that they arc nearing the end of their resources, and are now making their last despairing effort,— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

KOLCHAK'S army in danger

(Rec. December 2S, 5.5 p.m.)

Paris, December 27. The .Revolutionary Socialists have captured Irkutsk, and Kolchnk's army is endangered.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. THE REDS' ADVANCE IN SIBERIA JAPANESE OVERTURES TO UNITED STATES. (Rec-. December 2S, 5.5 p.m.) New York, December 21. A Washington message states that the Japanese troops guarding the Siberian railways have been subjected to so many Bolshevik raids that they will be compelled to withdraw unless rcinfor-.'ed. The Japaneso Ambassador, Mr. Sliidehara, has been ebnferring' with Mr. Lansing (Secretary cf State) concerning the situation. According to the State Department, Japan and the. United States have iwt concluded any agreement, The Japanese are making overtures to the United Slates with a view to prevent'ng the Bolshevik advance—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn. FURIOUS ATTACKS BY REDS UNUSUAL ACTIVITY OVER ENTIRE FRONT. (Rec. December 28, 11.-15 p.m.) Copanhagen, December 2G. There are reports of unusual Bolslicvik nctivity over the entire front, with furious attacks at various points. -It is reported from Reval that tho Bolsheviki are receiving reinforcements from Narvato and l'skofT. Fifty-six Bolshevik regiments attacked Narva with little result, 20 per cent, of the shells failing to explode. Riga reports state that strong Bolshevik forces opened an offensive on fclie Lipno River. All tho attacks wero heavily repulsed.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

BOLSHEVIK OUTRAGES ON WOMEN A TERRIBLE REPORT. London, December 21. The Russian Committee which is invostignling Bolshevik outrages in Ekaterinodar, northern Caucasia, states that the Soviet ordered tile women of tho town from sixteen to twenty-live years of ago lo be mado public properly. The scheme was due to Trotsky, who. has now Ksued authorisations which enabled Soviet oliiec'f's to veize sixty of the prettiest women and some school girls, who were immediately raped by the soldiers. Some were flung into the River Kalusiin after "horrible sufferings and tortures. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Ass'n.