BOLSHEVIK ADVANCE

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 107, 30 January 1920, Page 7

BOLSHEVIK ADVANCE

FOLLOWING UP ALLIED RETIRED DEVELOPMENTS WEST OP BAIKAL (By Telegraph-Press Association-rCopyright London, .v.nunry 27. Mr. Wilton writes from Vladivostok: "The Bolsliuviks are superseding the social revolutionaries everywhere west of Baikal as soon as the Allied troops depart. The Czechs have been waiting their chance against Kolchak, whose regime is disliked. They attacked ■ r,nd disarmed Scuicnoff's forces sent 1.0 relievo Irkutsk. Somonoff remains at i, Chita, like a cork tossed on the waves, but has proclaimed himself "Supreme' liiilcr of Eastern Russia — "Times." JAPANESE REPULSE ATTACKS ACTING ONLY ON DEFENSIVE. ' Toltio, January 28.'' Official: Repeated linlshevik attacks in the Ussuri River reg'.en (south of Vladivostok) were all repulsed. The Japanese are content to ac: on the defensive.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn A POSSIBLE CHECK UKRAINIAN AiIMY ACTIVE. Vienna, January 28. The "Xene I'rcie Presse" states that a Ukrainian Army of 00,000 is. operating against Bolsheviks in the district of v Knmenelz and Podolsk. It is hoped that it may check the Bolshevik advance on that front.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. IN NORTH RUSSIA FINN FORCE ATTACKS FAMOUS MONASTERY. London, January 28. Advices from Arch.-.ngcl state that the North Russian Government lias issued a communique announcing that 2000 Finns, with machine-guns, and horse raid reindeer transport, are attacking the famous monastery at Petchenga, with tho evident intention of looting tho groat treasures housed there. The inhabitants of the neighbouring 'villages are fleeing panic-stricken.—Renter. Yfaifcirs" TROOPS (Reo. January 29. 5.5 p.m.) > London, January 24. It is reported from Copenhagen that spotted typhus is raging in Esthonia, causing 6300 of Yudenitch's troops to re- . tarn to Russia Others have gone to the - Lettish' front.-A.u3.-:>.*!. Cable Assn. MR CIIURCIIiJdVS - SUGGESTION NATIONS OF WORLD SHOULD EXPEL BOLSHEVIKS. (R*c. January 29, 8 p.m.) London, January 24. Mr. Winston Churchill, in an article in tho "Sunday Herald," suggests that the ' nations of tho world should expel the. Bolsheviks. He says they ought to be' collected, confined in a separate, area of the" earth's surface, and left to practice their diseased theories at each others expense. They ought to bo-deprived of the liberty to assassinate princes, starve tho middlo classes, and exploit tho toiling millions—United Service.