BOLSHEVIK GAINS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 115, 9 February 1920, Page 5

BOLSHEVIK GAINS

OPERATIONS SURVEYED

HEAVY FIGHTING REPORTED

FROM CRIMEA

AN ADVANCE ON INDIA

(By Telegraph-PrcES Association-Copyright (Rec. February 8, 5.5 p.m.) London, February 7. A War Office communique states:—ln the neighbourhood of the Tsaritsin-Eka-tirinodar railway tho Bolsheviks obtained a footing on tho south bank of the Manich. Six attempts to crosa elsewhere were repulsed. Between January 2S and .11 Denikin's troops on this front captured nine guns, 2GO machine-guns, and 4000 prisoners. The Bolsheviks occupied the Isthmuses of Perekop and Chongar, leading to tho Crimea, after heavy fighting, but were repulsed betorc the defiles, losing COO prisoners. The Bolsheviks continue to advance in the Odessa area.—Aus.-N.Z. G'ablo Assn.Reuter, London, February 5. It is semi-officiallv stated that the Bolsheviks are still fifty miles from Odessa. Tho North Crimea volunteers apparently maintain their hold upon the Isthmuses of Perekop and Chongar, which are easily defensible. The Cossacks have taken largo numbers of prisoners and four guns in fighting on Manitos. The social revolutionaries at Irkutsk wero overthrown bv the Bolsheviks without a conflict, nnd wero replaced by a Soviet Committee. Practically all tho coastal area around Vladivostok has gone "Red," and it is only a question of time before the movement spreads to the whole of tho Amur and Usuria. districts.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-Reuter.

RED FORCE DEFEATED

DRIVEN BACK WITH HEAVY LOSS. (Rec. February S, It p.m.) London, February 6. The British Military .Mission to South Russia reports that the Bolsheviks were completely defeated in attempts to force the line of the Don and Manitsh Rivers. A Red cavalry corps crossed near the river mouth, but we're driven hack with heavy loss. During their retreat tho ice on tho river broke. Many Reds wero drowned, and a large number of guns and wagons were lost. r f he remnants of the forec fled northwards. In tho Caucasus tho volunteer armies of Bolshevists were heavily defeated. The total captures hitherto counted in these operations amount to SOOO prisoners, in guns, and 3-10 machine-guns.-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. CAPTURE OF VLADIVOSTOK AMERICAN FORCE INTERVENES. (Rec. February 8, 5.5 p.m.) New York, February 7. When the. Bolsheviks captured Vladivostok, the headquarters of General Rozanoff, commander of the maritime provinces, were endangered. Tho Japaneso sought to prevent a Bolshevik attack, but Americans' intervened against the Japanese. General Rozauoff finally took refuge on a Japanese warship.—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn.

SOVIETS' OVERTHROW PREDICTED (Rec. February !). 0.10 a.m.) New York, February G. Major Lasies, a member of the French Hi»h Commission to the IColchalt Government, who is on route irom Vladivostok to France, predicts the overthrow of the Russian Soviet Government within a few months. Ho said that, despite recent military and diplomatic achievements, Siberia is not controlled by the Soviets, but by their opponents—Aus.N.Z. Cablo Assn. CAMPAIGN AGAINST INDIA PRELIMINARY WORK IN HAND(Rec. February 8, 5.5 p.m.) New Ynrif. TVVirtiarv 7 The Washington correspondent iff the "New York Times" states that lie has received information to the effect that the Bolsheviks in Turkestan e.re recruiting natives and war prisoners into new units and establishing a military basis, said in be preliminary to a campaign agamst India—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn.