THE BOLSHEVIK WAR

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 139, 8 March 1920, Page 7

THE BOLSHEVIK WAR

DENIKIN'S ARMY ENCIRCLED JAPAN ABANDONS SIBERIAN EXPEDITION (By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright ! (Rec. March 8, 0.35 a.m.) j London, March 3. A Bolshevik wireless message reports < that the Reds took prisoner or killed the i entire first Kuban Corps on the Caucasus front. Denikin's anny is now encircled. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. !

SITUATIONJNJHE SOUTH BOLSHEVIKS DRIVEN BACK IN ' THREE AREAS. .! London, March 5. T ; lie War Office report on the situation in South Russia records that the 80l- | slioviks have been driven back in three .; nrenb. The latest information indicates j that the reported occupation of Tikhoret- 1 6kava is incorrect. Denikin still holds the important lateral railway of Rostov- ; Geomievoo-Petrovsk. He is withdrawing his line south of Rostov without being molested—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-Reuter. REDS EXPECTED TO LOSE SEBASTOPOL. London, March 2. ; The early* fall of Bolshevik Sebastopol is expected.—Renter. BUFFER AGAINSTIOLSHEYISM JAPAN CONTEMPLATES SEMIAUTONOMOUS STATE. Washinnton, March 5. It is understood that the Japanese policy contemplates the establishment of a j semi-autonomous State in Siberia, with n view to the erection of a buffer against I Bolshevism.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. , j JAPANESE IN SIBERIA j EXPEDITION TO BE ABANDONED. -I ' (Rec. March 7, 11.30 p,.m.) t ; Honolulu, March 6. j According to a dispatch from Tokio, i Japan has decided to abandon the Siberian expedition. The first contingent of Japanese troops 'will leave Vladivostok j on March 20.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. J