RED WAR IN RUSSIA

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 141, 10 March 1920, Page 7

RED WAR IN RUSSIA

' TRIBUTE TO KOLCHAK ALLIES CHARGED WITH TREACHERY (By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright London, March 3. Colonel Ward, speaking in the City, said that Kolchnk was a clean-souled Russian patriot. Tho Allies persuaded him to accent the task of establishing a stable Government, but finally deserted him. The French Commander-in-Chie! actually surrendered Kolchak to his enemies in the middle of the night, and within nn hour Kolchak was destroyed i.i a back vard. When the Allies changed their policy towards the. Bolsheviks thev were not compelled to go to the leucth of absolute treachery—Aus.-N./j. Cable Assn. BRUTAL BOLSHEVIK RULERS MAXIM GORKY DISAPPOINTED. Helsinpfors, March i. Mttxiiu Gorky has published an article in the newspaper "Democrat," expressing disappointment in the Bolshevik rule. The revolution, ha Says, has not been followed bv intellectual regeneration, and the new rulers are as brutal as their Dredecessors.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. COMMISSION OF INVESTIGATION TO BE APPOINTED BY LEAGUE OF NATIONS COUNCIL. • Paris, March' 8. in enmgency meeting of the Council of the League of Nations has been convened at Paris next week, to appoint u Commission of Investigation in Russia.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. GERMAN • COMMISSION TO STUDY ECONOMIC SITUATION. ' Berlin, March 8. The Foreicn Affairs Committee of the National Assembly ha 6 approved sending a Commission to Russia to study the economic situation.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. SOVIET PEACE OFFER TO JAPAN Tokio, March 7. It is reported that the Soviet has made a peace offer, to Japan. It promises recognition of Japan's special position in the Far East, and the cessation of Bolshevik propaganda in Japan.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. KUBAN CORPS JOINS BOLSHEVIKS BRITISH GENERAL TAKEN PRISONER. Constantinople, March 4. It is reported that the Third Kuban Corps has joined the Bolsheviks, and seized Ekaterinodar, taking prisoner the British General Holman, head of the Military Mission with General Denikin. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable. Assn. . v SOVIET CONSPIRACY . TO START REVOLUTION IN UNITED STATES. N.ow York, March 4. Documents in the hands of the Senate Committee reveal a Soviet conspiracy to start, a Bolshevik revolution in the United States. A Soviet courier was arrested. • and diamonds valued at three million roubles were discovered hidden in the false bottom of a valise, along with compromising documents.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable A.6sn.