BOLSHEVIK RUSSIA

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 195, 13 May 1920, Page 5

BOLSHEVIK RUSSIA

THE POLISH OFFENSIVE j WIRELESS REPORTS STOPPED I (By Telegraph-Proas Assoclatlon-Oopyrlfflit j Paris,. May 11. 1 During the last thirty-six hours, no i wireless message from Moscow, has been ( intercepted by the Eiffel Tower, which j usually receives such messages every t two hours.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. t PEACE CONCLUDED WITH GEORGIA j Helsingfors, May 11. A Bolshevik wireless message states that peace has been concluded between Russia and Georgia. Tho Soviet agrees not to interfere in the internal affairs of Georgia—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. _ 1 TThe Republic of Georgia is the. die- j trioi in tne extreme south of. Russia, ■ between the Black Sea and the Caspian I Sea Its southern border runs east from just South of Batoum, and the - northern runs frtm a point about halfway between Gatoum and the Sea of Azov. It terminates on the east at Nuka, 150 miles north-west of Baku (on the Caspian Sea.) Tiflis is the chief 1 city- of Georgia.") ; JAPAN AND BOLSHEVIK SIBERIA : PEACE NEGOTIATIONS BEGUN. Washington, May 11. Japan has begun to make peace with Bolshevik Siberia. An arrangement has. been concluded providing for the withdrawal 'of 20,000 Japanese troops from Vladivostok, and this may pave the .way to a complete Japanese evacuation of Siberia—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. BUFFER STATE FORESHADOWED SEMI-OFFICIAL REPORT FROM VLADIVOSTOK. Tokio, May 11. A semi-official report from Vladivostok states that the Provisional Government has issued a statement - foreshadowing the establishment of a buffer State. ;It says that connection with and unity under European Russia aro impossible ■ at present; therefore an autonomous administration is necessary. It will inolude tho establishment of an army and navy and civil courts, and will recognise foreign treaties, and encourage foreign trade, especially-by \ way of barter.—Router. 1 ALLIED WARSinPSjN BLACK SEA TO CONTINUE BOMBARDMENT OF COASTS. London, May 10. Replying to Major Barnes, Mr. Walter Long (First Lord of tho Admiralty) said in the House of Commons thqt the Allied warships in the' Black Sea will continue to bombard the Russian coasts until the Bolsheviks cease hostilities with Wrangel's Crimean army, in order to discuss an amistice.—Aus.N.Z Cable Assn. ADRIFT iIARA SEA BRITISH ICE-BREAKER TO GO TO RESCUE. (Rec: May 13, 0.35 p.m.) London, May 12. The British ice-breaker Sviatogor is hurriedly preparing at Bergen to rescue the Solovei, which is'drifting westwards in the Kara Sea. The Sviatogor has recently been breaking up the boom pro- . teoting the harbour at Scapa Flow. Each ■ hurdle weighed' eighty tons. The Sviatogor hurled herself against the barrier 1 for two months until it was demolished. The crew of the Solovei abandoned the ; effort to reach the land, awaiting the exi pected rescue before the ico melts. Other- , wise their position will be desperate,— [ Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.