SOVIET RUSSIA

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 200, 19 May 1920, Page 7

SOVIET RUSSIA

SENDING OF MISSION OF INQUIRY TO BE DISCUSSED BY LEAGUE COUNCIL By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright (Rec. May IS, 11.15 p.m.) London, May 17. Replying to Captain Wedgwood Bonn, 1 in the House of Commons, Mr. Bonar Law stated that the Council of the League of Nations, sitting nt Home, would disouss the question of sending a mission of inquiry to Soviet Russia.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-Router. PROPAGANDISTS AGAINST SOVIETS PRISONERS FED BY POLES AND RELEASED, (Rec. May 18, 5.5 p.m.) Warsaw, May 17. The Pole 9 are feeding prisoners and releasing them. Prisoners are being provided with handbills. Thirty thousand who have been freed have become propagandists against tho Soviets. There is no fear that they will light again.-"The Times." BOLSHEVIK ADVANCeIn,,KIEFF REGION , (Rec. May 18, 5.5 p.m.) . , London, May 17. A .Bolshevik wireless states ■. "We have . started to advance in the ICieff region, ■ and fighting is miles northeastward of the town."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable •Asn. ' MOSCOW SILENCE DUE TO EIRE. (Rec. May 19, 0.5 a.m.) London, May 17. The Moscow wireless silence wasidue to a great fire in' the ammunition depot, which seriously threatened the station.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. EVACUATION "ofToVOROSSISK last of the romanoffs to leave Russia; (Rec. May 19, 0.5 ! a.m.) .London, May 17. T.he "Daily ■ Chronicle's" Constantinople correspondent describes' the evacuation of Novorossisi, where 10,000 people had been living in railway trucks and others were herded ten in a room, in shops and offices, with typhus raging. Among the' dea are' Prince Enjrcno Trnbotskoy, the wellknown philosopher, who just before his death said: "For the first time in my life I cannot see the npxt step." Among the last refugees to depart was a lone woman, Bimply dressed, undisting>uishable from other wretched refugees, who watched the fading land with -peculiar intensity. She was, the Grand Duchess Olga, youngest sister of ihe Tsar, and last of the Romanoffs to leave Russia.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ANGLO-RUSSIAN TRADE GUARANTEES demanded by ' (Rec. May 18, 11.15 p.m.) London, May 18. ■Bolshevist trade delegates now in London are attempting to' revive Anglo-Rus-sian trade relations, but declare their inability to give gunrautees. whereas the British Government is insisting on the strictest guarantees for the protection of British traders.—United Service. TSARIST DIPLOMATS" AND CONSULS ' Banishment from china requested. (Rec. May 18, 11.10 p.m.l Peking, May 18. The Soviet authorities at Irkutsk have asked the Chinese Government to banish from China all diplomats and consuls of the Tsarist Russian Government.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn., , < •,