SIGNS OF REVOLT IN RUSSIA

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 7, 4 October 1920, Page 5

SIGNS OF REVOLT IN RUSSIA

OUTBREAK OF RIOTS AND STRIKES DUE TO FOOD SHORTAGE AND -WAR WEARINESS By Telerraph—Prej« Association—CoDFTlglit (Riec. October 3, 5.5 p.m.) Helsingfors, October 2. An outbreak of riots and strikes is reported in Petrogrod, .Tambov, Nam, and other parts of Stasia, owing to food shortage and war weariness. There have bepn many street conflicts, in which it is reported that several-Soviet: commissaries were shot or beaten to death. Signs of revolt have appeared among the" Jinnies on the western front. It is reported that twelve committeemen sent to Moscow from the fighting front, demanding pi>ace, were executed. It is rumoured that Trotsky hns been wounded—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn.

BRILLIANT CAPTURE BY POLES PINSK AND SLONIII TAKEN. (Eec. October 2, 5.5 p.m.) ' Warsaw, October 1. Thja -Poles have captured Slonim and Pinsk, and the Beds are rapidly retreat intr in the direction of Moloaetchno. The capture of Pinsk is most important. It was a brilliant affair. The Poles caught practically the whole of . the headquarters 6tatf of the Fourth Red Army.—"The Times." I (Reo. October i, 0.50 a.m.) ' London, October 2. 'A Warsaw communique states-. AVo ftro continuing the pursuit of the Bolsheviks beaten at Lida. The Second Polish Army baa taken thirty thousand prisoners and one hundred puns. All action has been suspended in the region or Suwalki as the result of the agreement reached with Lithuania.—Reuter. WRANGEL'S OPERATIONS BOLSHEVIK DIVISIONS DESTHOYED. ' ' v (Reo. October 4, 0.50 a.m.) London, October 2. A Wr angel communique states: We completely destroyed several Bolshevik divisions in the region of Alexandrovsk, and surrounded Eed forces in tho neighbourhood of Vethoyetzk and Crishoikof, capturing ten thousand prisoners and mi enormous amount of war material.— Reuter. THE NEGOTIATIONS AT RIGA ' AN UNFAVOURABLE TURN. (R«c. October 3, 11.5 p.m.) Warsaw,, October 2. The negotiations at Riaihavo taken an unfavourable turn. Joffe, hc»d .of t-he Boviot delegation, has made moro stringent demands and declines on strategic grounds to cede Vilna and Grodno to' Poland, and claims Volhynia eastward of tlio Bug, for Russia.—Aus.-NiZ. Cablo Assn.